Cirque Performer Has Family Legacy in Circus

One of the most impressive acts in Cirque Du Soleil’s Corteo happens near the beginning when women perform perilous feats on a massive chandelier.  Christina Campolongo is one of those performers.  In a recent interview with the Calgary Herald, Campolongo explained that circus performing seemed like a logical choice for her.  While most children’s parents have a somewhat normal job, her dad was a tiger tamer who worked with the European circus.  She started touring with the circus as well when she was only seven and soon started training horses.

Since Cirque Du Soleil is an animal-less act, it wasn’t Campolongo’s animal skills that got her in.  While still with the circus, she learned trapeze, she told the Herald, “I had a friend who coached me on a single trapeze and for me, originally, that was as a backup act, but I ended up being really good at it without really knowing that I had these skills. I guess I got lucky — my mom was a dancer, so she kind of ingrained in me some grace somehow.”

Her abilities have led to a full time career for Campolongo and she wouldn’t have it any other way.  She loves the Corteo show and the fans can’t get enough of her act.  See her and other performers by getting Cirque Du Soleil tickets from StubHub.com.

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