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Article: Circus + dance = Cirque du Soleil.(workings of famous troupe)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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ON A LATE SUMMER DAY IN LAS VEGAS, A NERVOUS NATASHA Chao is learning perhaps her most gravity-defying Feat to date with Cirque du Soleil. Trained in gymnastics with a touch of classical ballet, the 28-year-old performer is the first woman to perform the Red Bird character in Cirque's Mystere. The feat she is learning was in the original choreography for the show and has since been dropped, it is a headfirst free fall of sixty feet, in which she curves her spine upright at the last minute before contact with a salary net.
Chao enjoys performing Red Bird, for, with her flair for the outrageous, she is comfortable with the interpretation and improvisation that ...