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00:01Every time there is a show in Montreal,
00:05it is under a microscope
00:07because we cannot fail in our own market.
00:12Nelson gonna do clown duty for a couple of weeks.
00:16He's got big shoes to fill.
00:18We want him to be one of the best of the best.
00:21I think time will tell.
00:26I'm definitely nervous.
00:27I fell about ten feet onto the hard stage.
00:31It's the first time that I'm gonna be back performing.
00:37And then she just falls.
00:40We have very opinionated people.
00:43When you're in a team,
00:45you cannot just be thinking about yourself.
00:48If there is a little bit of friction,
00:51we don't want this energy
00:52to stay around the team at the premiere.
00:55It's the opening night.
00:57A lot of important people are coming.
01:10Ladies and gentlemen,
01:12adams and monsieur,
01:13please take your seats.
01:15The show is about to begin.
01:18It's such a massive thing to premiere a show in Montreal.
01:23From the moment that Gracie told me
01:25to the moment that I was there on the stage,
01:28there was a slow ramp.
01:31Okay, this is happening.
01:33You're doing this.
01:34Oh my goodness.
01:34Can you believe it?
01:35Holy moly.
01:36What are you gonna do?
01:36Why are you here?
01:37Why'd they pick you?
01:38Oh my God.
01:47It's scary, for sure.
01:51There's so many different faces
01:52that I see sitting in the chairs.
01:542,500 people,
01:56some of the most important people
01:57from my HQ
01:58or from Cirque du Soleil's
02:00past, present and future.
02:03And now, the place at Lucia.
02:12Okay, this is my entire career up on the table.
02:18Okay, you're on.
02:19Give the audience a good show.
02:36There is a lot of tension in the artistic tent.
02:40The night of the premiere.
02:43A lot of people are coming from around the world.
02:46Our promoters are coming in town.
02:48And it has a huge impact on the success of the tour.
02:53Premiere is our introduction of the show to the city.
02:57And word of mouth is what gets people to come to see us.
03:01We want to make sure that whoever comes
03:02is spreading the word, posting on social media,
03:05showing everybody that they're having such a great time
03:07so that people like Charlie can relax.
03:11Live entertainment in general right now is a bit uncertain.
03:14Like, there's so many things happening in the world.
03:16Cirque is in the same boat.
03:18So we try to keep our little Lucia bubble protected.
03:23But we want to find ways to have the best sales as we can.
03:28Obviously, like, there are tickets revenue that we need to hit.
03:32That's why right now you're talking to someone that is very excited to see how this premiere is going to
03:39play out.
03:41That's a blast.
03:43Stand by, Dave.
03:45Nelson in.
03:47Go.
03:56When the first light came on for the parachute, I was, like, so nervous.
04:01Like, I had to do an act for myself, but I was, like, oh, my gosh, I hope he's okay.
04:07I was stressed for Nelson because the heads from Montreal are looking at him.
04:13And he's this backup clown, so he was not hired as a clown.
04:15So I came down just trying to make it work.
04:19Still haven't slept in, like, three days.
04:22The lights shift.
04:24I feel this pressure.
04:26And I'm just itching for that first laugh, that first response from the audience.
04:48There's wow, there's laughter, there's excitement from the crowd.
04:57And then there's that release of applause from the audience, which is really nice.
05:02That's when you can kind of gauge how the show is going to be from that moment.
05:16It was very, very nerve-wracking to perform in front of the creator of the show.
05:20And it was really important to do well.
05:23I'm so happy to be here.
05:26And I love it so much that, like, the idea of maybe what if I didn't get renewed or re
05:30-signed something,
05:30I would be so, so devastated.
05:33Because Nelson is the clown, I'm doing hook diving.
05:36It was like, but it's Nelson. Of course I was going to do it.
05:40I'm definitely nervous.
05:42I'm doing the full act.
05:44I think I definitely take all of his nerves for him.
05:48And so I think because we can't really talk very much during the show, it's actually better if we just
05:52stick to the plan,
05:53stick to what we have to do, focus on our job that day.
05:56I'll just look at him and blow him a kiss, and that's probably better.
06:00Olivia's due to hook diving, but we taught her all she had to learn.
06:03And we'll be there to support her, and we'll see how she does.
06:07Woo!
06:08Hey!
06:10Let's go!
06:15Let's go!
06:16Let's go!
06:25Let's go!
06:40for premieres i understand i have no control about what's happening on the stage
06:46you know if i'm backstage in the artistic tent and i'm talking to the tv of saying like please
06:50make it happen or no don't do that they can't hear me it's their responsibility and i trust
06:55them to make good choices it's really very moving
07:05here the success of this show you know it's at the side that with the public
07:14there's still too many things going around things that need to be prepared for the after party
07:19but as i'm walking around the big top i can tell that the crowd is there because i can
07:25hear it all the way into my office
07:35the premiere how do you think it went it's uh it's a relief i could see the artist being
07:43proud of the public reaction i felt the same way tonight i saw an amazing show
08:03my role is to manage the party so welcoming celebrities and fluencer and like a lot of people
08:11from the community to get the word of mouth going
08:19to be so disciplined and so busy all the time it's nice to like know you can have kind of
08:25a night where
08:25you can just let go i think some people will do it more than others
08:33it's a good time for us all to connect together but really everyone has to be disciplined
08:38because my number one obstacle during premiere week is reminding people that we'll have show notes
08:44yes yes no of course i might have known it was you i might have done a bit better
08:52Tell me about Nelson, how did he do tonight?
09:10Okay. Allons-y. Just looking what time Daniele is arriving for all these interviews and stuff.
09:17Being in Montreal does invite a lot of the original conceptors and designers.
09:23Daniele Finci-Pasco wrote and was the original director for the show,
09:27so he's here to ensure that we're still going in the right direction.
09:32Check, check, one, two.
09:36Check, check, one, two. Nelson Smart's checking it.
09:39I've met him in passing a couple of times,
09:42because he comes and he gives beautiful direction for the whole show.
09:45Um, and I guess I was always too nervous to go up and be like,
09:48Hey, how you doing? I'm Nelson.
09:52You're good.
09:54I think Nelson, um, did a good job.
09:58And especially for the amount of pressure.
10:00Everyone has opinions, everybody's got their perspectives.
10:03Were you happy?
10:04I was happy. I was really happy.
10:06It was a very special moment for me.
10:07And I was enjoying it the whole way through.
10:09Good.
10:10But, uh, sorry if it projected a bit stiff.
10:13I'm sorry.
10:15Okay, I'm not sorry.
10:16Good.
10:18We go there?
10:19We work a little bit.
10:22We will go there.
10:23We I am a clown.
10:24That is my background.
10:26And for a clown, the spectator is the most important part of the show.
10:31Yes, of course.
10:33If you think about your clown, your perception of the clown.
10:38Describe me, what is your clown?
10:40from where you will start I I guess my the end goal is something I was thinking
10:47about and so would that be like as the like I want to be out there and I want
10:54it to be a representation of me at the foundation and then the necessary
11:00character on top of that
11:05it's much more easy to be honest on stage if you do complicated things at the same
11:12time yesterday you continue to grow in some formula over up don't continue to do like in
11:27a form that you can call a slapstick I hate a huge mistake yes for sure I think I was
11:36trying to
11:37really not overact Daniela is an Italian clown and they study a lot more philosophy and so when he
11:45gives me notes there's such a weight I absolutely fall into this is funny let's do this as opposed
11:54to you know not losing respect for the story but I do often find myself enjoying the funny things a
12:06lot Nelson thinks I should do something I need to do what I will do nothing stay there you do
12:12nothing
12:13and the honesty too as well honesty to me and honesty to the story is the goal try to do
12:19nothing if it's
12:20possible just breathe and I find sometimes I do it it feels really really nice and then then
12:27sometimes it feels nice but it doesn't look good and so that's the that's what I'm trying to do
12:37uh he needed to work a lot
12:48hello how are you how are you good good since the premiere everyone has been getting notes from Cirque
12:54headquarters today I'm meeting with Daniele to discuss the adagio act it's very good to have you
13:01here and so when we started nine years ago and where you are now it's very clear that you understand
13:10exactly what we try to do you discover so many things I could discover more I'm an original member of
13:18the cast adagio is an act that requires a lot of push and pull even though I am getting thrown
13:26around it requires a lot of control and strength to get me in the air if we're not working together
13:33the act looks bad and you risk injury adagio is a lineman is so elegant I've been doing this show
13:42for
13:42nine years and sometimes it's a little bit frustrating because when I will want to explain something to one
13:49of my orders and they don't understand necessarily how we can help the other to understand what you
13:56understand that's a good question sometimes I take more time to connect with them in the act
14:08because every day sometimes a little bit different you know yeah I think everyone is learning a more
14:16graceful manner but the premiere it went I don't know but in any case what you achieve is so you
14:28achieve
14:28something and keep it because things can also disappear very quickly when you are on stage you
14:38try talk with them or not sometimes sometimes if I feel like it's a very the energy is very different
14:46I will change in my energy I will change and then they will understand Naomi knows how to drive them
14:54I
14:54think more than anyone else but the question is how it will be possible and someone like you can influence
15:06the work of the others then he asked me to take charge I'm shy in general like I was very
15:16very shy when I
15:17was little so he wants us to be a bit more graceful a bit more in sync and that will
15:25require me to take the lead
15:28it makes me wonder if I want to explore stepping in and to really communicate
15:34to try to explain and say look yeah you start from that point we try and then we achieve that
15:54kind of
16:02things i don't know if nelson had ever spoken to danielle about the clown act or especially
16:07not that in depth before i'm pretty sure i've got it you know what you want already yeah what do
16:13you
16:13want ham benedict but sometimes you have to go through something that's hard to make you better
16:19in the end you don't understand french i do understand french yeah so when danielle gives
16:23me notes it's something a bit uncomfortable to be present in but i can see that down the track
16:30it will be something that will be super good for me to go through no liby kind of had to
16:35babysit me
16:36a bit and pick me up and say nelson we'll go out everything's going to be all right it's fish
16:41cheese
16:42just google translated i don't know what that one means yes head on the bone oh my god breakfast
16:48mick talks about this all the time i'm getting that the breakfast poutine where's it say yeah
16:52all right i think i'll just do the scrambled eggs
16:56are you all right yeah i can always tell when he has pressure he kind of makes jokes about it
17:04not in a bad way but it just makes light of the situation that could be taken really difficult oh
17:11yeah there you go guys yeah thank you so much are you enjoy cinderella yeah oh there we go
17:19to you trying to make you think for sure good luck with that i'm gonna destroy this super yummy
17:44the city everything needs to be clean yeah i always take care of my balls
17:53For me, when I go on stage, the only thing I have in mind is to give the happiness to
18:01people, the smile.
18:03My name is Agubakar Traoré, I'm from Guinea-Conakry, West Africa, and I do football dance.
18:11It's a mix of artistic dance, movement with acrobacy.
18:18My dream was to be a football professional, to be the next Ronaldo, the next Messi.
18:26When I arrived in France, I had a chance to try with the professional team, Paris Saint-Germain.
18:34Then, unfortunately, I had an injury.
18:40I spent one month in the hospital because I had a heaps injury.
18:46And then my dream was over.
18:50I couldn't realize it was really the end for me in football.
18:56Here, I was really sad and my feeling was really down.
18:59And I told myself, I don't want to play anymore football.
19:04And then I had my brother who was doing football freestyle.
19:08He told me, hey, this is another art where you can learn, you can progress, and I think
19:15you can also be happy.
19:19I play on the street with a lot of football freestyle.
19:29When I arrived in Louisiana, I couldn't speak English at all.
19:33I could only say, hello, my name is Abu.
19:37And I was like, oh, I need to learn English so I can do things by myself.
19:43So, being a loser, I really helped me to grow as an artist and to learn.
19:50This world is brand new.
19:51So when we start with this, we need at least five-day projects because it's slippery.
19:57So, it's a good challenge.
20:01It's slippery.
20:03For the premiere, everyone at IHQ, they say Abu is struggling with makeup.
20:10So we need to go step by step.
20:12We need to find the proper way of getting him where we want.
20:23This proximity we have with Montreal is good because that'll help every artist develop
20:30what they are doing.
20:32I love the challenge and today they come to give me some feedbacks.
20:39So, we just gave you your review of things you need to work on.
20:44This is how you apply your makeup right now.
20:46See the shape of the eyebrows.
20:49Make sure that they're not descending because otherwise it's going to make you look a little
20:52bit sad on stage.
20:55When I arrived, to be honest, I wasn't expecting to do a makeup before performing on stage.
21:01As men, we are not used to do a makeup.
21:04So, for me, it was like something strange.
21:07I thought you come, you do your act and then you go home.
21:11So, eye shadow should be here and not solo.
21:15Okay, okay.
21:16But Mary's, she was important because when I arrived, I didn't know my makeup was mandatory.
21:26I was really afraid to put the pens on my eyes, so it was really difficult and plus
21:32to remember every step, it was hard.
21:36Okay, when you draw the black line on your eyes, make it a bit more thick because when
21:41you blend it, then it gets, it disappears.
21:43We don't see it as much.
21:44Yes.
21:45Stressful moment for him to have me at the back of him always.
21:49Is it?
21:49Yeah.
21:51My role was really to develop the makeup concept and after to teach all of the artists
21:57how to execute their own makeup before the show.
21:59At Cirque du Soleil, the acrobats, artists, musicians, they do their own makeup before each show.
22:04Considering we have around 50 artists per show, it would take a lot of hair and makeup artists
22:10to prepare all of them if we would do it that way.
22:13So, usually when I do this, I use left here and then I use the right hand as well, so
22:22both
22:22hands can do the makeup on both sides.
22:25Haven't seen that much.
22:27Yeah?
22:27Yeah.
22:28That's it.
22:28Most of the artists was coming from the circus school and gymnasts take competition.
22:34So, for me, it was totally different because freestyle is something coming from the streets.
22:39You are your own trainer.
22:42So, yeah, I was afraid about the judgment.
22:46They would say I'm not enough good, so they will not keep me.
22:51Yeah.
22:52Okay, let's try it.
22:53This way, right?
22:55This way.
22:56Yes.
22:57Yeah, it's okay.
22:58This will blend.
22:59Yeah.
23:04I feel like now, he has it nailed down.
23:08Now, 10 years later, I'm still here.
23:12It takes time, of course, to trust yourself and having that confidence as well.
23:27I think to work in Cirque du Soleil and to work in Lucia, we are constantly working to
23:33do best every night.
23:37My name is Majo Cornejo, I'm the singer of the show Lucia.
23:41For me to work in a show that talks about my country, Mexico, and my culture, makes
23:47me take every aspect of this work, how do I say, very personally.
23:52Make sure the voices, we hear every single word clearly.
23:57Yeah, I feel pressure, like, to have all the people from Creation here and all the artistic
24:03team here watching us.
24:06Andale.
24:06You want to come with us?
24:07Welcome.
24:08The new guys.
24:09It's been a while.
24:10Simon Carpentier is the composer of the music in Lucia.
24:15He's here, yeah, just to check the new music, the new musicians.
24:19So I just wanted to say, even if we sometimes have some challenges, you're still going strong
24:27and all the moves and all that.
24:28I have lots of notes for the mix and the hows, though.
24:33We have some issues sometimes with the vocals.
24:36The voice has to be on top of things and then the piano is less present than it used to
24:42be.
24:42It might be something little.
24:45It's very important.
24:46But we're going to work on that.
24:48So let's do a few sound checks.
25:05It's your tempo or the piano, you don't have a click on that.
25:08No, but it's really like the acrobats time.
25:10So we are following them all the time.
25:13Like if they take more time in the movements, we have to wait for them.
25:17You need to meet in the middle.
25:19That's what I mean.
25:21I always try to follow the acrobats and like to feel their energy.
25:26I understand.
25:27But I think we should go more with the music than them because it gets in your head.
25:34I think if we are not connected with the acrobats, this doesn't work.
25:39Eventually, you're going to help them too.
25:41Let's go.
25:42Let's move on.
25:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:44I try to follow them, but at the same time, they don't want us to be too slow.
25:50So we are trying like to be there.
25:53My advice would be respectfully, you don't need to follow them.
25:58I can feel that I have like two bosses, like the acrobats and also Simone.
26:06Can we hear the voice?
26:08We will see what's going to happen.
26:11Ole!
26:21I think that now that we are in Montreal, we all have a lot of notes and a lot of
26:26different
26:27points of view.
26:29Yeah, we are all doing our best.
26:34The biggest challenge for me to be in these moments, I think it's like I'm far from the
26:40family all the time and far from Mexico.
26:43I think it's the hardest part to be part of Lucia.
26:56Today I called my dad. I was just feeling like lost.
27:20My dad and my mom are both musicians, so they get it.
27:29My dad, he's an amazing person. He's always like working and fighting for his dreams and also
27:37like for my dreams.
27:47To live through the screen because you are not there for the important moments like when my sister got married,
27:56I couldn't go.
27:58When my grandma passed away and I couldn't go, I was so mad and disappointed. It was really sad for
28:07me.
28:09These are the things that sometimes we don't talk about it.
28:14Bye.
28:15Bye.
28:16You have to sacrifice a lot of things like to live your dream and to be far from the people
28:23that you love. It's hard.
28:36I think we're all really grateful to have Danielle here to hear what the creators have to say and to
28:42make the show better.
28:44We need to go to first position and turning.
28:48It actually gives me personally motivation to want to jump higher and to do better and to perform harder tricks.
28:56I definitely feel more a part of the swing team, so much more than hoops because that's where my roots
29:02are.
29:02That's why I came to Lucia, to do swing to swing. So I'm ready to get back to it.
29:08Turn table's moving.
29:16I'll do a single salter, so it's like just with one swing and then I flip and then I come
29:20back to the same swing.
29:24Oliva's been training a trick that he calls a single salter gainer.
29:30I just want you, before you go, to step on the mat and work with...
29:36Yeah.
29:36We were working there for like a year and then she ended up falling off the swing.
29:44So now we need to work with her, you know, to rebuild her trust, to do that trick again.
29:54In thrones.
29:56Yeah, the last time I tried the gainer trick I went to the hospital, but I don't quit easily.
30:01We see the signs there of stress because mentally she's not ready.
30:07It was very scary, but I'm doing it and I do plan to start training it again a bit more.
30:14Hey.
30:15No.
30:16That was not bad, huh?
30:18And know more about the trick now and I'm better at the trick for the fall, but it will definitely
30:23take some time to gather that courage again.
30:28She never did this jump without lunch.
30:32She's been training for two years.
30:36I don't want to jinx it like I did last time, but I have another jump that I'm kind of
30:40working on.
30:42It's from my seat position and it's the back layout.
30:45So I've been training this one for a long time now.
30:48Way longer than the gainer jump and so we switched back.
30:53All right, ready?
30:55All right, ready?
31:02Now repeat.
31:10Good Olivia.
31:12Olivia, she bows back so quick so I think the memories of the trauma she had there, I think that
31:18would not affect.
31:19She's an amazing acrobat.
31:21But the last one was very good.
31:24And I still like that in the show, huh?
31:26After swing training, it's like, okay, yeah, I'm ready for this.
31:37After meeting with Daniele, I don't feel like it's a responsibility.
31:42I feel it's more of a conversation with my team.
31:47A gente começa a treinar parada de mão.
31:50Well, Daniele asked me to take charge.
31:53Let's go.
31:54So today, that's what I plan to do.
32:01It was a bit too close.
32:09So now, close your eyes and think the box is still there.
32:13It's 45 centimeters.
32:16That's from here.
32:17He should catch at least here.
32:19Chris, can we do some frontside?
32:25Three.
32:29Frontside.
32:29Okay, let's go.
32:34Awesome.
32:35She had the height.
32:37She had the time.
32:38She had everything.
32:38But when they caught, she still struggled to pull it on the handstand.
32:42And this will let her put the hip on.
32:45Naomi's very calm.
32:47Chris, he likes to talk a lot, give a lot of feedback.
32:51I think this is prettier because you make the whole element of a one thing.
32:54And in the handstand...
32:55If I don't feel these arms, I cannot help you.
32:58There is a progression.
32:59If we get the handstand really solid, this will not be a problem also.
33:03But I'm afraid that if you make the move now, you kind of skip a step.
33:09I love Chris.
33:10He's got big opinions, but today, he's just not listening.
33:15Sometimes it's the language.
33:17When we're saying something and we're thinking it's clear,
33:20we end up figuring out that he didn't understand anything.
33:27Daniele asked me to take charge, but clearly some of them don't want to take direction from me.
33:32And I'm not sure what to do.
33:36After practicing the tricks a few times with Chris,
33:40now I'm feeling a little bit far from the goal.
33:43So, yeah, mixed feelings.
33:53We're in Montreal.
33:55All eyes are on us, especially from IHQ.
33:57And making sure that the show is in tip-top shape.
34:01And that applies for me as well.
34:03Now we need your eye.
34:06Last I measured, I was 191.
34:08And I really held onto it.
34:11Perfect.
34:1593 kilos.
34:16The first time I was measured for Cirque du Soleil, I was 21.
34:20Right on the arrow, this one.
34:23Bigfoot.
34:24I was super young.
34:26I was, you know, super thin.
34:28And over the last eight years, my body's changed.
34:32Can I give you this to wear?
34:34Beautiful.
34:34It was blue suits.
34:35We've had to do another measurement and get all the costumes changed.
34:38Because I'm not the little kid that I was when I first joined the tour.
34:42I'm here.
34:43Perfect.
34:44Blue.
34:45Come in front of the mirror.
34:50I think I'm very lucky that my body is the way that it is.
34:55Because it separates me from everyone else.
34:58All the other acrobats are of a shorter stature, strong, bouncy.
35:03I like to think that my length, the people in the back row really get a good view of the
35:07trick.
35:09Oop-a-lay.
35:1096.8.
35:14Okay, return.
35:1738.8.
35:20What are you feeling out?
35:21What are these?
35:22It's the weight.
35:23The weight of the artist.
35:30Yeah.
35:35We had to change profile.
35:38Nelson.
35:39Are you the heaviest tube diver?
35:42Obviously.
35:43But in the world, that was how I was highest.
35:45What are you going to do?
35:47Nothing.
35:48But it's this number.
35:49What are we going to do about that?
35:51I want to try it.
35:51You want me to get to the 100 mark?
35:54I'm going to lift it up.
35:55Be the only 100 kilo acrobat in the world.
35:59I'll do it.
36:00Bring it on.
36:01I'm scared.
36:02I'll load a McDonald's tonight.
36:05You know, circus is a dangerous career.
36:08So there's different elements that we have to consider to ensure injury prevention.
36:12It's more dangerous when I'm casting someone who's not going to fit the acrobatic profile.
36:20I'll yell at you when the cameras aren't rolling.
36:32I think my biggest takeaway from the note session with Daniele would have to be being very empathetic towards the
36:39audience.
36:40I'm really taking a lot of care and respecting the fact that they've paid all that money to come and
36:44see you,
36:44which is something that I think I'll really put into my performance.
36:50I wouldn't say it's a hope.
36:52It's more the end goal is to just come back as the clown.
36:57It's not something that I hope for.
36:59It's something that I'm going to do.
37:02Have a great show tonight, everybody.
37:04Nelson is set.
37:06Copy, Nelson.
37:08Good job!
37:09Standby, fade to black and Nelson in.
37:11Go.
37:19There's no need to project outwards as much as I am.
37:23They pay to come and see me.
37:25I don't have to make sure that they're watching.
37:29As I did the show, it was, okay, empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy.
37:32And I was like, where can I be empathy?
37:34And I picked the audience member and I think they had a sore leg or something.
37:39And so I was like, there's the moment.
37:45Show the care in that moment.
37:47Show the care in that moment.
37:50And boom!
37:57There's an opportunity to take advantage and make your clown a bit better, then I absolutely have to do it.
38:02I'm going to be a bit better.
38:06I'm going to be a bit better.
38:07Nelson is not afraid about judgement.
38:11So, it's beautiful.
38:14To be an understudy, your colleagues can always compare you to the one that was there before.
38:21I find it is an act of generosity for an acrobat to be an understudy and to save the show.
38:38Before we jump every show, you take time.
38:42I visualize, I breathe, I pray, I watch myself do it in my head before I do it.
38:50You do it. You're not scared. I'm prepared for this. I train for this.
39:05Also, I think what's really important is the team.
39:08I really don't think I could have gotten back up on the swing if I didn't have a team that
39:13I felt so safe with.
39:17There's so many different parts of Olivia and that's what makes her so special.
39:21I can see her focus and I can see her confidence when she does her specialty.
39:27She sometimes has a moment where she's feeling the nerves and then, you know, she does it anyway.
39:43For me, the make-up is different.
39:47In the beginning, it was harder because it took me three hours.
39:51Now I'm around 30 minutes, so it's a lot of progress from the start.
40:11A boo, the energy he brings to football, you see the love, the passion he has for that, you know.
40:17And then he shows that on stage and it's beautiful.
40:31During the show, the musicians have the opportunity to improvise a lot, especially like during the acrobatic moments.
40:39And I have to make it work for both the acrobats and also Simone, but also I have to respect
40:45what I have in my mind, in my heart, what I'm living.
40:52This is the first time I hear there was this discussion between the composer and Maho, but for us, it's
40:58very important that there is no big drastic change into the rhythm of the song.
41:05It's very important for the music and the routine to really be in symbiose.
41:11We trust Maho.
41:13Maho will know how to set the pace for the song.
41:26All right.
41:34The last few shows went great.
41:37I really feel like I'm finding my rhythm.
41:39Oh, that's cheating.
41:41Restart the game.
41:42For the first time, I didn't feel stressed.
41:45I didn't feel nervous.
41:50it almost feels like it's second nature now I can really enjoy the performance as opposed to being
41:55worried about the performance feels good I love the attention of course I would never want to
42:07steal Eric's job from him but I would be so thankful if he would share the character with
42:13me I love a bit of that three weeks ago I had my appendix removed it was a premier and
42:27I couldn't
42:28be there which I didn't like I wrote this track it's mine I know every corner of it it's my
42:41coat
42:41someone else is wearing next on Cirque life the fitness this happens twice a year it is mandatory
42:54for the artists it's a way for sir to make sure that the artists are still able to do what
42:59they
43:00do if you fail the test and you cannot perform Alex is very special we don't know how to really
43:08test him
43:09his body is out of this planet with Zora we are trying to get the strict the split coin you're
43:18upside down you feel your weight shifted very far forward and you can't see the floor so it is really
43:24challenging now I come back and I show them the best now make us laugh Nelson thinks he gets it
43:35it's I
43:35think it's more mind games than an actual exercise
44:05you
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