Cirque du Soleil – "Toruk: The First Flight" puts you in Avatar

If watching the movie Avatar , by James Cameron, you ever wanted to visit Pandora, this may be your only chance. Toruk: The First Flight , one of Cirque du Soleil's most spectacular montages, is available in streaming.

This is the least circus of the shows of the Canadian company, since although artistic disciplines are displayed, the objective is to tell a story. Specifically, a prequel to Avatar (three Oscars) that takes place on Pandora, thousands of years before humans reached its forests. A natural disaster threatens the Tree of Souls and three young Na'vi embark on an adventure to save it.

Toruk: the first flight is a show for which 16 giant puppets of birds and animals are used like those that appear in the life-size film. Viperwolves, Austrapedes, a Turtapede, two swarms of Woodsprites and a twelve-meter wingspan Toruk move or fly over the stage thanks to Cirque Du Soleil technology. That he built these devices to the image and resemblance of the film in his own engineering workshops and exprofeso for this show.

New circus disciplines have also been created for this show. Like indoor kites, some flying devices moved by the artists only with the speed of their movements and by those that fly up to 19 of them at the same time.

The "monkey bars" have also been specifically designed. A kind of large tube structures through which acrobats are capable of climbing and doing pirouettes and figures similar to those of the high bar in artistic gymnastics.

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