Cirque Eloize
On Sunday, Shareena and I travelled up to Davis to see Rebecca, Jansen and Olivia for a performance by Cirque Eloize at the Robert Mondavi Center. It must be explicated publicly that while the Robert Mondavi Center looks hideous from the outside (as you drive by on the I-80), the interior and acoustics of the place is quite top notch.
Anyways, the evening started off with dinner at Kathmandu Kitchen for some good Indian food. Certainly, it is nothing in comparison to Shareena’s mom’s cooking and the Tandoori chicken was pretty much what Shareena does with her grilled yogurt chicken, but overall the food was above average and it is always nice to have some garlic naan (which Shareena’s mom does not make).
The show that we saw from Cirque Eloize on Sunday was Rain. It was quite a good combination of quirky humor, amazing acrobatics and great demonstrations of strength and flexibility with a fantastic dream-like atmostphere. It was certainly different from our last encounter with Cirque Eloize two years ago when Nomade made its way to Berkeley. Nomade was certainly the more exciting show, but each has its charms. For anyone who wants to see the various Cirgue du Soleil performances, I would definitely recommend them see Cirque Eloize as well and for a much more reasonable price.
Still, I think I will have to see “O” at Las Vegas when I have the chance.
