It’s the 26th of June 2013, and we are 2 days
away from celebrating my Nomad Forms’ birthday.
What a better place to accompany Eclectic Wanders on this
beautiful day than attending the China Acrobatic Circus.
We took the 19.00 bus from Beirut Central District heading
to the theater at Beiteddine Palace, a 19th century Lebanese house,
which also transforms into the Lebanese president’s summer presidential palace.
“The China National Acrobatic Troupe was founded in 1950. It
actively combines tradition with innovation. It not only preserves many
traditional programs, but also integrates acrobatics, music, dance, drama,
Chinese kungfu into acrobatics to create many new productions such as
"Chinese Soul", "Legend in Wonderland", "The Legend of
Magic", "Top Acrobatic Class", "Spectacular
Acrobatics", "The Star Dream" and "Splendid". Till
now, the China National Acrobatic Troupe has won 48 gold medals including
Golden Clown, President Award, Gold Magic Prize, etc. in various international
and domestic competitions. Until 2008, it has visited all major cities in China
and set foot in more than 115 countries and regions in the world. Its spirit of
learning, improving and developing acrobatic art has won high appraise from all
over the world”.
The above briefing is how Beiteddine Festivals describe
their hosting show. However, we, Nomad Forms, describe something else.
We saw music, we heard dancing, we felt acrobats, and we
clapped on their beats. Some say it is breathtaking. We say we kept grasping on
to our breaths as not to let them go and omit one scene, because we could not.
We witnessed the love of obsession, and we observed balls
circumscribing boneless people. We perceived anti-gravity transfiguring in
front of us- women climbing downwards on posts, men flying amongst swaying
posts and bodies warping helicoidally on each other.
It goes without saying that the show was china in its acrobatics, in its legends, in its reflective colors, its royal yellow and revolutionary red. We travelled to china for 3 captivating hours and returned back home carrying happy sceneries and memories to share with you, writerly readers of our blog.
It goes without saying that the show was china in its acrobatics, in its legends, in its reflective colors, its royal yellow and revolutionary red. We travelled to china for 3 captivating hours and returned back home carrying happy sceneries and memories to share with you, writerly readers of our blog.
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