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The coronavirus outbreak is now a global pandemic.

The list of closings and activities being suspended is growing from coast to

coast. Coronavirus concerns are already taking a major toll on the country's

tourism industry.

Cirque du Soleil is filing for bankruptcy.

It will immediately lay off more than 3 ,400 workers who had been previously

furloughed.

Yes, can you hear me now?

Oh, good, good, good, good. So are you still in Vegas?

There's a lot going on, as you know.

So I was planning to do a meeting on the 25th, and we'll take

it from there.

Within 48 hours, we went from 44 shows around the world to zero

shows.

We all panicked.

We actually made the decision.

that we needed to let go 95 % of our people.

How do you do that?

Everybody understands that the business that we're in is actually human

performance.

Our human being is at the center of everything we do.

So I was wondering, will our people be forgiving us?

It feels like home to be in the air.

You can forget anything that's going on in the outside world, like just be

present.

My COVID investment was a lollipop lira.

Mostly it's to keep me sane, but...

Also, it's important to me to work on something aerial while we're in

quarantine.

Solo trapeze is my primary discipline in Cirque du Soleil.

When COVID hit, it was a really uncertain time.

It's really, really difficult to live without purpose.

I'm a single dad. I have two children.

And I took advantage of this time to spend time with the kids.

I'm an artist coach for an act that is called Batou.

During the shows, I didn't have many chances to put my children to bed.

So, just grateful for them.

I'm trying to get $1 .40.

I got the $1. It's in my thing.

But financially, it's been hard.

I'm on unemployment now.

First time in my life that I've been unemployed.

I've done this show for 15 years.

During the pandemic, I started teaching Zoom classes.

I think I've had a lot of support, though. You know, like my family always

supported me.

My dogs support me.

I don't know if I can do this still, but I'll try. I haven't warmed up yet.

Cool.

A little rusty, but that's all right.

There's nothing like what we do.

not being able to train the way we should be able to train.

That's frustrating.

So we're going to start with plie.

Six, seven, eight. You got plie.

When it first started, you know, we're like, all right, guys, we'll see you in

couple weeks, you know.

And then it kind of kept on going, and it felt like we were chasing a carrot.

Mentally, it was tough.

not knowing when we would be able to go back to work, if we would be able to go

back to work.

Now it's time that people get that 90 minutes of forgetting about their

and dream a little bit. And I think that's what we all want, intermission to

over.

Are we ready?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we definitely have.

We've been holding on making the employment offers to people until the

announcement is done. We're already a week behind.

The governor made his announcement earlier this week opening up 100 %

We'll probably know Tuesday afternoon what the actual guidelines and protocols

will be.

The reopening of our first show in...

It's so important for everyone.

This is the revival of the company. This is the major announcement that we'll

have to make.

If we send the letters out on Thursday, we're expecting people to show up to

work on Monday.

It's compressing things a little tight for us from a health and safety

perspective and bringing the artists back.

Will tickets be able to be on sale on Wednesday?

We're working on that. I don't have a final date yet. Okay.

Governor Sisolak said this week that he intends to have all counties return to

full capacity by June 1st.

Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group confirmed they closed an agreement with

lenders, giving them a solid foundation to successfully relaunch.

So I guess we're ready.

Thank you all for being with us today.

All of us have been waiting for this moment.

for over 400 days now.

That was very tough for all of us. And finally, we are meeting for good news.

I'm here today to announce that the curtain will officially raise again,

starting in Las Vegas.

We want people to forget about this pandemic and come with us to celebrate

the comeback of Cirque du Soleil and enjoy life again.

Tell the world we are back.

Now the hard work starts and that process is a struggle, but it's a

struggle. And we get to get back to doing what we love. And I'm so excited

for that.

Let's go.

Hello, everyone.

I can't express how happy I am to welcome you all back to this room.

Let's make history all over again. Welcome back.

I'm very excited that we're going to bring back this beautiful show back on

stage. During May, you're going to focus mainly at reintegrating your acts.

And slowly in June, we're going to start to work on the artistic aspect of that

beautiful diamond.

You will also see that some of your colleagues are gone. They will

not come back. And new artists will come in.

That's all I have to say for today.

Thank you.

So nice to see you.

We have a lot to do in a very short amount of time.

Next week, all of the technical crew is going to start coming back.

They have to get re -familiarized with the space and clean things up because

they haven't been touched for a year.

Every single costume we have has some kind of elastic in it or something

probably rotten.

And a large percentage will need work.

This is the band room.

We're raising the height of these partitions to mitigate the spread of the

virus.

Lights are not pointing where they're supposed to point anymore.

And when you've got thousands of pictures, that kind of thing can be hard

notice.

It's going to be an intense time.

We've got eight weeks until opening night.

We're going to get our ass kicked.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. All the way up. Good girl.

What's wrong with the baby hands now?

I know, right?

Huh?

You got to work on those for sure, huh? My hands will be fine. It's my knees

that are going to rip.

Is that what we're waiting on for the stage?

Yeah. The water? Yeah, there's no water.

Is the pool drink?

Can you see?

It's like a funnel, yeah? Yeah.

Brings back memories.

When this show was created, they wanted to use water as the medium.

There's something about the water and the flow and the beginnings in life that

make this unique and fascinating.

This has this rubberized surface that you can move and dance and perform on,

then it sinks, exposing the water here, which is why you see all these holes in

it, so that the water can extrude through it when it moves.

Each one of these lifts can lift about 100 ,000 pounds.

All these lifts move individually, creating a constantly moving stage.

There's just something unique and magical about a stage made of water.

When we did O, the water was the great surprise.

In the history of Cirque, we were at the top of 15 years of evolution, and

so awe was a kind of synthesis of all what we had been through, the fears, the

joy, the difficulties of life.

During the creation of awe, I tried to paint images that think,

images that talk.

The show, it's about...

The memory of a theater.

In this theater, a lot of stories have been told.

And it's why you can meet a lot of different characters. It's why we can

to have a wedding and a funeral.

It is why we take an audience member and he is pulled into a

journey in the memory of the theater.

In O,

It's always about humankind, human being, about life.

And the water element force you to meditate. And it's so magical, the

water, so predictable, so dangerous also, the water.

The show would never be what it is without each individual making it

improve.

On the top, 2150, 21, 275.

I would say my life definitely revolved around artistic swimming. I'm in the

pool every single day, whether it's on stage with O, or whether it's coaching,

or whether it's training for myself, or whether it's helping my club in

California.

I'm away to California.

There's this mom and dad that got kicked off the flight, and they were super

wasted, but...

The mom was offering everyone Twizzlers.

And all I could think was, don't let her go.

I need that kid.

425s on 25.

I grew up in Syracuse, New York, and I was a gymnast. And at one point, my

sister wanted to try synchronized swimming, now called artistic swimming.

It was at a public pool over the summer. I had nothing else to do. And it

progressed from there.

That really is one of the most demanding sports in the world.

You have to be an acrobat. You have to be a grace swimmer. You have to have the

power of a water polo player and the grace of a dancer.

I mean, you don't get to breathe.

So all this time you're underwater.

You're not breathing.

You're not able to touch the bottom. You're throwing people.

two or three meters out of the pool with nothing but kind of the momentum of the

athletes underwater.

Meet the U .S. team, the champion aquamades, and meet this year's star

19 -year -old Bill May from Syracuse, New York, who, despite his obvious

differences, is one of the best synchronized swimmers in the world.

For most of my career, there weren't a lot of men that swam.

And then in 2000, I was like, I want to go to the Olympics.

And then they made a vote not to include men in the Olympics.

So that was discouraging, but I'm thinking, okay, I still love it. And

2003 and 2004, I was contacted by casting. And they asked if I wanted to

Cirque du Soleil. And I'm like, you know, this could be the opportunity of

life.

And it was like a dream.

I wanted to be the best I could possibly be, no matter where that journey would

take me.

You know, if someone tells me I can't do something, I'm going to prove them

wrong.

During the pandemic, when all these pools are closed and you couldn't be

than six feet, normally artistic swimmers are only a few inches apart.

So when you have to try to do what you have to do from six feet away from each

other and not have the ability to lift, you know, somehow you go off the train.

Okay, guys, ready?

Five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four. Five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four.

It's six, it's on.

One,

two, three.

4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

1, 2, 3, 4.

Okay, well, this part was really good. The rest of it was not good.

Okay, stop.

Guys, you've got to get back into the mindset.

of being able to hold that pattern. We have to start getting awareness of each

other again.

And they're making me nervous. It feels like we have a lot to do.

We take it day by day. We've got five days in a week.

So here we have some grapes.

It was like an experiment to see if you could make wine in the desert.

Very cliche, you know, like... I'm from France, and I used to do gymnastics

there. I did an audition for Cirque du Soleil in Paris.

They invited me to Montreal for one of the acts at GO and Las Vegas.

We have a lot of friends whose performing careers have come to an end

abruptly without...

having their last bow without knowing that their show was going to close.

A lot of artists were in the position that he was in, being on P1 visas where

you legally cannot work for a company other than the one that brought you

on that visa.

So I feel so lucky, and at the same time I have this responsibility to do it as

best as we can to make it work. So if tickets are selling for our shows...

It will work for our friend shows, you know, that are also like waiting for

phone call to say like, all right, you're going to be back.

Over the pandemic, we had some sort of technical mishap, which resulted in

flooding, and they had to refloor one of our training rooms.

Time is of the essence right now.

We took advantage of a local school here.

They're the only place in town that I know of that has a cradle, which is what

really we're training here.

Amber, what you want to do is you want to just sit into it and then push, okay?

Sometimes I have to stop myself and realize, okay, what you're doing is

really dangerous, but I love it.

It's a zen for me. It's kind of like putting your headphones on and getting

mood.

It helps get my mind off things.

As a kid, I had very severe ADHD.

My mom...

oh my gosh, this kid has so much energy.

What am I going to do with it? And she put me in gymnastics, and I took off

there.

I was involved in gymnastics for 23 years total.

I was at the end of my term for university, and my coach goes, hey,

what about Cirque du Soleil?

And I go, what?

What Cirque du Soleil? I never had heard about it in my life. Two weeks later, I

was in Montreal training.

It was such a happy moment for me in my life.

I wish I could go back in time to that experience.

We were a big team.

And I miss it.

I had been dealing with a divorce prior to COVID, and then COVID happened.

As time kept going on, it got tougher mentally.

From 6 in the morning until probably midnight, I literally sat staring

at the freaking backyard.

I should have been in touch more. I should have reached out more. I just

shut down.

So getting back to work and kind of trying to forget what happened, you

know how important that is to me.

All right, what's the goal?

There's a mark up there. Just go to that mark.

She's going to coil the rope on her lap. Am I? All right.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

Holy crap, I didn't think I had that in me

Me and my partner, we've never worked together before, so it's all new for us,

but we are doing the same skills that we would do normally in the show.

My ex -partner was my ex -husband, actually, and unfortunately he was let

You're working too much.

Let him throw you. Okay. You just need to, like, feel you and afterwards give

you more from leg. Like, you know, not the arms, but just from legs to the

Okay.

Okay.

All right. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Yay, that was better.

Yeah. Yeah.

I'm ready. Okay.

Up.

Okay, cool. I can drive my legs a lot more.

But that was better. I feel like I felt him a lot more.

Yeah, I just need to learn how to, like, let him do the work.

I think I got in the bad habit of, with the other partner, just working too

much. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, cool.

You're just trading one sports car for another sports car.

Upgrade. Yes. Upgrade and do it.

Okay, cool.

One, two.

Two, switch, kick.

Two.

Switch to three.

Good.

Breathe in.

Ding, ding, ding.

Normal round is three minutes, so we try to, otherwise we're both.

Like this.

We met backstage at the show. The thing is, when you're a technician like myself

and the artists are all in makeup and stuff, it's kind of tough to really know

who's who at first, but she's got a really...

giggly, high -pitched voice, and that was my first, I was like, that girl

always laughing, always in a good mood.

I've kind of been a circus baby the whole way.

I went to circus school in my home country of Australia.

Every step I took in my career was to get to Cirque du Soleil.

Every year in Paris, they have a competition called Cirque du Demand.

This is like the Olympics of circus.

Trippies is the best feeling. That weightlessness.

It is like flying.

It's when I feel like really alive.

I ended up winning the whole competition, so Circus LA scouted me.

And that was over 10 years ago.

So this is Emma's first time on the trapeze in a long time. So we're going

very, very slow.

She's going to get a little, maybe a little motion sickness.

It could happen. It could happen. Like sometimes you get a little seasick after

a while.

Okay. I pulled you too hard, you mean?

Yeah. Okay.

Al is a support system and a teammate and also a coach. It's so many different

hats that he wears, but that's the true beauty of a launcher. They kind of know

what you're going to do before you do it, so they can preempt. Maybe your

nervous habit is to go early or do something weird with your technique.

And he'll kind of like know that instinctually.

Okay.

So here's the drop to the back.

And stand on the trapeze.

Ooh.

That repped right out of my hands.

Welcome back. Thank you. Nice job. That felt good.

Ice feels better, I'm sure.

Yeah. How you doing? You good? Oh, yeah. I got a zinger.

Oh. Like my hole.

Yeah. That's why I let go.

Mm -hmm.

I forgot about how much I burned.

Come on. It's been a year.

Lifters are clear to go out. Yes.

Clear slack.

Complete. Eddie, can you let the divers know that lift 4 is coming up to minus

10 -5?

Copy that.

And then you have to take the floor to Russian Swing High.

The floor going to Russian Swing High.

Come on.

All right. Breaking through.

Break's over.

Oh!

Work time.

All right.

Mentally, you have to remember this is not something that's simple, or they'd

sell it at Toys R Us or Russian Swing.

We're clear to jump?

I've been diving all my life, so for me doing a triple somersault is so easy.

That is part of my nature.

We're talking to the contortionist, and we're like, oh, how do you do that?

That's so amazing. That's so difficult.

And they're like, it's so easy. You just bend like this, and that's it.

I used to do diving shows in Colombia and Central America.

And obviously I wanted to be a diver for all my life.

I was competing for my state.

I was three times national champion.

And then I read that they needed divers for Cirque du Soleil, which was a

completely life -changing experience for me.

Eventually, Cirque du Soleil wanted me to play this character, Philemon.

Last Philemon, I start from the audience.

I need to immerse myself into this world.

I've been in the show for 16 years, but I still don't feel like it. I still

feel, like, fresh, and especially now, coming back after this year.

Okay, when we are ready to pull our watches, let's get back in service.

This is full speed.

Full speed back this way.

I'm going to send it home, and that's it for this test sequence.

I'm definitely nervous.

Mentally, I already know that I can do this, but am I still at that same level?

96 .6.

Submitted. You're in. Awesome. Thank you.

They're turning up.

And they're doing that there.

I

always

wanted to dance.

You can express yourself without speaking.

You can move people and command their attention.

I start dancing with my brother.

We used to watch Yo! MTV raps and, you know, every Friday some type of music

video would come out like Janet or Michael and we'd recreate all the videos

learn all the dances together.

We'd have the high top fade and the polka dot shirts and the hammer pants

the patent leather shoes.

There was a dance studio around the corner and...

I'd go and just stand and look in the window of the dance studio, and finally

one day the dance teacher came out, Betsy, and she was like, all right, come

let's see what she can do, and from there it was on.

As performers, you're not you anymore.

You're a part of this world, and you're a part of this character until that

curtain closes.

Salut!

I can't see. Yes, that's a work in show.

When

you

do the peacock figure.

Yeah.

For me?

Because I talk here.

Yeah. And then I look.

It's nice if you can stop one second before moving on. Okay.

For me, that is a sentence, and what you do after is another sentence.

Yeah.

Okay. And even clearer.

Clearer, yeah. Yeah.

Right after trapeze, we quick change into this costume.

The red dress character is somebody who's beautiful but broken inside.

who is incapable of giving or receiving love.

Nice. Nice, Emma. Nice.

Try to avoid.

This is Nancy for me.

I try to feel like she has a bad energy that she's... Trying

to escape her skin.

Play with that, then. I like that.

I like it.

Yeah, continue.

The idea is that you are the master of fire, that you control the fire.

And it works, yes. And it works when you have a lot of energy.

Yeah, for sure. I'm not sure about...

The drums, the drum section.

That was something that I added, and it was actually getting a not a bad

reaction.

I have the impression that suddenly we're losing the character.

I mean, that was kind of the joke of the contrast.

Think about something else, yes. Think about something else.

Okay, we're good? Yeah.

Okay, good. We'll do it again. Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs,

welcome back to Cirque du Soleil.

Oh no, honey, these are custom!

This is the one that she was wearing. So this is not supposed to be here. It's

supposed to be here. And by this being high, it's pulling this all the stuff. I

know, but it was tight before.

So I just thought, you know, now we have like a little time to fix it maybe.

Okay, let's go ahead and fix it.

Oh my God, this has been a minute.

Yeah, this looks amazing.

Thank goodness.

It still looks incredible.

Yeah. Your cappers, please.

What do you think our masks are going to look like that we have to wear on

stage? I don't know.

I asked for a sweet leather one.

Of course you did.

You can't see this part.

I got my finger back here so there will be no pinching.

Okay, this one's a tight one.

Oh yeah, mama, get used to this feeling again.

One step closer

to pre -pandemic normalcy.

Capacity and social distancing rules are dropped as of today.

The state does allow businesses the choice to decide whether they will still

require masks inside or not.

You want some x -rays?

I've had eight surgeries.

Injuries from my craft?

This is my lumbar, so my back, right shoulder, back, back, shoulder,

back, and knee.

I have to remember, I'm older, and I'm kind of making sure that I'm, like,

extra, extra, extra, extra careful.

Don't say it won't be a problem. Gymnastics won't be a problem.

Oh, yeah?

Oh, yeah.

All right.

I was a competitive gymnast, being part of the Olympic team from Romania.

I got an invitation to be a part of it after I stopped competing.

Bateau is French for boat.

There's a parallel bar from gymnastics.

At the end, they have a cradle that comes from the circuit discipline.

It's not motorized. We actually push and stop the boat, and it does take all 12

of us to be in sync.

This is called the gymnast.

They don't usually miss this one.

Okay, go. Grab it. There you go. So I just said they don't usually, and then

go.

Yeah.

So that's how that goes.

Good?

Anything can go wrong because we are high in the air, and we are working with

another partner.

You can't have that as a habit, catching like he caught. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

How was work?

It was actually really good.

I had a moment where I sat on the boat and I just stared out at the audience

because I was like, is this really happening? Like, am I back?

Am I here?

We have rescue divers during the entire show.

If you were to watch underwater, it's a completely different show because

they're moving equipment.

They're helping to move performers from one side of the stage to the other.

They are catching performers that come into the water.

Their job is just as difficult and dangerous as ours.

Bill is set.

Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill.

Go.

We have to simulate what it's really going to be like with the brake release.

It's going to be slow.

I thought it was going to be a body bag.

Not the body bag, not the body bag. The backboard.

Can you please let the divers know that lifts one and three are going to plus

one foot?

This week's issue on the lift is a cylinder issue, which is the muscles

push them up and down.

So we found out.

that there is a problem with all of them, and that at any time they could

down. It puts a little pressure on us in this chair because we have lots of

different contingencies.

There's seven lifts in the show, and you take any one of them out or a

combination of them out, and the show is very different.

So there is a bit of tension calling the show because it could happen at any

time. So the whole time you're a bit on edge, and then you're ready to flip

to...

That version of the show.

We're doing that now.

My act is different now, so I'm attempting a more difficult finale

I created the trick. I was the first one to perform it, so that's why I want it

in my routine. Of course, I can...

go back if I feel like it's not ready or not consistent but for now that's the

goal to have that more difficult trick in there.

And I feel a responsibility to keep the show as beautiful and keep

the artistry there because that's what separates Cirque du Soleil from

traditional circus.

I'm definitely a person who has stage fright.

That's probably one of the biggest struggles that I have, is to be

my own ability.

I always worry, like, in the back of my mind, am I going to perform well, or am

I going to let the mental part get the best of me?

It's okay.

How's it?

That's beautiful.

Okay,

we're on the clock.

You okay?

My shoes.

You lost your shoes?

We need a towel.

So, he just pulled you in on that one. Or someone pulled in.

Flipped. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

Okay. Yeah.

That's okay.

I'll change and then... Okay.

How's your shoulder? He got you one hand and you're all right? No, no, I'm safe.

Okay. Just safe. Okay. Yeah.

You good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Sorry, Sarah. I saw him with one.

Amber, how was it? Did you do with our tour before?

Uh -uh, never.

Really? First time.

It's got to be hard to switch partners. Like, you're used to the way somebody

flies.

Yeah, I got to fix some things, definitely.

I like that.

And then, like, it would take me all the way, just keep going down, see? It

would take us past all these lakes and stuff.

Yeah. I started with one partner, and I had thought that that's who you're going

to follow through with. And then we had been training.

for a while, and then they said, okay, we're going to switch your partners. I

was like, okay, sure, no problem, but people

don't realize, hey, you know, things are going to happen because we are a new

partnership.

It's just, you know, we've got to find each other. We've got to get comfortable

because we've never flown together.

It would just be nice if they were like, okay, we understand this, but I think

it's... hey, we've got to be ready or we've got to do this and that.

And being rushed, it doesn't help that.

Let's see.

Oh, man, how old was I?

I think I was in second grade maybe.

My brother is awesome.

He is badass too.

We did everything together.

He had been in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Finally, he had come home, and I'm like, all right, cool.

I'm old enough. I can hang out with my brother.

One day before I went to training, he was on the couch. He was watching

something, and I could tell he wasn't really good.

You know, something was on his mind, and I stopped, and I just, before I walked

out, I looked at him, and I...

I wanted to tell him that I loved him, but that's not us, you know?

We're kind of rough and tough. Like, we don't really show our emotions.

But I had this really big, overwhelming feeling. I'm like, man, I just want to

say I love you.

And I didn't.

I didn't.

I didn't, and I went to training, and the whole day was off.

And blew out my ankle that night.

Just... Blew it out, and I was so upset.

I had just gotten in the house and got a phone call, and I answered it.

And it was his girlfriend, and she was just crying. She was, like, crazy.

I couldn't understand her. I was like, what?

Okay, what?

Like, I'm 18, and she's saying these things on the phone, and she says, you

know, he's been shot. And I'm like...

He was dead on scene, I believe, because he shot in the heart.

I was like, there's no way.

There's no way he's gone right now.

It's not possible.

I

was

like, what?

Why can't you fix it?

She makes me feel better.

All artists on stage, all artists in the theater.

We're not all here yet.

Let's start.

One, two, one, two. Tonight we're going to do from short animation

until the end of Clan 1.

We will stop and we will correct and then we will redo it again.

Well,

it's a bugger because now we're done.

No, no, no, no. Come on. I said come to the theater.

We're starting right now. We will not do animation.

We'll do all the rest, but we need to do Clown 1 as soon as possible.

Okay, bye.

He's at home.

They don't watch the schedule.

Everybody's here, except one.

Are we good with artists at places?

We do not have Emma at the trapeze.

Emma?

You scared me.

I was like, she's there.

Well, I wasn't sure if it was Kaylee and Amy. She's not there. No, we're trying

to find her.

There it is. Thank you. Effects 140. Ladies and gentlemen.

Okay. Stop, stop, stop.

Apple, apple.

I will work again with them.

They forgot everything we did last week.

Hey, Paul, as soon as we're done this run of fire knives, we're going to roll

straight back into doing another run of Sasha.

Is the 5 in the right position for Benedict?

We're going to have to move lift 5 up a few inches. Yes, so everything's set to

execute. And then we're going to go. 28 complete.

I'm going to ask you a question. Why is it so long?

We're just checking. They were asking about Vermicelli. If they're going and

they were asking Brito.

Wanted to know where we're starting from.

Okay, you answer.

That's okay.

If somebody wants to check on how and are in standby to do the catch.

Just changing tanks.

Brito has not arrived yet.

Hey, we just had an artist's collision.

John hit somebody.

Peppy? Are they okay?

Well, no. Do we need to hold? Is John okay?

He's okay.

Thank you.

FX230, go. He was not expecting somebody to be swimming there.

FX240, go.

John's swimming off.

Peppy?

We got PMED stage left.

Brain's not going to make it. He won't make it.

There was no empty square next to me. So let's...

He had no girl, you had no guy.

Let's talk about the problem. I'm going to solve it.

We have to work with the divers. They've never done this before.

Artists in the water. Artists in the water. Stage left.

It's the Titanic.

It's hard to starboard.

Titanic 10 times.

Pods 1, 2, and 3 coming in.

Holding complete.

We're setting up the trapeze on the upstairs platform, Adrian.

I'm ready.

That one,

it didn't look like he even made a connection with the... Did it wrap you?

Okay.

Now I'm on high alert here.

See, that was smooth.

That one

sucked.

That one picked me up.

We're kind of at the cutoff point of whether we can go forward with this

or go back.

It's a setback.

So we'll tell Pierre, are you going to go back to the original act?

We're going to have a different pick point for the lounge. We need to

that, so Joe's going to find some time.

So just put that in the past. Let's move on.

Yeah? Yeah.

Good girl.

So that's that.

We'll just make sure it's consistent, and then we'll put it back in. We'll

figure it out.

Don't be sorry. I'm sorry we couldn't do it now.

Yeah, me too. We worked so hard on it. I know.

We're so close.

We're still close. We're still close. And it's not off the table.

Well, for a premiere.

For a premiere, it's off the table, but we'll premiere it later.

We'll get it out there.

Okay?

All right.

This is a point. Just disappointment.

Eric, let's just run this one like this. Yeah.

And maybe we'll get them to practice a little bit.

Okay, let's do it. Okay.

The first spin of every day, you get like so dizzy, but then after you're

to go. It's like riding a bicycle.

It's actually, I love the feeling.

You just don't think about anything else. You just ride the wave.

Howdy, howdy, Roger.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

All right, let's chop her off.

The one thing that was with me all COVID.

My God, wow.

Put your step -by -step out in case you needed it. Definitely going to need it.

I'm coming.

Oh, you're coming.

I'm coming. I'm coming.

It feels like we just did this like a second ago. Welcome back to the first

of school, Charlie. Uh -huh.

Did you shave before or did you just shave?

I just shaved.

Baby face.

I used to do it like 15 minutes.

Jesus.

I like this side better, I think. Like this.

Hey, they're sisters, not twins.

I like it. Thank you, Amber. All done.

We had our Olympic trials today. Oh, yeah. How'd it go?

They didn't qualify it by 0 .2.

Shut your face.

Watch out, Bill. I'm going to beat you.

Are you almost done? I'm almost done, finally.

Ta -da!

Driving down Frank Sinatra and stopping and turning and looking at people.

They're just like, ah!

You know, people are already like, I don't know what happens at Vegas at 5 in

the morning. And then you're like, that is one crazy drag queen.

Very good.

16 years.

That's amazing.

We are going to look at some safety features and talk about some safety

So this first one is if we have an artist injured on stage and we stop the

you will see this.

That is your cue to leave the stage and go to the stage left training room. As

of June 25th, all fully vaccinated personnel, you no longer need to test or

masks. Yes.

A week from now, we will not be wearing masks.

Now we are at the phase where we need to run it.

Is it at the level it should be? No, not yet.

Because for me, it's not organic yet.

And for that, they need to do it.

The call is Voices for Clowns, Human Comets, and Musicians.

Winske 606, go.

Winske 607, go.

Clear to hook up.

Clear to hook up.

Clear to hook up.

Lit fault.

Thank you, lit fault.

Winchgate 608, go.

Clear right. Clear left.

Thank you.

Lift 5 again.

Lift 5 to bar 6.

Lifts will not clear, Joe.

Thank you.

To bar 6 on lift 5.

Aquatics, can we get a word on that?

We're clear on 5, right?

Yeah,

they're saying it's clear.

Don't move.

Don't move. Winskew 608 .5.

Go. Winskew 609. Go.

Still not clear?

Still not clear. Thank you.

So far, six on five. Lift off. Stay in your hoops. Lift off. Stay in your

We're going to do a water exit.

Water exit.

All right. Performers are going to exit into the water. Performers are going to

exit into the water.

Oops, there. And the guys are swimming to the gutter.

Yeah,

I mean, they can't clear it. They don't know what's going on.

What just happened?

A lift fault.

So the lift was stuck at the bottom of the pool.

So for our exit, we heard the calling stage manager say, water exit, water

Gutter bell.

Oh, it's a gutter bell.

And so we stopped and jumped in the water. But that literally almost never

happens.

That's a first for me.

Yeah, me too.

We had a lift fault in a very strange place, and we couldn't get it back the

rest of the show. So that's why the lift stayed down and didn't come back up.

We were able to get the final curtain, which was great.

And thanks for all of you for the gutter bow. That worked out great.

Except a reminder for...

the finale comments when we do white -black is when you should be leaving and

coming around to be able to do the closing curtain for Aurora and Philemon.

Good job.

Thank you. Yeah.

Very good.

Information. You talk to each other with more words. Of course, we do talk.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yep.

Small talks, you know. Yeah, you know.

Actually, me and my partner made some really good advancements yesterday.

So that was good. That was really nice.

Great training.

Every time gets better.

I love it.

And I love the challenges too, actually.

That's what makes me work harder and want to push it more.

Because if it was easy, that wouldn't be fun.

We don't know a lot of the details.

We just know that it happened.

And we know that that's not something that would have gone over very well

earlier today.

Why we waited until this moment to bring you all up to speed.

We take these losses very seriously.

Process it over the weekend in as best as you can.

get rid of it by next week because we do take this stuff to the stage but it's

also part of our responsibility because there are people in the audience who are

doing the same thing and we have to save them from that so let's save them from

that first and we'll deal with our stuff when we're done and we go home okay

Yesterday, I just found out one of my best friends passed away, and it was

completely unexpected, so I'm kind of still in the shock mode where I'm like,

no, that doesn't make any sense at all.

He has a wife and a kid, and now they're by themselves.

I had talked to him yesterday, and I said I had my... friend passed away but

i think he got in his head about it rather than being there for me and he he

went the opposite way kind of like a questioning kind of thing and i was like

wait a minute it's like hold on come on you're supposed to be there for me my

friend just passed away and i think he got in his head about because it was a

male but i'm like wait a minute no no no It's a family, like the whole family.

We're all good.

Las Vegas is back to 100%. Famous shows are making their return on the strip.

The relaunch of Cirque du Soleil in Vegas.

The group's iconic aquatic show is gearing up for a comeback.

And as you can imagine, people are excited to get back to something that

more like normal.

I didn't take any notes.

I have some comments, but I didn't take any notes.

You have the responsibility to touch people.

To maybe out of 1 ,800 people, if you can touch

200 people, enough for them to be better human beings and to contribute to have

a better world, we have succeeded at doing something.

Thank you. Have a good night and see you tomorrow.

You

know,

it kind of helps with the nurse a little bit because even people that didn't

come back to the show or calling and wishing us luck.

So it's nice to hear from everyone.

The reaction.

has been incredible.

It's been amazing feeling that love from everybody.

And it really reminds me of why I do what I do and why I love what I do.

You're cute, babe.

Romance.

I'm okay right now. I'm not too nervous right now, but...

When it starts getting close to the shows, I'll be nervous.

Say, good luck, Mama.

Good luck on your first show.

Nothing a bit.

You know, there was this one skill that we did, and it was new, and it was

scary, and I've never done it.

And all I thought about was my brother. I'm like, okay, cool.

Yeah, happy place, happy moment.

Think about my brother.

Like, how cool would it be for him to be there and be like, all right, you got

this.

I wish, like, my whole family was there.

Everyone, all, like, my OG friends.

It would be good for them to come.

My new OG friends, my family.

That would be cool if they were there.

Dre. It's hard to find someone to share something with and finally I feel like I

have and it makes me very sad that I can't share that.

I miss him.

But, yeah, I'm very sad.

This is still empty.

That's all.

I kind of just have to push it aside for now and focus on this

amazing thing.

Still ready.

Ready.

Everyone's been through a lot. They deserve to be happy. They deserve to

They deserve to cry or they deserve to feel these emotions and we need to

deliver that for them.

Whenever

something

global happens that's devastating and sad, people are searching for

a way to escape and i think the theater is really important for that

is

everybody ready for tonight yeah i can't hear you

Hello, everyone.

Fluid effect?

Set. Thank you. Do we have Aurora?

Yes, we do. Thank you.

Sound. Ready.

Electric. Yeah.

Automation. Set.

Aquatics. Set.

Carpentry. Yeah. And rigging.

Bitter batter. Let's get at her.

And Jen, I can confirm, Hawaii is in the house.

Great. Thank you.

All right, guys, let's stand by at this place. Stand by at this place.

And sound please start the dripping.

Thank you.

Are there people out there?

There's a few.

I'm very nervous.

You're nervous?

I'm on the console.

That's why he's nervous.

I haven't gotten a places call yet.

Jason's just trying to make you more nervous.

And Aquatic Police and the Divers to places.

Divers on the way. Thank you. And Aquatic Police and the Divers to places.

Divers on the way. Thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's party time.

Divers, this is your places call.

Divers to places.

Stage right, copy.

Come on.

Stage right. Good show, Regina.

Stage left, good show.

Thank you. Have a good show.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Divers to places.

Welcome back.

to serve the Soleil.

Intermission is over.

A lot of energy out here. It's going to be good.

I'm not crying. You're crying.

philomar philomar clearance

horizontal

curtain go

wind speed 28.

Go. All rings clear.

Trophy button clear.

We have Emma Solo -Trapeze.

you

I tried to land you better on that, but it was like... Don't care.

Boom. I was on the trapeze, so I don't care.

You were high, and I thought you were low, but you were just high.

I saw the trapeze, and I saw the ropes, and then I was like, bang!

I felt it in my puff. I was like, fucking airtime!

Ready to raise the boat.

Cradle is clear.

What is that?

Thank you both.

What's up, guys?

Woo!

Fuck yeah!

I was not doing so late. Just behind you, my friend.

We'll work that out slowly.

Not even the last time. Yeah, exactly.

You're my first. You're my first.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, it's good.

Woo! How are you? Good.

One, two, three, gut swings.

The lifts

are going to level. The lifts are going to level.

The end.

You're done.

Let's come in.

You got it. You got it.

And faith.

And that was so inspiring for us.

You know?

We were alone in the air of it.

And we were just thinking about the first night of our

show in Vegas.

And now we're leaving the dream.

And I want Thank you.

Because we're back.

During the pandemic, I went up to California to coach. And when I was

there, my coach, she started to get into her mind that maybe it's time for her

to move on.

So she asked me if I would come and be the head coach of the Santa Clara

Aquamates in San Jose, California.

And I thought about it, I thought about it, I thought about it.

And if it didn't happen now, I would probably lose that opportunity.

And it is one of my dreams.

I wish it would have been five to ten years later, because I still love the

and I still want to be here.

Today is my last...

Sorry. Every time I try to talk, this is going to be a terrible show. I don't

know why I have friends come to this one. They should have come last week,

today it's going to be...

My last.

My last say of O.

I'm choosing to leave because I have another opportunity.

But, you know, I feel healthy. I could go on forever.

O is part of my heart, part of my soul.

So to say I have to leave.

Like I feel like a piece of me is dying.

It's a place to share.

like a moment in time with the audience, with the people around us, that it's

never going to be the same. Tomorrow there will be something different, but

something so special.

It's the ending of that feeling for me today, but I'll always have the

you know, and the best memories of my life.

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