Each year since 2013, Cirque Du Soleil have brought together a special charity show performing it at The MGM Resorts Theatre in Las Vegas, in aid of 'One Drop', a charity providing clean water to developing nations wordwide. In this one hour special available on their YouTube channel, they showed a compilation of some of their acts from both the 2013 and the 2017 performances.
Of course there was the usual array of modern circus performers such as high-wire and aerial artistes as well as a teeterboard / trampoline troupe. We had a female singer and live music, and an "old school" strong man style act which worked well. Comedy was injected by a feamle liontamer routine with a member of the audience and some comedy juggling. There was contemporary dance routines and a man doing gymnastics on a pommel horse.
The arena was cleverly decorated and designed with attention to detail. Creative lighting - especially in the opening act on this video - helped greatly to create mood and atmosphere.
In between the acts, performers and creatives from Cirque Du Soleil were interviewed and they spoke a little about Cirque and also the importance of the charity 'One Drop'. We heard from The Atherton Family, (acrobats and aerial) who could have been living right next door to me judging from their accents, as well as The Dewhurst family (writers and directors), The Mukthar family (director / creator), and we learned that the Cirque Du Soleil is much more than just a 'brand' or a 'company', but it is, especially to those who work there, a family and a way of life.
Nothing especially outstanding or that had the 'wow' factor in the acts on this one hour special, but an interesting watch for a worthy cause.
Reviewer - Matthew Dougall
on - 4/5/20
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