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16/01/08

Sunday THE 13th with Cirque De Soleil

The weekend did start pretty well...Amazing dinner from receipies from a lot of places around the world, and then two nights of dancing, and one night of getting drunk !!!

What a weekend it was till Sunday...

I knew there was something planned for Sunday evening, but my bugger brother had not told me yet !!! So I knew we were to reach somewhere by 1900 hrs, and I would get late in reaching back home to Horley, and that there was no photography allowed...

What I did not know was, what I was about to see this Sunday, the 13th was

Suppa Duppa, Classy, Marvelous, Incredible, Astonishing, Splendid, Beautiful, Fantabulous, Magnificent, Brilliant, extraordinary, fantastical, terrific, tremendous, unreal, unusual, wonderful, wondrous, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awesome,awing, impressive, surprising, intense, irresistible, errorless, faultless, flawless, chamatkaran, mahe-surr, kamaal, fabuleux, fantastique, adbhuut, azab, gajab, mukkamal, Fantastique , Fantastisch, Fantastico , Überraschen , Stupore , Überwältigen , Sopraffare , Perfetto , imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, extreme, excellent, fascinating, incredible, marvelous, prodigious, shocking, stunning, surprising, unbelievable, wonderful, astounding, bewildering, breathtaking, extraordinary, impressive, marvelous, miraculous, spectacular, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, stupefying, stupendous !!!!

Thanks to everyone who has read the previous post to help me out with the words...

And It was NEAT and Phenomenal (thanks aqui for reminding me of these :)

I got out of the bus, and what I see is that I am standing in front of the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London !!!

This is a shocker in itself... Every time I passed through that place, I used to wonder about how would it be to watch a show here, and there it was... right there in front of me and I was about to watch

Cirque De Soleil (Means Circus of the Sun)


This is an annual Circus event that is presented in the Royal Albert Hall ...

And this year's show was Varekai (Means Wherever in Romani Language)!!!


What followed in the next few hours is something that I am not capable of describing in words the way it happened... The most colorful of the dresses, the most flawless moves, people flying around coming out of nowhere, people jumping atleast 20 ft high in air, people balancing themselves with one hands 30 ft in air, and more and more and more...

I would leave it to the following pictures ( picked up from the official website) and a few videos that I managed to find over the internet to really show you what was happening there... Mind you these pictures and videos are nowhere close to how it felt during the 2 hours I was sitting in that auditorium...

Triple Trapeze

Water Meteors

Georgian Dance

Handbalancing on Canes (Me and Abhishek, both fell in love with this girl Irina, :D )

Flight of Icarus, The way this guy kept flying around with ease was unbelievable... I think I was in so much AWE throughout that I did not even clap and kept wondering what was happening...

The Musicians

The Russian Swings... (My favorite of all the acts) Amazing Energy, Amazing Flawless Fearless Performances)


Take sometime off, put some headphones to your ears and enjoy the videos that follow...

Cirque du Soleil's Varekai - Icarian Games


Cirque du Soleil's Varekai- Handbalancing On Canes


Cirque du Soleil's Varekai- Arial Straps


Cirque du Soleil's Varekai - Russian Swings


In case you are interested in the factual information about Cirque du Soleil or Varekai, THIS is where you can click...

And Abhi, Thank you Again :)

17 comments:

  1. wow!!!!!!!!!
    am too tounge tied to react anymore...
    already watching the clips for third time now and could only feel my eyes popping out like: it's hard to believe it's real!!

    and now i know why u needed that word-list... anyone would fall short of words to describe 'cirque de soleil' :)

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  2. # Mayuri...
    you bet... I was sitting with my mouth open in AWE the entire time...

    Just could not believe my eyes !!!

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  3. So this took you the two days in writing this post.
    Good effort.

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  4. WAAAOOOOOOOOOO INDEED...JUST AWESOME...the only thing i have seen close live is "Chicago" in London many years back..but this was just incredible..

    thanks for sharing it with us..lovely..

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  5. # Abhi...
    nai re... likh to main Kal hi deta... thoda words ki kami thi, jo us post ne poori kar di...

    Plus, samajh nai aa raha thaa ke tereko thank you kaise bolun :) chaar baar to post karne ke baad edit ki wo line maine :D

    thank you Bhai... tu to mera Godsend angle hai !!!

    # Tanu...
    Awesome is an understatement :)

    Main to hairaan, pareshaan, baithaa tha saare time ke ye ho kya raha hai... vishwaas hi nai hua mereko to :)

    no worries :) glad you enjoyed :)

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  6. i m sure this was an experience of a lifetime,,,i saw chitty chitty bang bang a children theater play on broadway Manhattan and still thinking about it makes my eyes shine..though its been almost 2 yrs now..

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  7. WOW!!!!
    seriously no words 2 describe it...m astonishd 2 read such a wonderful description...it was lyk seeing thngs thrgh ur eyes..specailly dat adjectives used 2 describe it,dat made d experience even more wonderfullllll.......
    hope u had a gr8 tym...

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  8. didnt u miss out on some of your pet words aka ... 'neat', 'phenomenal'.... while asking for some public suggestions make sure u dont loose your core qualities....

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  9. # Ankur...
    :) I am sure you must have liked it... mujhe bhi ek musical dekhna hai soon... trying to figure out which one.. bahut angrezi hoti hai sab mein.. samajh kuch aayega nai mere :D

    # Vaishali..

    good to see you here girl...

    I did have a good time... thanks :)

    God bless !!!

    # Aqui...
    Galti ho gai... and has been corrected...
    thanks :)

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  10. # Anjuli...

    This is the BEST comment on this post so far !!!!

    hehehe...

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  11. Man!!!!!!!!!!

    they are genious....
    i felt like clapping here in front of the screen after watching these amazing awestrucking performance...its so difficult to believe them..

    ....such speed,accuracy..and daredevil.....had never seen anything like this before.

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  12. @ Fighterjet...
    i don't even remember if i clapped or not... i was so awestruck with the performance !!!

    though the sound of applause was deafening whenever it used to happen....

    I am so bloody glad I saw this... something that I will remembe for the rest of my life i guess!!!

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  13. akele akele chale jaate ho .......... bad :(

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  14. @ Amit..

    If you read the post correctly bhai mere... you would know that I did not have a clue where we were going...

    All I knew that Abhishek had the tickets booked already and we were going somewhere... when i insisted, he just said that we will watch a circus...

    Could not have called you for this one bro..

    but but.. its still on... and you can visit it anytime you like till i guess mid of february !!!

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  15. too bad i can't watch the videos. i have exceeded the stipulated Megabytes in my stupid limited broadband plan.yikes. in gajodhar bhaiyya's words : eee kaa? kasrat dikhaa rahe ho? tohar blogwa hain, paise kyon nahi lete iske bhai?

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  16. # Elusive...

    jab hum dikhayenge tamasaa karke, tabahi to paisa lenge bhai... abhi to doosra log khusee ma naach ja rahe hain kartab dikha rahe hain.. uska paisa hum kaise lein !!!

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