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Some good, but not entirely unexpected news, at least half of it. Cirque du Soleil and Sony Pictures announced a few days ago the release of the Cirque du Soleil concert show for the big screen in movie theaters. It will be released this month (they made the announcement on very short notice). This probably means that we can expect a DVD release of the show by Christmas this year or latest by Spring 2009. I would be surprised, if they would not release it this year already. Christmas would be perfect to get a piece of the holiday business. I am not surprised about the availability of a recorded version of the show, the Cirque did that with other shows that were not resident shows in the past already (with exception of “La Nouba”), including “Corteo” and “Varekai”. It should not be for long until a video of the touring show “Kooza” will become available on DVD. I do not recall though that they had the recordings running in Movie Theaters prior the DVD release. That’s a first as far as I know. Here is the trailer for the Movie release, coming to selected Movie Theaters near you. Backup Link to Video on Youtube.com. For more Cirque du Soleil visit my Cirque du Soleil primer. Also check out my YouTube channel about Cirque du Soleil and performing arts in general. This announcement also reminded me on working on a longer preview video of the show. I got many video[…]

Hey folks, here is a quick update for what is going on with Cirque du Soleil. The new Cirque du Soleil and Criss Angel’s “Believe” show at Luxor was supposed to open September 1, 2008 for 15 previews through September 11, 2008 followed by a grand opening gala on September 12, 2008, instead, the gala opening has been pushed back to October and the show gets a “soft” opening on September 12, 2008. The gala opening premiere date was first rescheduled for October 9, 2008 but then moved back a day to Friday, October 10, 2008, because October 9, 2008 is a major Jewish holiday. It is now questionable, if I can make it to the show as I planned for September. I will probably be again in Vegas in November though, for a second chance. It???s a small bummer though. Meanwhile, the names for the Cirque du Soleil shows for Tokyo and Macao were revealed and there have been some press conferences where I got some video footage from to get a small glimpse at the new shows. The Tokyo show is called “Zed”. Here is a video that includes the web intro, some press conference footage and a TV spot in Japanese for the new Cirque du Soleil show that will premiere on October 1, 2008 at the Cirque du Soleil Theatre at Disney Resort Tokyo (Disneyland). Backup Link to Video on YouTube. Also see the official “ZED” website for ticket purchases and more. “Zed” Show Creators Fran??ois[…]

If you think that I did not write and do much at my blog then you are mistaken. Instead of writing some new posts I did update some existing ones instead. My Cirque du Soleil Primer was extensively expanded for example. I did learn a lot about the Cirque during the past few weeks and had contact with several people like me who are Cirque du Soleil fans like me (some even more crazy than I am, can you believe that?! ) I submit the primer to Digg.com myself, which is never such a splendit idea, but I thought “what the heck.” and just did it. Nobody else seems to agree with me that it is actually great content. I hope that I am not wrong about this and would appreciate, if you could show me, if you like it by adding a comment to this post or at the primer itself and/or Digg the Primer post, if you have a Digg.com user account. The Primer I also worked on more video content. I don’t write a post here at my blog for every video that I upload to my two YouTube accounts and elsewhere on the Internet. Here you only get some of the highlights :). If you like what I publish, I suggest to subscribe to my channel(s) directly after you created your own account at the video sharing website. I upload all my videos to either my SACRELEASES channel or my CARSTENSVLOG CirqueDuSoleilGuru channel on YouTube.com. You[…]

I produced a number of new Cirque du Soleil videos in the past few weeks, but did not get around until now to write another post. I found some parts of the special Cirque performance titled “Reflections in Blue” (R??flexions de bleu), which was performed as part of the opening ceremonies for the XI. World Aquatics Championships FINA in Montreal, Canada on June 15, 2005. I found recordings of two of the seven or eight parts (I am not sure about the actual number), the acts “The Mermaid” (La sir??ne) with Bolormaa Zorigtkhuyag that is similar to the water bowl contortion act in the Las Vegas Cirque show ???Zumanity??? and the act titled “Midnight Dancer” (Danseur de la nuit) with Anatoly Zalievsky, a very acrobatic act to the timeless music by Yanni. Backup link to video at YouTube Here are some interesting quick stats for this one-time performance: The venue was three times the size of the K?? theatre. The swimming pool was made to look like the sea by lining it with a giant blue sheet that covered the bottom and the perimeter of the pool. The projection screen at the back of the pool was 18 m (60′) wide by 7 m (24′) tall. Over 200 volunteer performers took part in the show. Three quarters of the participants were women. The performers ranged in age from under 10 years old to over 50 years old. Twenty-three cameras were used to shoot the performance for television. Spectators played a[…]