acrobats!

Yesterday, I went to see the National Acrobats of China at Massey Hall in downtown. This would be very photo heavy...except we weren't allowed to take any. Below are my attempts are describing it by word:

-plate spinning: oh so awesome. There was 7 plates being spun on a thin metal rod in EACH hand. I find it mind boggling how they manage the 14 plates and dance/spin around at the same time. Highlight of this segment is on top of the 14, she also spun a extra large plate on top of a 2m long bamboo rod ON TOP of a chopstick balanced in her mouth...

-hoop diving: bunch of guys somersaulting, back flipping, cart wheeling through a hoop about 2m in mid air.

-body contortion: this girl bending her body in impossible ways. I swear humans are not suppose to sit on their heads...literally.

-grand acrobatics: highlight includes making a 4 story high human pyramid and leaping over all sorts of objects. Somehow they got all 20 people on top of each other...

-top spinning?: dunno what it's called, but it looks like a top, but in hourglass shape. They sorta juggle the top from person to person, doing some really neat tricks haha.

-Icarian: somersaults, back flips, tumbling all the jazz...on each other's FEET. This act won gold in some festival in France.

-straw hat juggling: juggling all sorts of straw hats, from flat ones to tall triangular ones, from one person to another, or just all over the place. Just imagine DDR on extreme, except replace the arrows with hats.

-bicycle: SIXTEEN female acrobats balancing and doing tricks on ONE bike. Makes me feel sad that I can't ride one...

So that's 2 hours of being extremely amazed.