Yesterday’s show put on by the city’s circus community and some amazing art directors, was probably the best I’ve ever seen in my life – the way they transformed the city’s most well-know square (Place du Capitol) into a stage, where the actors were on the outside, and audience on the inside, parades with people walking on stilts, juggling all sorts of things, kids riding on unicycles, a crowd of performers marching with balloons the size of a WV beetle (or even bigger), and some other things that are just simply too incredible to explain in words. In one of the towers erected on the periphery of the square, an amazing DJ filled the city with booming music to which the thousands of spectators pretty much had the coolest dance party. Not to mention the fireworks, naked people covered in paint (females as well as males), huge, three story high wheels of rainbow colors, dude on top a pole, mastering 6 hoola-hoops at once.
This event made me think ever more: I will miss this city and all the fresh ideas they come up with, all the young, open minds, creativity, visual awesomeness, and the fact that one absolutely does not need a car to survive.