Peking Acrobats!
Jan. 15th, 2006 07:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinian1. I am just not that bloodthirsty, and I don't like being scared. The breaking bricks on people and the bending of steel dowels using one or more sternums were creepy. The "High Chair" act freaked me the hell out. "You crazy motherfucker," I kept thinking to myself as my hands sweated. (The picture of a chair act in this article is the MUCH LESS SCARY chair act that followed the scary 30-feet-in-the-air one.)
2. The cute! The whimsical! "Keep It Under Your Hat," we decided, was invented by someone drunk on vacation in Mexico. It's juggling with little straw hat lined with bright red velour, two in the air at any given time and one on the juggler's head. So bizarre and adorable, especially when they started swapping them around and stealing each other's hats. And the lion dance was about the cutest thing I've ever seen.
3. Suspension of disbelief is much more difficult in person, but at times it becomes necessary. That girl balancing on the extra-tall unicycle really did carefully stack four bowls on her right leg and then flip them into the air precisely so that she caught them on her head. See, I can tell you all this without spoiling it for you because (a) there is so much other mind-boggling stuff and (b) it will fall right out of your brain, because we do not retain the impossible well!
4. Strangely beautiful stuff, too, like the weirdly pistillate "Spinning Plates" number. The timing and misdirection of a few other numbers were amazing and lovely.
5. You should definitely go if they're coming to your town! (Unfortunately, I can't find a decent link right now, and I really need to go to bed. But try to find out!)
2. The cute! The whimsical! "Keep It Under Your Hat," we decided, was invented by someone drunk on vacation in Mexico. It's juggling with little straw hat lined with bright red velour, two in the air at any given time and one on the juggler's head. So bizarre and adorable, especially when they started swapping them around and stealing each other's hats. And the lion dance was about the cutest thing I've ever seen.
3. Suspension of disbelief is much more difficult in person, but at times it becomes necessary. That girl balancing on the extra-tall unicycle really did carefully stack four bowls on her right leg and then flip them into the air precisely so that she caught them on her head. See, I can tell you all this without spoiling it for you because (a) there is so much other mind-boggling stuff and (b) it will fall right out of your brain, because we do not retain the impossible well!
4. Strangely beautiful stuff, too, like the weirdly pistillate "Spinning Plates" number. The timing and misdirection of a few other numbers were amazing and lovely.
5. You should definitely go if they're coming to your town! (Unfortunately, I can't find a decent link right now, and I really need to go to bed. But try to find out!)
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Date: 2006-01-15 07:53 am (UTC)I would say more but I am still stunned.
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Date: 2006-01-15 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-15 06:47 pm (UTC)