Nutmeg50@hotmail.com

Cirque du Soleil made another stop at Redmond’s Marymoor Park and we braved a heavy rainstorm to watch Kooza. Although this was the sixth Cirque show for us we were still amazed and delighted. The show featured the standard kinds of acts: tightrope, contortionists, tumbling, balancing on chairs, and the like. However, the difficulty of the tricks and perfect execution make the traditional acts thrilling, even frightening in a few cases. I admire professional athletes but these artists perform at another level of skill. It’s all the more remarkable to think that they do these things eight to nine times a week.