Cirque Eloize in Dubai

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.