Cirque Du Soleil Totem

Last Sunday we spent a rather lovely day up in London with Tim’s family as an after- Christmas treat seeing a show. Before meeting up with the others Tim treated me to a coffee and cake at Laduree and I really have to share it here! It was an amazing concoction of rose, raspberry and lychee.

In the afternoon we went to see ‘Totem’ by Cirque du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall It was fantastic. Really made you want t run away and join the circus. The space at the Albert Hall really lends itself to seeing the high flying aerial displays as they occur pretty much at eye height of you are sitting in the circle as we were. I would wholeheartedly recommend this offering from Cirque du Soleil. I have seen another version performed a few years ago at the O2 which was really rather surreal and I think I preferred Totem. It deals with the themes of evolution of man, nature, and the sea and it is set to tribal and African drum type music and a little bit of Latin style stuff too. The Froggy type acrobats are just amazing and the stars of the show for me were a trapeze couple dressed all in green that come on after the interval and perform a trapeze act with no safety cords using each other’s bodies for support that is just so moving and romantic you swear they must be in love for real.

Hope you have a great weekend! xHx