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RE: Contemporary Circus: Cyr wheel (and more) with Rachel Salzman
Your dancing with the cyr ring is entrancing. What was it about circus that interested you before it clicked at the aerial silks workshop?
Firstly, thank you! I first discovered circus when I was 6 years old (I saw the Cirque du Soleil show "Alegria") and I was obsessed. In dance I found a freedom and a connection with music, but there was something about circus, with its extremity and risk, that always was missing for me in dance. And so, when I took my first aerial silks class, while I was horribly weak and could barely climb at first, there was something that felt right. I thought it was already too late for me (given that I'd grown up in dance thinking one must start young), but that's not the case! I started cyr wheel when I was 23 years old!
What a wonderful story! I can see how Cirque du Soleil could definitely do it. I saw Zarkana in London years ago. It was unforgettable.