eelee loves festivals and events: The Glittering Bestiary

The clock is ticking, it’s already 1pm, where is The Glittering Bestiary? Could the performance I heard so much buzz about be cancelled due to the wet weather? Of course not!

Just when I was heading for the train station in disappointment, I see a group of really tall people all dressed in white crossing the road from Wheelock Place. Everybody on Orchard Road turned to look. Some took a quick glance but many were simply enchanted. The music coming from a small trishaw-like white vehicle with eyes got all of us hyped up just in time for the performance.

The Glittering Bestiary is actually a group of circus acrobats from La Compagnie Malabar, France. They have performed in more than 35 countries and 1153 towns since 1981and Singapore is very honoured to be one of them.
As they got closer, we realised that the reason for their tall statures was because most of them were walking on sticks. Watching them prance around effortlessly in their glittery white dream-like costumes was indeed enchanting. Their faces were painted in white and black paint, so much that you can barely imagine how they would look like without all the makeup. All their costumes were very detailed, even right down to the silver eyelashes of the music vehicle. One of my favourite costumes was the one covered in spikes just like a porcupine.

My favourite part of the entire performance was the interaction they shared with the audiences. Not only did they took pictures with the audiences, they also fooled around with them. For example, chasing after the audiences with their long white drapes and covering them. Some people were frantically looking for a way out beneath those white drapes while some just waited patiently to be let out. It was really fascinating to watch the expressions of the audiences and how much they enjoyed the performance. They even shook “hands” with the audiences see the pictures below and you’ll get what I mean.