Ok so this was an amazing weekend! Superbly amazing, in fact.

so, even  though the weather was horrible on Friday with flood warnings and everything (like legit floods tho, I mean the water on the highways were mid tire deep in places and certain parts of the major deegan expressway literlly looked liked a pond had relocated itself smack in the middle of the highway)  Friday kicked off the weekend with a bang because I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna which was pretty awesome.

First, no one executes their routines as flawlessly and seamlessly as CDS like seriously.There is NO LAG TiME at all between performances and the choreography is spot on. All the performers are so fluid in their acts they make it seem so easy but we all know that is far from the truth. I mean, seriously the amount of control in their muscles is unbelievable. Like take the parallel/uneven bars chicks. Their arms (whic were HUGE BTW) do not so much as tremble when they execute their jumps and swings. The couple on the strings (sorry, don’t know the technical names lol but basically is like a string with a small loop in which the performers hook ONE arm in and then proceed to fly across the arena, I know, pretty tight!) as so strong and steady that when they go up supporting their entire body weight on one arm, mind you, they dont even break a sweat. And this is really,really hard stuff. It is literally what the gymnasts does  on the rings in the Olympics except its dancing combined with gymnastics plus they are about 30ft above the floor. AND the gymnasts that I’ve seen always seem to tremble and shake while trying to keep their bodies straight, not that I’m hating on gymnasts (ok, maybe I am, just a little) but still. At least you dont have to support another person’s weight too.

My fav performance was the entire sequence with the aerial lyra, followed by the water bowl, I mean it was all so pretty with the blue ambiance lighting and the twinkly music. Besides I’m a little biased as I”m obsessed with the aerial lyra, ask my sisters, they will confirm lol. But really though, is there anything more lovely than a strong, slender woman dancing and contorting around a suspended hoop? Yeah, I’d be pretty hard pressed to find nd answer as well. but man she’s good, she was able to support her weight with a one arm hang in arched cupids position-waaay cool. flexibility is always very appreciated as well, I/mean can you even fathom doing a head-sit? I can’t even touch my head with my toes, not to mention with my behind lol

Oh and Miranda’s wonderful, wonderful waterbowl contortion act which was mainly inversions-again very cool. AAAAnd guess what? ONE HANDED inversions at that too!!! OMG! I just learned how to do a supported 3 point headstand lol, one handed inversion contortions with position changes are just cray! Miranda was a beast!

And then, lovely Romeo appears with his lovely white french dress shirt what he mercifully removes!! swoon! No joke this guys is built like a marvel comic character! And wow in the blue ambiant lighting with the spotlight hitting them just so, you could see every little perfect muscle, like all the fine muscles in the obliques and his strong latissimus dorsi and all the small muscles in the shoulders and arms, GIGANTIC PECS!! All the ladies were going wild!! Lol And the way he and Miranda see each other, from both sides of the water bowl, like in the Leo Di Caprio/Clair Danes Romeo and Juliet movie first look scene except Miranda was actually in the tank lol The actors actaully looked really in love I was just in awe of the beauty of the whole scene! And then they have like this little moment and I swear I would have fallen in love with  Romeo if I was Miranda too, what with his boyish good looks, his darling hair, amazing body and really sweet actions!! OMGOMGOMG!

And then these fierce Amazon chicks and the cast-a-way boys come on and its pretty amazing. Like all these parallel bars and uneven bar and OMG I can’t even do a single pull up correctly and these chicks are like beasting it, like better than any Olympic gymnasts lol I couldnt wait for intermission to be over with so we could go back to this incredible show!

Then they had this teeterboard act with the lost boys and once again, amazing. They make it look so easy but imagine the strenght and precision it would take to make those jumps, do those somersaults and whatnot and then fall back down precisely on the right spot so’s to launch the other guy into his jump. Wow. Amazing. Then there was a spot of dancing which honestly I didn’t caare much for but maybe if we were sitting more head on we’d have seen what was going on and enjoyed it better.  Oh yeah! There was also this balancing act that had us all holding or breath but once again, you have to be there to see it, feel the heavy silence and tension in the whole arena as thus skinny little asian lady balances like 20 huge sticks on each other!! CRAY!

And then beautiful Romeo is back again for his wonderful Chinese pole act which again is incredible as it takes an almost inhuman strength and control to  just be able to climb a pole with just your hands, trust me, its a workout trying to climb a pole with your whole body. then he does all these tricks and inversions and dead drops HEAD DOWN! Man, this guy’s got guts!

Thena juggling act by the human lizard which was pretty cool, then another aerial performance by the Valkyries which were these three chicks that totally rocked the string-thingy- wow, no words could describe how thrilled i was, and man, the caliber of their tricks was just unbelievable!  The show then ended with a grand finale and while I was sad it was over, it was just so immensely satisfying, it felt like I was hit with an awesome tsunami. It was THAT great.

Couple things I didn’t care for however:

-the music: it was too loud that my ears hurt at times, and honestly it didn’t even match the acts sometimes with them playing like heavy metal for a beautiful flowly performance which would have been better in my opnion had it been accompanied by orchestra music but that might be just me as I dont really like heavy metal like guitar AT ALL. And the singing was sometimes so god-awful I had to put my hands over my ears and once I think I said “shut up, stop singing” lol

-There was a scene with Deeda the nanny of Miranda and the captain of Romeo and the lost boys having kids and I was like, really? I cant imagine what some parents thought.

-Lizard man kinda freaked me out sometimes, like really does he like Miranda or something? because if he does that just gives me the heebie jeebies its so wrong on so many levels.

And that’s about it, I pretty much loved the entire thing! i can’t wait to go to another CDS show! if you have an opportunity to watch AMALUNA, do so immediately. I loved it and my sisters loved it and we wanted it to go on forever we actually bought the photo book and DVD and watched it again on Saturday night as we did our nails and got ready for the Korean Special Assembly Day (last one ever in Korean :()

That’s about it,  I’m going to bed now. Please excuse my horrible typing, I had fake nails on and I can’t be bothered to type perfectly and besides this IPAD mini keyboard is so tiny, I’d mess up a lot anyways. lol

well w/e.

Good night!! 🙂