So I’d been wanting to see a Cirque du Soleil show for a very long time, probably going on 4 or 5 years now. I think it started when I watched a tv show on the making (engineering, costume, acts, etc.) of one of their perminent Las Vegas shows. I took a trip to L.V. a while back, but unfortunately couldn’t snag tickets for any of the shows there. A few months ago I got an email from ticketmaster or something like that saying that Varekai was going to be in the Seattle area. I decided to get tickets and managed to get a pretty good set, nearly dead center about halfway up. Fast forward to yesterday…

I’d asked a friend of mine, Riani, to accompany me. It is for the most part unrealted, but we went out to dinner beforhand to a really really good Indian place, Taste of India, probably the best I’ve been to not that I’ve been to that many. Anyway it was a rather dreary evening and as we were driving across the 520 bridge it started to rain and by the time we made it over to Marymoor Park it was raining rather hard. Luckily I had my big fold umbrella in my truck which came in very handy, but we still got a bit wet walking in. So fast forward a bit more and we get to the show itself…

The show started without any announcement and kind of blended in with other things that had been going on beforehand. It slowly built up to an opening number/theme song. The whole feel was really cool and interesting. You couldn’t really pin down the exact influences, but there were definitely Eastern European and Brazilian parts to it, an interesting combination.

The acts were standard circus with a twist and intense artistic flair. One of the things that struck me the most was the detail. While a main performance was going on there were always other characters watching, dancing, interacting. Weaving in the central story to the current act.

At any rate, this is long enough already so I’ll stop leaving it at: We had a great time and now I want to see their other shows.