Everybody feels a little bit special for a bit, that they’re part of the show. “I’d love it if you feel the sweat of a performer or they’re standing next to you or winking at you. “The interaction between performer and audience is more important in my show than what acts they’re actually doing,” Maidment says. Their flirting skills are as magnificent as their knife-throwing, body-bending, music-making or ability to sail down a five-metre pole like they are skidding along a footpath. The audiences like it too because here are humans with amazing talents but they have two arms and two legs just like you and I do.” That’s one of the things the performers like when they work with me. “They’re a heightened version of themselves. “They’re not playing a character,” Maidment says. The nine-strong cast, which also features Canadian hand to hand experts Nicolas Jelmoni and Charlotte O’Sullivan, aerialist Marco Motta from Brazil, Australian musician Mick Stuart and New York City musical director and composer Sxip Shirey, are like gods strutting on a narrow catwalk between each act. Sweat flings through the air when Australian tap-dancer Hilton Denis pirouettes bare-chested on the show’s nearly two metre-high stage.Įverything in Limbo, which is set in a netherworld between earth, heaven and hell, is high above spectators or brushing down into their faces. The goosebumps on Holliday’s legs are clear when she drags a flaming torch along her thigh. Limbo’s proximity to the audience is snug. Audiences fall in love with the performers. ![]() That’s the tightrope I like to balance on. “When we first did the show five years ago someone told me their 12-year-old daughter thought it was like Alice In Wonderland while the people on the other side thought it was the sexiest date night they had ever seen. “People fall in love with the boys and with the girls in Limbo. ![]() “Someone once said to me, ‘I think you’ve created the first bisexual show’,” he says. Burly blokes and cocktail-wielding women are mouth agape as Antonio Vargas Montiel, a muscular Spanish acrobat in tight black jeans, balances his entire body atop one tall, thin pole.Įveryone watching Limbo, a dark, thumping and exotic circus-cabaret coming to Spiegeltent Wollongong in April, is smitten by its cast – a reaction its director, Scott Maidment, wanted from the show’s beginning. Amid the mirrors, stained glass and velvet curtains of the 1920s Spiegeltent a band of acrobatic, fire-eating, sword-swallowing, tap-dancing performers are trifling with audience’s hearts.Ĭoney Island fire-eater Heather Holliday winks coyly between mouthfuls of flame.
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