- We're stuck, oh my god, can someone get that?
(intense daunting music)
- Hello everyone, I am in Las Vegas right now.
When when you think about Las Vagas
you think about the live shows.
- We are at Treasure Island right now,
we're in the theater where Mystere,
the Cirque du Soleil, is put on.
- You can see the whole stage behind me
it is giant, it is incredible.
- I am very excited today, because I'm gonna training
like the Cirque du Soleil performers.
I've got Eric with me, we're going to compete
we're going to see who's better,
we're going to tough it out.
- Today, actor vs. athlete, we're gonna compete,
and see who can learn to be a Cirque du Soleil performer.
And also I think we're getting fitted,
we're gonna go and try on different costumes.
I'm basically gonna become a part of the show.
- We're both grossly competitive,
so if he tries to beat me I will try to sabotage him
as much as possible.
- Alright so we're going back stage now,
to the green room.
- Oo, this is awesome.
Hey guys I'm Spencer.
- I'm Gabriel.
- [Spencer] Nice to meet you, I'm Spencer.
- [Alana] Hi, Alana, nice to meet you.
So this costume Is called our sperato,
so it's an iconic character to mistere,
you'll see them all throughout our show.
Very mischievous sort of characters
are sort through line throughout out show.
Our show is sort of about the creation of life,
Um, the creation of the flower in the desert,
cause we were the original Cirque du Soleil show
here on the strip.
- [Eric] Really?
- Yeah. we're in our twenty sixth year now.
- [Spencer] Oh my god, Let's try this on I'm super excited!
( upbeat dramatic music)
- I have a really bad wedgie right now.
( upbeat dramatic music)
- Wow! There we go, that felt good.
- That wasn't as bad, yeah felt kinda good.
- Let's go train!
- let's do it.
(relaxing music)
- How bout the butt dude do you feel the butt thing working?
- Yeah, it -
- WOOAH!
- [Spencer] Oh my god.
- [Eric] So this is where they practice?
- [Alana] Yeah, this is where they practice.
This is one of our training rooms.
- Augh!
- Okay, now how do you get it back down?
- You have to push with your feet. - [Eric] Oh.
- Oh that's pretty good form.
( Upbeat music)
- Can you help me get up there?
- Yes. - Thanks.
- Ready?
- Ah, one more time.
It's weird cause now I can see two butts,
your real butt and then your fake butt.
( machine buzzing)
- You guys feel warm?
- [Both] I'm warmed up!
- Let's do it, let's go to the stage.
Let's uh, try some acrobatics.
- I'm ready.
- [Alana] Lets go!
( upbeat retro music)
- Jeez look at him.
- That is insane!
( upbeat retro music)
- He's like, a god.
- Uh, okay. You uh, ready to go on stage and try this out?
- Yeah. - Let's do it.
- That was so impressive. Okay.
- I don't think I can do this.
- [Spencer] Whoo, He's got a twenty pack!
- Okay, we're looking at the performer right now,
he is a Greek God, he is as ripped as could be.
I have never felt more inferior in my life.
Hey man, how you doing?
- Hello! I'm Spencer.
- Eric.
- [Spencer] Oh is this not this not the-
- We can't wear this?
- [Spencer] The flying costume?
- Alright we'll be right back!
- We'll be right back, thank you.
( Upbeat hip hop music)
- [Preformer] You guys look great!
- [Eric] Good?
- [Preformer] (mumbling)
- [Spencer] Warm up? Okay.
(Upbeat retro music)
- Good, okay we can start.
(Upbeat retro music)
(chattering)
- [Performer] Beautiful, yes, uh huh!
(Upbeat retro music)
- There we go!
- Oh my god! Oh!
- Whoa!!
- I'm pretty impressed, and I'm mad! I'm proud of him,
but the competitive part of me is a little mad.
- [Eric] That was so fast!
(mumbling)
- I know! I did like, a quadruple- million axle.
(intense retro music)
- There you go!
(chattering)
(intense retro music)
- I feel like I wasn't shaking as much as you.
- I saw you, you were flapping your wings.
- Yeah but you were swinging bro.
- Ah ha, You see?
(Intense retro music)
(chattering)
(intense retro music)
- [Eric] Is that how slow I was?
- Was that not good? I was like aw man I was doing so well!
- [Performer] No, it was good.
- [Spencer] Okay
- [Performer] He was better.
(clapping)
- We've talked about this, I'm a little stronger than Eric,
I thought that that would help me but uh
- I think because I break dance, I understand like, momentum
like how to create with my leg.
- So uh, we're gonna have you try something else.
- Okay. - A little bit different, to switch it up.
Thank you to Dima.
- Yeah, thank you so much man I appreciate it.
- [Eric] I'm gonna go throw up right now.
- Okay, so we're ready for the second thing
we got a whole new wardrobe change and everything.
We're wearing multiple layers underneath this.
We uh, got some faces on the back of us too.
(intense Music)
holy crap!
(intense music)
is that what we're doing next?
- That is so tall! What the hell?
- [ Spencer] You said you're scared of heights?
- [ Eric] Uh, yeah, a little bit.
- [ Spencer] Okay.
- And if there's anymore spinning,
I will definitely be in the bathroom.
- [ Performer] You guys look good.
- [Spencer] I'm very impressed with
what you're doing already.
- [Both] Oh my god!
- I think Spencer might have an upper hand right now
because I'm still feeling very nauseous.
Um, so I hope that goes away and I can just like
give it a hundred and fifty percent on these polls.
(Upbeat lively music)
- Get this knee higher, yeah and push you hips out.
- [Eric] What?
- [Performer] Push your hips out this way.
- [Spencer] I got you.
- Oh okay.
- Yeah you feel that?
- Yeah. That looked so much easier!
That's very hard! This video is just me and Spencer
proving that we are, that we suck and everything.
We're unskilled.
I used to watch these shows all the time
and be like 'I wish I could do that,
I think I can go up there and do that!'
but I can't do any of it!
- [Spencer] You mad at me?
- Yeah but did you lift your knee up?
- [Spencer] You mad bro?
(Upbeat lively music)
- [Performer] There you go.
- [Spencer] Ah! Ha ha!
(upbeat lively music)
- [Performer] Push off your bottom shoulder.
- [Eric] Whoa, that is absolutely impossible.
You want me to just use this ab right here on my side
To hold myself?
- [Performer] Actually when you kick you want to try to
twist you hips.
The first thing I'll do is turn my body that way,
and then scoop up.
(upbeat lively music)
- [Eric] He's like holding you bro.
He's, oh wait.
[Performer] He's a little bit better.
- Yeah he is a little better, yeah he is.
- [Performer] Maybe try the other side?
- Yeah let me try the other side.
- [ Performer] Yeah, stick out your left side hip.
Yeah this is your better side for sure.
- [Spencer] You got this!
(intense music)
- Okay, nice!
(clapping)
(energized scream)
- [Performer] Last routine.
- Oh this is the show, there's a live audience now?
This is the performance?
( audience applause)
- [Performer] Do you guys want music?
- No let's just go.
( upbeat mystical music)
- [ Performer] Hup! Hup! (clap)
( upbeat mystical music)
( audience applause)
- Wow, this was not your fault this was uh,
us utterly failing.
- You guys did great.
- [Both] Thank you.
- We have a little bit more work before
you're ready for our stage.
- Just a little.
- It was a good effort.
- I feel like the least athletic person in the world,
before I came in I thought I was gonna do pretty good,
Uh, I thought that like my years of training would uh
help me, but uh, that is so much harder than it looks.
- I feel like when you watch the show,
you're like wow that looks so hard, so impressive,
but like you really don't understand how difficult it is.
Like it looks amazing but the moment you
try the most simple move in the show,
and you can't even do that, uh,
it really like blows your mind.
When I watch Cirque Du Soliel shows
It's gonna be like completely different now.
Thank you Cirque Du Soliel this was an incredible experience
- Yeah thank you so much!
- But competition wise, we're both losers.
- We have a lot of work to do to get on their level.
Uh, years and years of practice.
- Alright so we're gonna go workout,
be training buddies.
- Yeah, we got a lot of work to do.
- We got to get better at this, next year we're back.
- Okay
- [Both] Let's go train.
( upbeat hip hop music)