with its high flying acrobats and circus contortionists, cirque du soleil leaves audiences around the world in awe. but the pandemic very nearly bankrupted the group. well, the performers are back with a new show at the royal albert hall and bhavani vadde s been taking a look. their future was up in the air, but now a comeback, and final rehearsals for the premier of luzia, a show promising a visual extravaganza set in an imaginary mexico. a glimpse behind the scenes shows us what it takes to be part of this troupe, something helena always dreamt of. i started when i was five years old. really, i think all of that adds up to now as well, and to maintain the show and run the show at least a few hours a day coming up to the premiere and getting everybody back together and retrained, we are working all day, yeah, six days a week. the latest show takes water and light as inspiration, with trapeze artists twirling
of terrorism to ensure that people of not good character are able to be expelled at ministerial discretion. i think many people, you know, would question whether this fits into that part, but that is what the minister and his colleagues have been looking at for the past four days, in order to determine whether novak djokovic fits into this very specific area of the law. tracey holmes. with its high flying acrobats and circus contortionsists, cirque de soleil leaves audiences around the world in awe. well, the performers are back with a new show. their future was up in the air, but now a comeback, and final rehearsals for the premier of luzia, a show promising a visual extravaganza set in an imaginary mexico. a glimpse behind the scenes shows us what it takes to be part of this troupe, something helena always dreamt of. i started when i was
worth it. it was just too scary. trump was an t j emergency. we had to suspend the constitution to make this into an unfree country. we had no to choice. but now that he s in office, some of these people are apparently having second thoughts now. but why now? what s that is going on hereev and why is everyone suddenlyer saying the same thing at once? we could answer the second part of that question with absolute certainty. everyone, the democratic party sounds exactly alike because it message discipline isly what they do. it s who they are. no one in the party thinks independently that s not allowed. everybody in the group must say the very same thingg in concert with everybody else in the group all the time period. it s like a north korean singing troupe. deviations are punished thing for yourself even for a second and you are denounced as a conspiracy theorist who thinks orsatti wormer is medicine. you see it every day. we can give you a million examples of this . our producer tom
but the pandemic very nearly bankrupted the group. tonight the performers are back at the royal albert hall in london, with a new show, and bhavani vadde s been taking a look behind the scenes. their future was up in the air, but now a comeback, and final rehearsals for the premier of luzia, a show promising a visual extravaganza set in an imaginary mexico. a glimpse behind the scenes shows us what it takes to be part of this troupe, something helena always dreamt of. i started when i was five years old. really, i think all of that add up to now as well, and to maintain the show and run the show at least a few hours a day coming up to the premier and getting everybody back together and be trained, we are working all day, year, six days a week. the latest show takes water and light as inspiration. trapeze artists twirling through pouring showers. contortionists twisting themselves into unimaginable positions.
it was home to nelson mandela during apartheid in the years prior to his arrest. pantsula has its roots in the same era. it matched contemporary forms with traditional african dance an act of cultural defiance against the oppressive white government. talk to me about the kind of social and political messages that you express when you dance. the first political message is to be seen as black people. we are powerful, you know. and the second is we re trying to tell the world that we re still free, but we re still bearing a lot of problems. we still have to push ourselves. and we have to push ourselves, like, 10 times harder than any other individual. and now, the moment of truth. do i have what it takes to become an honorary member of the troupe? 0k, stand here. 0k. it s going to be,