{"id":1091,"date":"2012-12-08T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T23:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teresamisu.notigo.net\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:41:31","slug":"advent-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terezaschoice.com\/en\/blog\/advent-in-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we are back in Vienna. This time for a different cause… Cirque du Soleil – Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour<\/strong>!!! Not only do they have the best circus shows (without animals of course, only acrobats), but they dedicated the whole show to Michael Jackson! I have been waiting for this tour to come to Europe for so long. First it was said that they will tour only through USA, but when I saw them coming to Vienna I got a minor panic attack.<\/p>\n

Ticket were bought and we were heading via Vienna. While driving I was trying to describe to my friend\u00a0how awesome these acrobats\/dancers are, and that every second of the whole show is so precise and so special. But this show cannot be described, I don’t understand which director has such an imagination and where do all these talented people come from???<\/p>\n

When I first saw their circus I was very young, but still vividly remember everything, so like a little girl I couldn’t wait to see them again. Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian acrobatic, theatrical-illusion company, with 219 crew members in 37 trucks hauling sets, costumes, LED screens and animatronics. Since the provocatively titled Immortal<\/em> show opened in Montreal in October, it has become the highest-earning live show in the US, taking more than $100 million in ticket sales. Dancers, choreographers, musicians were all originally planned for the This is it<\/strong> tour with Michael Jackson<\/strong>, but sadly Michael was taken away and the future was obvious – a tour dedicated to him, with all his crew, but without Michael.<\/p>\n

The whole show I was clapping, cheering, crying, smiling… It was a surreal emotional roller coaster. It was a over-the-top pop extravaganza ever staged for me. Dancing robots do gladiatorial battle; a pole dancer that looks like a one big muscle and contorts herself erotically 30 feet in the air; a pair of giant black-and-white shoes tap dance with a man-sized sequined glove; a DJ in a monkey suit that makes a grand entry; and a green monster that moves like an bubblegum on a giant book while almost 60 dancers, acrobats, aerialists and contortionists strut their stuff to a 10-piece band playing totally precise recreations of the star\u2019s hits.<\/p>\n

Just when you thought the Michael Jackson<\/strong> story couldn\u2019t get any stranger, the circus<\/strong> moves in.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos from Vienna, of course I couldn’t take my super duper camera to the concert so I can only offer you a nice short video of the tour.<\/p>\n

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Photographer \u017diga Zupan\u010di\u010d<\/a> \u2013 ziga.zup@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n