A full moon, a blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau, and the Orange County Fairgrounds and Exposition Center directs you to Cirque Du Soleil “Varekai.”
“Varekai” was conceived from a creative team, led by writer and director Domininc Champagne. While this show stops in its North American Tour from Canada into Philadelphia and swinging through nets to California with several performances, including Pomona and Costa Mesa then it will fly away into Phoenix and dive to Denver.
Since Cirque Du Soleil, coming to style in 1984, it has won many awards through its two decades of service and excitement across the world.In vision excitement and fantasy, with a forest of tall trees and peculiar creatures who inhabit this place of “Varekai.”
The acts give you laughter and fulfillment of an extraordinary vision of such a wonderful amazement.
One of the greatest acts that I enjoyed was the Water Meteors. This act was created to show three young acrobats whirling ropes with metal meteors attached to the ends high above their heads. They handled their ropes with great agility this amazed me with all their impressive acrobatic work.
“Varekai” is like a dream beyond imagination, of music, smells, scenery, and its costumes of extraordinary design. You can’t call it a dream, and you can’t call it an adventure, just a vision of wonderful performance.
The second most wonderful act in “Varekai” was the flight of Icanrus. This act shows the agility and sensitivity of the performer Anton Chelnoka and his astounding dives and contortions in the net, it makes you hold your breathe in a hold on with amazement.
With four amazing set designs inside the Grand Chapiteau, which includes the forest, the stage, the catwalk and the lookout. The fabulous hideaway of “Varekai”, and its characters make their home. Consisting over 300 trees, that range between 15 and 30 feet tall and has 20 odd “acrobatic trees,” which its inhabitants can see what’s up beyond “Varekai.”
The major highlights of “Varekai,” behind the scenes; “Varekai has over 130 costumes in wardrobe, with a design that creates involvement of technical solutions to ensure comfort and safety. Providing the highly skilled costume makers fashioned it to its original creation, with providing work of over 33,000 hours. The costumes are made of Lycra, one of the Cirque’s most popular fabrics, with its flexible, elastic and easy-care gives properties. Other materials were used too, such as titanium rods, sponge nylon, and fire resistant cloth.
Guy Laliberte, President and Founder of Cirque Du Soleil in 1984, he was born in founding city of Quebec; he was an accordion player, stilt walker, and a fire-eater. Laliberte’s daring vision of Quebec’s first international renowned circus. Laliberte has created the world’s greatest circus in the world. It gives people across the world with a memory we will never forget!
As Cirque Du Soleil enters its 20th year, it has provided people with sold out and standing ovation shows that drain out the world. Now touring with nine shows across North America, Europe and even Japan.
Cirque Du Soleil has amazed children and adults with such amazing shows as Dralion and Saltimbanco in Europe and Allegria and Varekai in North America and in Japan its Quidam show.
Cirque Du Soleil has permanent shows in two great tourist cities Las Vegas, NV and Orlando, Fl. Las Vegas has three shows in its three great hotel and casinos; “O” in the Bellagio, Mystero in Casino Treasure Island, and Zumanity in New York, New York. In Orlando at Downtown Disney in Walt Disney World a show called La Nouba is performed.
Cirque Du Soleil will amaze the greater L.A. area until March in Costa Mesa. Tickets range from $70-130 for adults and $45-65 for children. Visit www.cirquedusoleil.com for more information.
