4 Years ago, 3 new talents stepped into the world of “O”…
This is their story
Training an Artist
Jenna Randall, Michelle Theriault & Mariko Sakai As “O” synchronized swimmers.
I’m Jenna Randall, I am from Great Britain.
I am 25; I’ve been doing synchro for about 18 years.
Eight of those years with the senior National team.
I’m Mariko Sakai, I am from Japan, Tokyo.
I was on the national team in the London Olympics in 2012.
My name is Michelle, I am 24.
I am from L.A., California.
I was on the U.S National team and I swam in college and for club teams.
We’re here for the show “O”
and we are synchronized swimmers learning our spots.
Before we came here we didn’t know each other at all.
We’d seen each other at competitions sometimes
and we saw each other at the audition.
It’s been nice to talk about our synchro backgrounds
and how they are different but very similar in each country,
having that in common is nice. It was easy to get along.
Training for “O”, we get the bus really early in the morning
and we train at eight-o’clock until twelve thirty…
some is land and most of it is water,
just going through all the routines and having them…
and then in the afternoons we have make up classes
to learn our make up for the show
also like costume fittings, hat fittings as well.
Training here has been quite mentally tough,
like 16 swimmers in the show
and at the moment the coach wants us to learn every ones spot
so we know the show from back to front in every position…
and then towards the end of our stay here we’ll just practice
our spot that we’ll be swimming in the show next year.
Right now we’re just at a public pool so we get to visualize like an audience
so we’ll watch the whole routine
and then there will be a close up on one girl that we’ll learn
and you have that with every girl.
And we have papers that have,
it’s kind of like American football,
there was like X’s of the formation where you are…
A few routines that we have to do on big long wig
and when that gets really wet, it gets really heavy
and its quite hard to move with it on your head
and so that’s quite difficult because in synchro, competitive synchro
we don’t have a wig it was just a costume.
It’s really cool; it looks really nice in the water.
My biggest stress is the makeup like not even the synchro part.
I knew we had to learn about makeup
but I didn’t know it was going to be that hard…it’s so hard to do.
It just…it takes forever, like we spent two hours
and we didn’t even finish the whole thing.
It’s fun…
She thinks it’s fun.
…because I change…
Changing your look…
I feel like we are really getting ready and it's,
it’s getting easier every day
but the whole aspect of the audience and just being on set
in the water with like a lot of outside distractions, it may be different
but when we get there we are going to have another month to train.
Cirque is like a whole different world
and I mean I love meeting all the other artists
and seeing what they do, what training background they had
and just learning about other people.
It’s really exciting.
Exciting.
Exciting and my dream has come true.
O CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL
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