So. I'm running off to join the circus

Well, hopefully; a few months ago, I sent an audition video to cirque du soleil showcasing my gymnastics, juggling, and music.

Now, after viewing my video, they want me to come to live acrobatic auditions oct 31.

Joining cirque is my lifelong dream. Wish me luck :smiley:

WOW! Good luck! :boggle:

Yes! The best of luck to you! Enjoy your experience, too!

I’m impressed!

I didn’t know we had such acrobatically-talented people in NC!
Best of luck! I love cirque, but they need more jugglers…

Wow!

My daughter and her husband saw that in Vegas back in the spring and were properly ā€œwowedā€ by the whole thing.

Hey! Another Raleighite!

Wow! Best of luck!

BTW-- I’m a juggler too (fair 3-ball, bit of 4-ball, devil stick, cigar box)..
Wonder how many we have here?

Give 'em hell!

3 Ball for me.

Geoffrey, the best of luck to you!!! I wanted to join the circus as a kid, I think a lot of boys did, and now you’re just that much closer. :party:

Cirque du Soleil is perhaps the single greatest live performance troupe I have had the pleasure to see. They are also pretty demanding, so to get an audition invite says something positive about your abilities. Very cool dude, very, very cool!!! :thumbsup:

Cirque invites the best from around the world. You don’t have to, but it wouldn’t hurt to brush up on your French. I was born into the circus, but fortunately escaped, and was able to run away and join the real world. :boggle:

djm

Only the best for the Cirque…best of luck.

Slan,
D.

Blinking flip! Not just join A circus - join THE circus!

Yeah, I do three-ball juggle, four on a good day. Unicycle, Stilt-walking.
At the age of fifty (-ahem!) I’m out of practice. I am possible the worst Stilt-walker in the Northern Hemisphere. I can tell you which lampposts are safe to hang on to and which not. Once you get above six-feet high, you learn just exactly how delicate and wobbly some lampposts are.

Well done! I hope it all goes well!

My record’s 9 balls, though I’m way out of practice. Given enough time to warm up, I bet I could still get 7 going pretty well.

But gymnastics is what they’ve invited me to audition for; they specified that these are acrobatic auditions. I’m pretty optimistic; they think they might want me based on what I did in my audition video, and I’ve gotten 10x better since then.

That’s great! Best of luck to you.

Supercool!

My gymnastic ability ends at lunging wildly across the room to prevent my 2-year old from shaving the dog,

I’m ok with 3 ball juggling, good with odd objects (my record is a baby stroller, baseball, and a set of keys) but 4-ball and clubs still elude me.

Good luck dude, Cirque’s da bomb.

Anyone here pass clubs? (obviously our 9 ball man does) Paul? Club passing is where the real fun in juggling is!

Loren

No passing for me-- I’ve never had partners! Love to give it a try sometime if I met some locals who were willing to indulge a newbie. My club juggling is not strong, so I’d have to start out with ball passing.

Seems that every one of the Quebecois kids who pick apples in the Okanagan was an expert club-passer. There were also several who were pretty good on slack-wire, which is, I hear, blinkin’ difficult.

They were crumby djembe players, though.

Uhn uh, passing with balls is way harder, really. Trust me on that one.


Loren

Almost an hour with no repartee…
:confused: :laughing: :confused:

it’s jus’ not right