{"id":145,"date":"2006-07-17T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/07\/17\/went-to-see-the-new-cirque-du-soleil-show-last-night\/"},"modified":"2006-07-17T05:25:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T05:25:21","slug":"went-to-see-the-new-cirque-du-soleil-show-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/07\/17\/went-to-see-the-new-cirque-du-soleil-show-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Went to see the new Cirque du Soleil show last night!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aviva and I try to make the new Cirque du Soleil shows when they come to Chicago; we got hooked over six years
\nago.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Corteo was a bit different – the acrobatics were a little less over the top, there was more dancing, the usual helping of
\ncomedy (but perhaps a little less going out into the audience), and more music and show. There was a modern dance segment that had just enough physicality to fit in, and there was a playing of a Mozart piece on mouth whistle, violin and glass orchestra – the glass orchestra consisted of large glass bowls that could be struck or made to sing with wood mallets run around the rim, and a fellow that played crystal glasses filled with water, the water level setting the pitch (this reminded me of my youth – my father and I would occasionally test the crystal at a restaurant by wetting our fingers and running them lightly around the rim of the glass, the friction making the glass “sing” much like a violin
\nbow causes the string to vibrate – my mother hated when we did that!). The second half opened with a trampoline \/
\nnet that crossed the stage and people bouncing \/ walking across it – very neat.\u00c2\u00a0 That led into my favorite scene – above the stage, people were tossed between platforms as if it was a trapeze act, without the trapeze – very cool!<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m glad we went – it was lots of fun as all their shows are. You can click here to go to the official web site for
\nCorteo.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Aviva and I try to make the new Cirque du Soleil shows when they come to Chicago; we got hooked over six years ago. Corteo was a bit different – the acrobatics were a little less over the top, there was more dancing, the usual helping of comedy (but perhaps a little less going out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[34,37,41],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-chicago","tag-cirque-du-soleil","tag-corteo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t