Colleen Mastony of the Chicago Tribune recently sat down with Dasha, Julie and Natasha – Kooza’s wonderful contortionists – to “ask about seeing the audience cringe and what it’s like growing up in the circus” and more. From the article:
- For the last 15 months—nine shows a week, sometimes two shows a day, for a total 488 performances, if anyone’s counting—the three young contortionists have tied themselves in knots. They’ve folded themselves in half, bent over backward, twisted and stretched in ways that are beautiful and—we must admit—a bit disturbing. Natasha Patterson, 11, of San Rafael, Calif., Julie Bergez, 15, of San Francisco, and Dasha Sovik, 17, of Moscow, are contortionists for Cirque du Soleil’s “Kooza” show. Onstage, they seem like strange, supernatural beings, dressed in golden spandex and moving in unison to the dreamy music. But offstage, it turns out, they are giggly, gum-chewing adolescents, who—having performed together for five years—are as close as sisters.
Read the entire interview here.
{ SOURCE: The Chicago Tribune }
