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Do you prefer old circus or new? Reviewing the circus-cabaret-burlesque hybrid La Soiree - now in its tenth season in a Speigeltent on London's Southbank - the Guardian's Michael Billington found himself missing the older style of circus:
"I loved the show’s more daring physical acts. But, although people deride the old-style circus for its exploitation of animals and variety theatre for its tat, they both had a poetry and grace somewhat lacking in this frenetically kaleidoscopic spectacle."
Could it be that 24 years after Cirque du Soleil first visited London, the new is wearing off new circus and the pendulum of taste is swinging back to the traditional sawdust ring?
Read the Guardian's review here.
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One thing for sure the older circus had more of was VARIETY.
ReplyDeleteI do think, from here in the U.S. Cirque du Soleil has lost some of its edge, with a weakening of quality of acts and increasing allusions to narrative and abstract body movement, all of which tend towards an air of desperation. The new CDS show Kurios is said by some to reverse the downward trend. In time, though, the public may well come to appreciate what has been lost, not least of which animal acts. It is a story in progress.