[Contest is closed: Alex Perez is the winner!]
Sunday night my husband and I experienced Cirque du Soleil for the first time when we saw Amaluna at Atlanta’s Atlantic Station. I expected an over-the-top visual experience, but I wasn’t prepared for performers whose abilities extended beyond what I believed possible.
More than once I shook my head in disbelief: the human body is capable of amazing things with skill and practice.
Amaluna runs here in Atlanta until November 30, 2014. Leave a comment at the bottom of this post for your chance to win four tickets!
Fun Facts about Cirque du Soleil and Amaluna
After the show we stayed for a Q&A session with a representative from the show and learned some fascinating facts about Cirque du Soleil and Amaluna in particular.
- Performers do their own makeup, which consists of 15-20 pages worth of instruction. With practice, it can be completed in 40 minutes to an hour.
- Amaluna is self-sustainable: the tent, 2600 seats, and full set travel from location to location in 64 trucks.
- A typical Cirque du Soleil cast is 70-75% male, but Amaluna is 70% female with a 100% female band.
- Nineteen different Cirque du Soleil productions are currently on tour around the world.
- It takes 8 days to set up for Amaluna and 3 days to tear it back down.
- Cirque du Soleil performers come from a variety of backgrounds, from multi-generation circus families to athletes scouted at athletic events.
- The Amaluna set contains a large water bowl, which takes 4 hours to fill and weighs 4000 lb.; the water, kept at 98°, is filtered and only filled once per city.
- Amaluna travels with a kitchen and 3 chefs.
- It is estimated that 165,000 people will see Amaluna in Atlanta.
- The story fuses classical elements, including tales from Greek and Norse mythology, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
- It takes 2-4 years to create a new Cirque du Soleil production before it goes on stage, from visuals to marketing to costumes to performers learning their parts.
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Enter to Win Tickets for Four!
Leave a comment at the bottom of this post for your chance to win tickets for four to see Amaluna in Atlanta on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m.! Have you ever seen a Cirque du Soleil performance? If so, which one?
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[Disclosure: Tickets provided for review and giveaway. The photos in this post (other than the selfie at the top!) aren’t mine, but are from the show’s press release.]
Dawn, it looks wonderful! I have always wanted to go see one of the performances.
Looks amazing!! I would love to take my family! Such a visual treat!!!
I would love an opportunity to take our family to see Cirque du Soleil. Amazing what the human body can be trained to do!
I have never seen Cirque du Soleil and would LOVE to!!!!
Wow!! I’m speechless!! Amazing! We have never been before! Thank you for sharing your experience!! The pics are breathtaking!!
I have always wanted to go to a show!!! Thanks for sharing the awesome pics!
We had never been to this show. It would be something new and different to bring the whole family out to view it.. Thank you for your insight regarding this. Hope to win:)
I have never been to one of these. Looks so neat!
We’ve watched many of the Cirque shows on BRAVO, but would LOVE to see one live! The performers are amazing. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Wow! Awesome! We would love to go!
I have had the pleasure of seeing OvO which was spectacular. I was a guest at this performance through my daughters work. The performers are so precise and the their athletic abilities are amazing!! I was on the edge of my seat through-out the show and when it was over I was wanting more. It is so easy to sit and watch. You never get bored and the action continues through-out the story they are performing.
If given a chance I would go again. Everyone should experience this once in their lifetime.
We saw Ovo in the past and it was amazing! Would love to win these tickets!
Thanks for sharing this! We’ve never seen a production but the pictures look amazing!!!! :o)
Oh this would be a wonderful date with my sweetheart (I might add a much needed date:P)
You got some great shots! Looks amazing! I’ve always wanted to go-actually looked at tickets this morning!
Thanks for sharing your experience. We absolutely love Cirque du Soleil! It such an amazing visual, mind blowing experience. Have not been able to attend for several years, but sure would love to!
So happy you got to go! Hopefully one day we will too! It’s on my bucket list….
Dawn, my kids would love to see some fantastic artistry and hear some great music if we got the tickets! And thanks for sharing these with the homeschooling community!
I have never been to a Cirque du Soleil performance but have always wanted to go. This looks fantastic! Thanks for this opportunity.
I’ve never been, but–oh my word–it looks so cool! Would love to see it.
I would love to take my family! What an amazing show!
We saw the last Cirque du Solely in Atlanta – but I can’t remember the name. It was facinating with a frog theme.
Oh how we love Cirque. We’ve seen a few shows, but this year it just wasn’t in the budget. So happy you got to experience it. It’s amazing!!!!
Thanks for the giveaway! It’s fun to hear the reactions of people who have seen Cirque for the first time.
Wow. I would love to win the tickets. The more I learn about Cirque, the more I want to see it. 🙂
A wonderful giveaway…thank you for sharing a wonderful family night out with someone. It will be a great night!!
Wow! It looks stunning! We would love to be a part of your drawing. Thanks!
This would be fantastic my grandaughter wants to go but sadly tickets are too high priced. Thanks for the opportunity!
I love learning about the behind the scenes stuff! This sounds so amazing, I’d love to go! 🙂
Thank you for including all the details. It’s fascinating to learn all that goes into the production. It wounds amazing.
Gina
So glad yall got to go! I’d love for Brad to take me for our upcoming anniversary! We could do a double date night with some friends! Looks amazing!
Hubby & I would love to win these tickets! Neither one of us has ever see a Cirque show!! It looks so cool!
Would love to see this performance! I have three girls I would love to surprise with an event like this!
I have never been, but would love to! 🙂
We saw Kooza in Atlanta. Would love to see this one!
It looks like so much fun! I would love to go see their performance!
Love Cirque Du Soleil!!!
We’ve never been to any of their shows. In fact we were just talking about trying to go with a couple we are wanting to share the gospel with. What a huge blessing it would be to win these tickets! Thanks for doing a drawing!
We have never been to any of their shows. In fact we were just talking about going with a couple we are trying to share the gospel with. What a blessing it would be to win these tickets! Thanks for doing a drawing!
Dawn – I have seen one Cirque show many years ago. Brian has never been to one. I would so enjoy a “date night” with Brian and go to dinner and to see Cirque – rather than our trip to Ruby Tuesday and Walmart. 😉 Thanks for the opportunity to be in your drawing!!
I saw Kooza in Atlanta about 6 years ago- before I was married. Would love to see this one with my husband!
I’ve been treated to Cirque three times: Qui’dam (1998) by my late father, Ovo (2010) just me and my hubs, Totem (2012) by my grandma and took our kids. We loved the shows in that order. Tickets should go to someone who hasn’t experienced it yet!
Our boys are finally old enough to “get it,” so we’re talking about going this year.
We would love the opportunity to go. My daughters would love it!
We did once to see Ovo..It was amazing!!
WOW! I wanna go . . . !
Your pictures are stunning! My mom took me to one of these shows 15 years ago and I have been dying to take my husband and older boys. My gymnast son would love it!
I have not had the opportunity to see a show. I have read reviews and seen pictures but never in person. It looks absolutely amazing and breathtaking!
I REALLY want to come down to Atlanta and take Mom to this show!!!
I have been to Cirque Du Soleil with my husband, but my kids have never experienced it before. It is such a unique experience, I would love to be able to take my family!
Love Cirque Du Soleil…Would love to take my fam
Oh please…pick me! I’ve never seen it and have always wanted to!
I went with my parents when I was a teenager. Would love to take my kids!!
What beautiful pictures! We would love the opportunity to see this. Thank you for sharing!
I would LOVE to go-the 4 of us. Never been. I’ve always been intrigued by Cirque shows, at one point when I was young, I wanted to be a circus performer:). We got engaged at Disney in 2000. A woman walked up to us near the Cirque building and offered us FREE tickets to the show that night. I guess she couldn’t make it. Craig was scared! He thought it (show) was creepy, haha! ????So, we turned them down. I think he’d go now, so it’d be nice to win:).
Have not been to a performance before, but would love to see one!
What a great double birthday night that would be! Mine is the 2st and Jason’s is the 26th!
I haven’t had a date night in soooo long and I was so envious when I first saw the pics you posted. It must be an amazing show to see!!! I had no idea that it took so much work to put on such a show. This would be a real treat for Scott and I to go to the show,,,,
Really would love to win this they are great
Saw your post on the FCHE website!! Thanks so much for this opportunity!!
We love Cirque! Thanks for the chance to enter.
we have never been but would love love love to go!!
I have not seen a show yet and it is something that is on my bucket list!
I have seen a Cirque performance, Totem.