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Its not just like I meet the performers backstage, oh, let me tell you some crazy shit that went down. This and that performer did this and that and oh, let me tell you something else.. at this moment, I know how lucky I am to get a chance to tour backstage and all, but Varekai -- its Varekai the show, pure and simple, that is leaving me breathless. What the performers produced on stage is magic. I can not .. I can't write enough about it. The magic of the show is just...
I cried when Icarus fell. Isbelle is my new hero, because her verison of Vocea, while nothing like Zara's, was amazing. It was moving..oprea like. It was stirring and my eyes...just watered up. And Anton -- he was amazing. So graceful. I couldn't stop crying. Irina is my new hero as well, because the coldness that Olga gave off during her Varekai performance was gone. Irina didn't appear to be taunting Icarus. She was loving, warm and gentle. She took his hand in hers and helped him up from the floor. In that moment, there was such a love that the two gave off. It was so touching. During the revised Cloud scene, when both Irina and Icarus hold onto the balloon as if its their only way of escape.. their faces were so hopeful..it was something beautiful to see. I never understood what people meant when they said, seeing it on DVD and seeing it live is something different. Now I know. No camera could catch everything that happened on stage, all at once. Valentin coping every one of the Skywatcher's movements, the way Maxim jumped from pole to pole and then laughed as it was nothing, I felt like I was in a different world, all together.There is no feeling that can quite describe it. I'm in shock. I feel like I want to go out in that world and do something beauitful. To preserve some sort of magic in a world that's too quickly forgetting how to laugh and see the beauty of everything. They say Cirque tests the limits of the human body..I want to say it tests the limits of the human soul. How can you see a show like this and not be moved? I'm crying now, just thinking about how much joy Cirque has given me. I can't talk right..and I don't think I'll ever feel the same way about any other show then Varekai. It was the show that got me hooked on Cirque, it was the show that is leaving me breathless and in awe right now, at home surrounded by ordinary things. I see magic in everything. Cirque inspires me to see it.
I can't...I'm in shock.
Andrew said he never gets enough of meeting fans. He's sad he never meets all the fans out there. And I instantly replied, So how can we thank you for such a show? and he gave me the biggest smile. I will someday, go back to the artistic tent and tell each and every performer I see how amazing they are and what their amazing talents give us. The belief, for me anyway, that magic does exist. I will someday tell every performer that. I promised myself, as a small thank you for a gift that's so greatly layered and amazing -- I'm still in shock.
I shall write more about the show, like reviews about each act tomorrow when I'm not crying out of joy. And of coruse, backstage! :-D
~Kim