If you appreciate that - and our approach to covering theme park, travel, and entertainment news - please sign up for our free, three-times-a-week email newsletter. We wanted you to read this article before we make our newsletter pitch, unlike so many other websites. Tickets are available via the Cirque du Soleil website. But if that's the price to get Drawn to Life on stage at Disney Springs, so be it.ĭrawn to Life plays Tuesday through Saturday evenings in the Cirque theater in Disney Springs. If some fans - or Disney higher-ups - need the affirmation of Disney characters projected upon the edges of the stage to accept this production at Disney World, well, they shouldn't. Drawn to Life employs such decorations from time to time, but I found myself ignoring them as superfluous window dressing. No, the moment did not need snippets of Disney couples projected onto the periphery of the scene. It's pure Disney magic, married with Cirque spectacle. This is the most emotional moment in the show, when Julie overcomes her frustration by embracing her love for animation, as she remembers her parents' love for one another. So I gave up and simply enjoyed the scene.Īnd the story. The lighting and some smoke effects on stage hide well the cables, which I could not see despite my best efforts to break the illusion.
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Staged to an arranged version of "Beauty and the Beast," the pas de deux slyly incorporates aerialist work by the mother, creating a series of wonderful illusions as she seems to float, dance, and run through the air above and around Julie's father. As we enter the show's final act, Julie imagines her father and mother dancing together. My favorite moment in Drawn to Life found the balance between Disney story and Cirque performance. She literally embraces her failure by the end of Drawn to Life, accepting that an errant drawing is not an indictment of her ability, but a testament that she can - and will - do better. Throughout the show, as Julie takes another step toward following her father's path, the wad of paper emerges to block her and test her confidence.
She's the personification of an animator's failure - a drawing smushed up and discarded, left to mock the artist from the wastebasket. We do get a villain in Drawn to Life - a person-sized wad of paper. It's all here, performed brilliantly in Disney Springs' comfortable dedicated theater for the show. Here.ĭrawn to Life does not allow its need for story to squeeze out Cirque fans' need for amazing stunt work. How about some "owls" walking, jumping, and daresay flying through the Wheel of Death? Yup. This is stunning performance art, well worth the saving an evening on your Walt Disney World vacation to watch.īeen wondering where a jump-roping unicyclist is in your life? She's here. It might occur to viewers of a certain disposition that they basically are watching a topless pole dancer at Walt Disney World at this point. Here are clips from those performances we shared earlier. But any doubt that Drawn to Life is at its heart a Cirque production gets erased when a male aerialist grabs a long pencil-like pole to take flight. Animation's use of a sequence of individual drawings to simulate motion on screen provides a convenient excuse for Cirque to stage a group of rhythmic gymnasts performing in sequence to illustrate that process. It's more ballet than circus in the first moments, but soon Cirque asserts its form. So Cirque obliges, introducing us to Julie and her late father. For that to feel honest, it must include a story. It's Cirque's collaboration with Disney - a tribute to the art of Disney animation. Acrobats, aerials, tumblers, and other stunt artists command your attention then reward it with performances that have made Cirque synonymous with people whose bodies know no limits from tension nor gravity.īut Drawn to Life is not just another Cirque production. Cirque provides an amazing visual experience, capturing your imagination with its unbelievable physical displays. Typically, people don't come to Cirque du Soleil productions for the storytelling.
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