'Disabled' guy. Um.

[denny]

One of the things anyone who sees Cirque du Soleil's latest show is likely to mention to their friends later is the guy on crutches, who does an impressive solo routine at one point despite his left leg being almost entirely non-functional. When we were leaving I bought the DVD of this show, and was quite disappointed to find that the same guy isn't on it. They have an able-bodied guy on crutches doing the same part for the rest of the show, but this part of the performance is completely different. Thankfully, YouTube has the goods :)


Update: article with info about the original 'crutch solo' in the show, and how it changed once this guy (his name is Dergin) came along: http://derginflies.org/solo.html


PS: I realised after fanboying in the comments on that YouTube post that it's posted by Dergin. That would explain why he has non-DVD footage of a Cirque du Soleil show, I guess. D'oh.

Oh well, I've done more embarrassing things on the 'net ;)

Comments

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

Awesome...but no glow sticks n the crutches ? :)

[blaadyblah.livejournal.com]

He's a bit good isn't he? There's an interview with him on the Ouch pages here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/closeup/13questions/dergin_tokmak.shtml), I was reading it yesterday oddly enough. :)

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

so. gonna run away and join the circus?

(someone had to ask...)