Travel Macao Haiku - Cirque Du Soleil - Zaia! Poem by john tiong chunghoo

taking us to the
sky of entertainment
Cirque Du Soleil - Zaia!

Cirque Du Soleil - Zaia! performance at the Venetian Macao, Cotai Strip was one top international entertainment available in the Unesco Heritage City.

The first time I watched it was last August when the Venetian Macao celebrated its first anniversary. They were not really great at that time as they had just started then. However, after one year there, they had improved and the one and half hour show was really a treat for the eyes and ears with a wide range of laser light displays, body balancing dances and fabulous songs and music.

The backdropp of the whole show was an expansive space with hundreds of glittering stars. A giant ball that represents earth filtered images of the greenery, clouds, continents, fire, humans and ocean as it glided above the audience and the stage.

The performers, some 50 of them, mostly in gypsy styled colourful costumes, danced, sang as well as glided around the space, some on archaic bicycles with large wheels, some on ice blocks, as well as some in the form of a polar bear.

One impressive scene featured a voluptuous dancer swing her body round and round as her mouth held onto a holder from the mouth of a male dancer suspended on a rope.

The performance about the changing climate of earth had a love story woven into it and was driven by fluid and exotic live music. Not a moment of draggy feeling. It is a must see when you are in Macao.