Is Cirque du Soleil's Luzia Cursed?

by Christopher FrizzelleThe heart-stopping final act in the second half of the show. COURTESY OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
On opening night of Cirque du Soleil's Luzia, under a 62-foot-tall big top and in front of 2,600 audience members, a performer in the final act fell. "The spell ended abruptly in the double-swing finale when a flying acrobat landed smack on her back and lay motionless, eventually carried off stage," according to Rosemary Ponnekanti of the Tacoma News Tribune.
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