Cirque Éloize, a Quebec-based contemporary circus, show off their astonishing moves and stunts in Dubai. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00It's a visual extravaganza of just physical beats, break dancing, circus acrobatics, hip
00:22hop dance, extreme sports all kind of meshed together into a show.
00:27We don't do it in a big talk.
00:28We do it in theatres, our show is fundamentally played within theatres.
00:33Also we're a much smaller cast, there's about 15 of us on stage at any given time and it
00:38means that we also then have to be multi-skilled so it's incredibly hard work and it's incredibly
00:43fun because of it.
00:44It's also a very different experience because it has the ability to be a narrative show
00:47with so many, with so few people rather.
00:49You see people come back over and over and you develop a relationship with that character
00:53as they appear on stage, which is sometimes lost in a bigger cast.
00:56I think the thing is there are moments like that in our show where you are genuinely scared
01:00for the performer because what we do is very, very technical and very, very difficult and
01:04quite scary to watch.
01:05But I think the energy of our show is about youth and about fun, being cocky and being
01:10arrogant and being very strong at what you do but showing off and that's the energy,
01:15the impetus behind our show so if that's what comes across then that's great because we're
01:20doing our job properly.
01:21Every risk that we take is very calculated.
01:23The scariest thing for me and for most performers is actually being in front of an audience.
01:27To do circus you're vulnerable in front of a bunch of strangers and they expect you to
01:31impress them.
01:32For me it's scarier to watch the other performers when you don't understand the technique yourself.
01:36No two shows are ever alike.
01:37There's always different conditions in different theatres, sometimes somebody's injured or
01:42we have to make changes all the time.