{"id":110047,"date":"2021-12-02T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110047"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:00:40","slug":"cirque-christmas-delivers-amazing-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110047","title":{"rendered":"CIRQUE CHRISTMAS DELIVERS AMAZING PERFORMANCE | Review &#038; Photographs by Diane Fleischman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.df-foto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Review &amp; Photographs by Diane Fleischman<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div>The 2021 Holiday season is underway, as excitement fills the air, the Wind Creek Event Center welcomed &#8216;A Magical Cirque Christmas&#8217; Wednesday night.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Plenty of families attended with children full of &#8220;ooohs&#8221; and &#8220;aaahs&#8221; as they watched acrobats and jugglers masterfully showcase their talents with precise execution to the music. And it was pretty hard not to feel that Christmas spirit as everyone clapped along to many of today&#8217;s contemporary Christmas tunes. \u00a0The show was full of comedy, incredible feats, and also told a story.<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-image-carousel  su-image-carousel-columns-4 su-image-carousel-has-spacing su-image-carousel-crop su-image-carousel-crop-1-1 su-image-carousel-has-lightbox su-image-carousel-has-outline su-image-carousel-adaptive su-image-carousel-slides-style-default su-image-carousel-controls-style-dark su-image-carousel-align-none\" style=\"max-width:500px\" data-flickity-options='{\"groupCells\":true,\"cellSelector\":\".su-image-carousel-item\",\"adaptiveHeight\":false,\"cellAlign\":\"left\",\"prevNextButtons\":true,\"pageDots\":true,\"autoPlay\":3000,\"imagesLoaded\":true,\"contain\":true,\"selectedAttraction\":0.007,\"friction\":0.25}' id=\"su_image_carousel_6a176a8523639\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a 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In a cloud of smoke, an upbeat, magical Christmas fairy appears, determined to uplift the Guardian&#8217;s holiday spirits. \u00a0As she tries to help, she accidently breaks the key off from the clock, and a time travel through Christmases begins.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>While this traveling Cirque troup is not affiliated with the Cirque du Soleil group, they share the goal of casting the best performers in the world. And this production did not disappoint one bit. The show was simply mesmerizing.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>To learn more about A Magical Cirque Christmas or to find their social media accounts visit\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalcirquechristmas.com\/cirque_christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.magicalcirquechristmas.com\/cirque_christmas<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>For more information about upcoming events at the Wind Creek Event Center visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windcreekeventcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.windcreekeventcenter.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review &amp; Photographs by Diane Fleischman The 2021 Holiday season is underway, as excitement fills the air, the Wind Creek Event Center welcomed &#8216;A Magical Cirque Christmas&#8217; Wednesday night. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=110047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIRQUE CHRISTMAS DELIVERS AMAZING PERFORMANCE | Review &#038; Photographs by Diane Fleischman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[2290,69,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diane-fleischman","category-in-the-valley","category-photography"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Cirque-Christmas-2021.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}