Chinese State Circus – 2007

We went to the Chinese State Circus.

We got to the Chinese state circus ten minutes earlier then actually showing, So we sat and waited. I went with my Mum, Dad, Brother and Big Brother we got the middle-ish of the front row When the show started the lights went out, And to my surprise the
Monkey King came out cavorting around with a dance cartwheeling and backfliping, he had a wooden staff with decoration the monkey king was my favourite , As he performed a commentator guided us around the Chinese tradition. A group of performers did the famous hoop diving with a giant high sized set of hoops, They were cast for the performers to dive through the large circles they did many different styles like back flipping and launching each other through. The Chinese lion dance is a reenactment of the Chinese monks lion taming they dance around acting like lions In costumes glittered with exotic bright colours and loud bells they have flailing bit’s of material when they jump. My favourite bits are when they blink their large wide eyes and snap up and down their jaws they were impressive and athletic extremely when they balanced on a red colourful massive ball and rolled up and down a sea saw (My personal favourite). There was two men in them and they were big There were even small one man lions (aka Cubs), they rolled jumped roared and danced around and were very amusing. The happy cooks was one of my favourite they did acting while spinning plates on tables. One even bit a wooden spoon then put a another piece of cutlery like a ladle then spun a plate on top it was very impressive, they through a plastic helicopter blade and then through the audience it shot back into his hand and he smiled he pushed on a table and it collapsed then shot back up and he caught the folded table. Then there was the girl with 100 faces with a swipe of her caped arms her mask disappears and expression changed with a colour per swipe it had sad, happy, angry, neutral, and surprised which was amazing.
Their was pot jugglers which catapulted terracotta jars from each others head’s and to their hands and feet to their necks the pot jugglers were one of my favourite they balanced back flipped and dived to catch the pot (But because We was in the front row I was a bit wary for them to drop a pot and a serious injury is inflicted). The Last show was the Chinese dragon dance and performers ran around twirling two dragons on the stage the lights went off and an illumines dragon glided through the dark controlled by people holding sticks in black controlling the Dragon

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