Over at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Wendy Rosenfield is looking at Koozå from a physiotherapist point of view. From her article:
- In Kooza, Cirque du Soleil’s newest touring show to arrive in Philadelphia, a slip of a girl leans backward, folding herself in half and touching her toes. Another performer stands on stilts perched atop one end of a teeterboard. He flies into the air, stilts and all, turning several somersaults and landing with perfect poise, still firmly on his stilts. At every performance, the audience gasps in amazement, and behind each gasp lies a question or two: Where do these people come from? How did they get that way? And what on earth do they do to stay in shape? Boris Verkhovsky, Cirque’s genial acrobatic performance and coaching director, can answer all those questions. The performers came to Cirque the same way artists get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice.
Read the full article here.
{ SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer }
