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Amaluna from Cirque du Soleil

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June 30, 2014, 1:09 PM

Prospera Prospera is a shaman with magical powers, but she is very much driven by human emotions. She knows she must let her daughter Miranda find love and make her own way in the world, but she will always be a protective force in her daughter's life.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Cerceau and Waterbowl Cerceau and Waterbowl - The Moon Goddess appears to Miranda riding a Cerceau, bestowing her blessing with a haunting song.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Waterbowl Miranda plays in the waterbowl, discovering her own physicality as she performs a challenging hand-balancing routine before diving and snaking through the water

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Peacock Dance Romeo wanders into the Enchanted Forest where he witnesses the bewitching dance of the Peacock Goddess in her dazzling white dress - a performance that represents the purity of love.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Jeeves and Deeda Romeo's manservant Jeeves arrives with the young men and promptly falls head-over-heels in love with Deeda, Miranda's childhood nurse. The feeling is mutual, and pretty soon they are starting a family.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Juggling Cali captures Romeo and imprisons him in the waterbowl. To celebrate his victory over his rival, he performs a juggling act with balls that drop in ever greater numbers from the sky above.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Teeterboard The men launch themselves high into the air, twisting and turning in a playful high-speed attempt to escape - at first from gravity then from their prison.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Uneven Bars The captured young men help the Amazons - the fierce feminine force of the island - to present a fast-paced theatrical version of the classic gymnastic routine.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Chinese Pole Romeo tries to reunite with Miranda by climbing up a pole in an exhibition of sheer muscular strength and inventive, supple routine.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Aerial Straps The Valkyries fly out over the audience on straps as they do battle with Cali, suspended from the Carousel, a rotating set element high above them.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
1,000 Arms and Sticks Inspired by an Indonesian ritual dance, a company of dancers dressed in black and silver performs a choreography that creates an indelible image of one woman with a thousand arms.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Icarian Games and Watermeteors A classic circus arts number involving strength, precision timing and sheer acrobatic skill, as performers spin glowing watermeteors, take off from platforms of upturned feet, tumble above the ring then land - all in unison.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
Guitarist Amaluna is the first Cirque du Soleil show with an all-female group of musicians. Guitars are very present and the overall sound is resolutely contemporary.

Photo: Yannick Déry Costumes: Mérédith Caron © 2012 Cirque du Soleil
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