Dance in Film · 2012
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
Erica Linz and Igor Zaripov thread a near-wordless love story through seven Las Vegas Cirque worlds, culminating in an airborne straps duet where flight, counterweight, and spinning become romantic partnering.
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away is a 2012 dance feature film centred on Aerial Dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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The dance sequences in Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
2 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! carnival passage
Danced by Erica Linz; Cirque du Soleil ensemble
Mia threading between looming Beatles LOVE figures while the entire carnival seems to close around her.
The passage turns dozens of moving hazards and grotesque carnival figures into a tightly routed screen ensemble. Linz’s precisely marked path through the chaos lets character commitment, spatial timing, and camera-scale performance carry the choreography.
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Mia and the Aerialist’s final aerial-straps love duet
Aerial StrapsDanced by Erica Linz; Igor Zaripov
The couple circling high above the floor as one body repeatedly becomes the other’s anchor.
The pair use counterweight, releases, neck and foot suspensions, and continuous spinning to make trust physically legible. Because both partners alternately support and endanger one another, the straps function as choreography rather than apparatus display.
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