She's the personification of an animator's failure - a drawing smushed up and discarded, left to mock the artist from the wastebasket. We do get a villain in Drawn to Life - a person-sized wad of paper. It's all here, performed brilliantly in Disney Springs' comfortable dedicated theater for the show. Here.ĭrawn to Life does not allow its need for story to squeeze out Cirque fans' need for amazing stunt work. How about some 'owls' walking, jumping, and daresay flying through the Wheel of Death? Yup. This is stunning performance art, well worth the saving an evening on your Walt Disney World vacation to watch.īeen wondering where a jump-roping unicyclist is in your life? She's here. It might occur to viewers of a certain disposition that they basically are watching a topless pole dancer at Walt Disney World at this point.

Here are clips from those performances we shared earlier. But any doubt that Drawn to Life is at its heart a Cirque production gets erased when a male aerialist grabs a long pencil-like pole to take flight. Animation's use of a sequence of individual drawings to simulate motion on screen provides a convenient excuse for Cirque to stage a group of rhythmic gymnasts performing in sequence to illustrate that process.

It's more ballet than circus in the first moments, but soon Cirque asserts its form. So Cirque obliges, introducing us to Julie and her late father. For that to feel honest, it must include a story.

It's Cirque's collaboration with Disney - a tribute to the art of Disney animation. Acrobats, aerials, tumblers, and other stunt artists command your attention then reward it with performances that have made Cirque synonymous with people whose bodies know no limits from tension nor gravity.īut Drawn to Life is not just another Cirque production. Cirque provides an amazing visual experience, capturing your imagination with its unbelievable physical displays. Typically, people don't come to Cirque du Soleil productions for the storytelling.

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