Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” Takes Stage in Denver

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Cirque du Soleil has pitched its enormous blue and yellow tent in Denver for its newest big top production, “Amaluna.”

The show features some of the most inventive acrobatics, aerialists, jugglers, elaborate costume design and electric music. And for the first time in a Cirque du Soleil production, uneven bars take stage.

Amara Defilippo is one of the performers flying from bar to bar. Coming from a collegiate background to stage is a challenge she embraces. “In college I was only competing a few times a year. Now I am doing ten shows a week. Which is very demanding on the body but so much fun because you are performing in front of a new audience every night.”

Another twist for the show- it’s not only about women and dedicated to women, it’s a show mostly of women. Seventy percent of the performers are women and the band is 100 percent female.

Performers deliver plenty of hold your breath kinds of moments. Whether by showcasing incredible strength, balance or daredevil moves, you will find members of the cast continually break bounds.

For tickets: Click Here. The show runs through August 25.

Fun Facts:

• The tent takes 8 days to set up and 3 days to take down
• In 1984, 73 people worked for Cirque du Soleil. Today, the business has 5,000 employees worldwide, including more than 1,300 artists.
• All 120 of the cast and crew of Amaluna represent a total of 17 countries:
• A total of 65 trucks transport close to 2,000 tons of equipment that Amaluna carries around.

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  Cirque Du Soleil: Amaluna. Courtesy: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil