It’s holiday season at Cirque du Soleil and the cast and crew of Alegria will gather to inspire audiences while they celebrate this special time with their show ‘family’. Check out these holiday Q&As!
Zebastian Hunter (Albury, Australia)
Favourite Holiday Food?
Raclette or Fondue
Favourite Holiday Song?
All I want for Christmas is You!
Favourite Holiday Movie?
The Nightmare before Christmas
Favourite tradition?
Drinking gluhwein!
What is your most beautiful memory of Holidays on tour?
Beer Olympics on NYE 2010! Even though it was a drinking event, it brought everyone together. Another memorable one was the NYE Fireworks we had in Lisbon.
What does represent the Holidays season for you?
Mass-marketing/ consumerism. I haven’t been home for Christmas since I’ve been performing (about 10 years) so all I see is Christmas being marketed all over! It seems like when you’re not with family, that’s all you notice.
Where are you from and what are the traditions you cherish the most from your country?
Christmas BBQ’s on the beach! It’s summer in Australia at Christmas
Alexander Andreasen (Aarhus, Denmark)
Favourite Holiday Food?
Flæskestey – it’s the Danish version of roasted pork with a scrumptious crust on the exterior. The plate is traditionally served with caramelized round potatoes and red cabbage.
Favourite Holiday Song?
Jul på vesterbro (Christmas in Vesterbro) – a Danish song
Favourite Holiday Movie?
Home Alone!
Favourite tradition?
When I was back at home and still in my gymnastics club, we’d have a soccer match every Christmas Eve.
What is your most beautiful memory of Holidays on tour?
Christmas Tree right in the studio at IHQ (Cirque du Soleil’’s International Headquarters)
What does represent the Holidays season for you?
Family
Where are you from and what are the traditions you cherish the most from your country?
Denmark. We’d be around the Christmas tree singing carols while walking around the tree and the children would come and grab gifts from under the tree and unwrap them.
Malika Alaoui (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Favourite Holiday Food?
Gruyère and any Swiss cheeses, cold meat platters and La Bûche de Noël!
Favourite Holiday Song?
Silent Night
Favourite Holiday Movie?
Le père noel est une ordure
Favourite tradition?
Give a gift to mom – Christmas is very important to her!
What is your most beautiful memory of Holidays on tour?
Secret Santa – it allowed people to come together and make new friendships
What does represent the Holidays season for you?
Family (even if I haven’t spent it with them in years!)
Where are you from and what are the traditions you cherish the most from your country?
Switzerland. The youth (typically ages 16 – 22) would parade the streets of the villages with tambourines and go door to door and they would be invited in for a small glass of white wine (legal drinking age is 16 in Switzerland), so by the end of it. Well, you can imagine!
An DeWin (Olen, Belgium)
Favourite Holiday Food?
Christmas Log
Favourite Holiday Song?
Jingle Bells!
Favourite Holiday Movie?
Home Alone – we’d always watch this at Christmas
Favourite tradition?
Say what you are grateful for to family and friends
What is your most beautiful memory of Holidays on tour?
The first Christmas I spent with Fred in 2010. It was also the first Christmas that I didn’t have to spend ‘alone’ (aka without my significant other on tour).
What does represent the Holidays season for you?
Family
Where are you from and what are the traditions you cherish the most from your country?
Belgium. One month or so before Christmas, St Nicholas was said to come by the house so we’d have to leave out a shoe with a carrot for his horse and a beer for him! If you did, then he would bring you candy and toys.
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