Eastern European party.

Hi! Last Saturday we had Eastern European party at the circus right after the last show before weekend. I had a lot of fun. Our circus committee invited a Russian folk trio of musicians "Moscow Nights" from the North Carolina, so we had live music. Musicians played on Russians instruments like the balalayka, the balayka-conrabass, and the bayan. The balayka looks like guitar, but it has triangle shape and only tree strings. The balayka-contrabass looks the same as balayka just much bigger. The musician has to stand when he plays, because the instrument is big and stand on the floor. I had a very nice "venok", the headdress of Ukrainian national costume, also I had a blouse. Actually the blouse is Mexican, because it looks like Ukrainian. I decided to wear that blouse. We also  had Eastern European food context. I participated in this context. I made "vareniki", the Ukrainian dish. It is similar to Italian ravioli. I made three kids of vareniki with mashed potato, fried cabbage, and sweet cottage cheese. They was very delicious. We had games where I had a chance to try to play on Russian instrument "treschetki". We were laughing so much. I danced with a Ukrainian guy in the end of our party. Of course we danced a Ukrainian gopak. Gopak is the Ukrainian national dance. Many people made of lot of complements about the dance. It was unforgettable event. Thank you to our committee who organized this Eastern European party.

John Travolta's visit to La Nouba.

     Hi guys and girls! I would like to tell you about my circus. Cirque du Soleil’s shows are very popular around the world. So many famous people have visited Cirque du Soleil, especially shows in Las Vegas. Our show is located in Orlando, but once in a while famous people visit Disney parks and, of course, they stop by La Nouba. In the beginning of January John Travolta and his family watched the show. The whole cast of La Nouba was ecstatic, especially when stage manager made an announcement on the radio right before the show.  I always try to put in all of my energy when I perform. But if I know that there is someone special is watching the show, I want to do my best. During the show, couple of girls added some choreography movements from “Pulp Fiction” movie. Also our music band played a piece of music from one of the famous movie with John Travolta.

 I don’t have idols. I mean I am not a big fan of somebody. For example, I have several actors who I like to watch on the TV.  I respect them as a very talented people, but I don’t get crazy about. However, it is always a pleasure to meet talented and successful people. 

  That day we did a very spectacular show. Right after our performance the whole Travolta’s family came to meet us in the training room.  John and his wife, Kelly Preston, were open with all the artists. They shook hands and said a lot of warm words. They are such a friendly people. We were allowed to take only one group picture with John Travolta and his wife. Then I asked to take an individual picture with John, and he said yes. I was so excited taking the picture with John Travolta. In addition, I got his autograph too. Now I got one more picture with a famous person that I added on mi collection with stars.

My work place.



LA NOUBA



Hi! I would like to tell about my work place. I already told you that I work at Cirque du Soleil in the show La Nouba. La Nouba has 64 artists including 2 singers and 6 musicians. Our team is international. There are artists from USA, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, France, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, China, and Australia. English and French are two official communication languages in Cirque du Soleil; English of course is first and French because the main residency of the company is situated in Montreal, in French speaking province Quebec, Canada. However, at work we have our own language the mix of Russian, English and other languages. Because our show has many Russian speaking artists, I speak Russian most of the time.  Even our powertrack captain, the American guy, speaks Russian very well.  Many times we have social events in the circus like Birthday and Christmas party, Cinco de Mayo, Halloween, anniversaries, golf competition, beach gathering, etc.  I love when we are gathering together and having fun.  We bring our own jokes to the conversations; sometimes the jokes after translation from original language don’t make any sense, but  it is funny anyway. 


      It sounds like we have fun all the time, but it only seems like that. We work physically, and do many hard tricks. It demands a lot of concentration every day. That is why we have a lot of injuries and microtraumas.  We have 3 physiotherapists who take care of us all the time. For example, if I have some medical issue I can sign up for the treatment or massage. I think it is big privilege compared to other circus companies. We do 10 shows a week, plus we have 2 practices and dance cleanings on the stage very often. Even now I have to run to the stage to practice for my perfection, and of course, show quality.  We are hard workers. That is why our show already celebrated 12^th anniversary.

     Here is a new commercial of the show which was filmed couple months ago. It just came on a big screen of the TV in front of the circus building. At 2 minutes and 1 second I do my trick the triple column:

   



Birthday Anniversary of our clown Sergey



Beach gathering

 

Cinco de Mayo

 

Trip to Las Vegas. Part 2.

    Hi! I want to continue my story about my trip to Las Vegas.  Oh, the last week was extremely busy for me. Because I had got a lot of positive impressions in Las Vegas, I did well all week without any stress. During my trip  in Las Vegas, I went to see another amazing show “Le Reve”. It is an extremely fabulous show. This spectacular show is entertaining and astonishing all public. Although “Le Reve” runs in Las Vegas for more than 4 years, I hadn’t had an opportunity to see this show before. Finally, on the last day of my trip we went to see “Le Reve”. The producer of ‘Le Reve” is Franco Dragone. He is genius and very talented producer. He produced several shows of Cirque du Soleil. In one of those “Alegria” I used to work, and in other show “La Nouba” I work now.  “Le Reve” placed in casino “Wynn”. It is an aquatic show. The show theatre is big, and seats placed all around the round stage. High ceiling makes audience feel like theatre connected to another world. There are 3 backstage entrances filled with water. Artists and decorations appear and disappear in water, or go down and up from the ceiling on lounges. There a huge amount of water runs from the ceiling. In fact, tickets on the first two or three rows cost cheaper, because audience can be a little wet. All show is about lost love. A girl, the main character in the show, searches for her love men who she met and lost in her dream. Actually, “Le Reve” means “The Dream” in French. The state-of-the-art special effects and high level of performance of acrobats, gymnasts, divers, and synchronized swimmers amazed me. I really enjoyed the show.
                                There is the trailer of “Le Reve” show on youtube website:

                                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SW5LdYGZ0


                         Of course better one time to see it then hundreds times to hear about it :).

                


"LE REVE"   

Happy Chinese New Year!

 

       Hello everyone! It is already 6th of February.  It was Chinese New Year 3 days ago. 2011 is the year of the Rabbit.

               Happy New Year!