I've been to at least half a dozen Cirque du Soleil shows, but this was the first time I took my two six-year-old granddaughters. Frankly, I wasn't sure whether they would sit through the whole show or like what they were seeing, Cirque du Soleil prevailed and both girls were transfixed by the unfolding visual treasure, and both told me, without any encouragement, that they loved it.

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I've been to at least half a dozen Cirque du Soleil shows, but this was the first time I took my two six-year-old granddaughters. Frankly, I wasn't sure whether they would sit through the whole show or like what they were seeing, especially since Sophia had never watched whole movies. While my concern was justified, Cirque du Soleil prevailed and both girls were transfixed by the unfolding visual treasure, and both told me, without any encouragement, that they loved it.

And it's no wonder. Part of the show was magical, like using falling water to create images. This is a brilliant concept that I've never seen before and it was truly magical to watch.

Actually, the magic started earlier, before the actual show began. Luzia is subtitled "A Waking Dream of Mexico." Before the show begins there is an extraordinary mariachi band with a very talented singer, and we were greeted with the music and brilliantly costumed dancers, a costumed performer on stilts and another performer doing butterfly magic. The girls danced with the dancers who then gave them flowers. It was a fun photo opportunity with the granddaughters dancing with the costume performers, and their dads both grabbed photos as well as me.

Luzia is an eye-popping collection of performances and performers doing amazing acrobatics on the ground and in the air. Early in the show, following up on the butterfly magician before the performance, a woman appears on stage with massive, twenty-foot-long silk wings, sprinting on a treadmill to represent the annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico.

That's followed by a dazzling array of seemingly impossible acrobatic performances and massive, much larger-than-life horse and jaguar puppets.

As in just about every Cirque du Soleil show that I've seen, the high-flying acrobatics that defy gravity were spellbinding, bringing my granddaughters to the edge of their seats. I'd been looking forward to the time when my grandkids were old enough to bring to Cirque du Soleil and it was such a pleasure to see the thrills and the joy on their faces as they experienced the different special moments that Cirque offers. One thing I'm sure of is that they have become fans of Cirque du Soleil. If you are thinking about taking your grandchildren, go for it. It was a great experience for the girls and it was an amazing experience for me to see the joy and wonder they enjoyed.

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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

He is the co-founder of the Arc of Justice Alliance a platform designed to help organizations and individuals working for justice and a better world to discover each other and share resources and strategies, with the hopes that this will build their power.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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