steven ross: "volta" is the newest big top production by cirque du soleil. reath of fresh air by cirque du soleil. for the first time, we have a show that incorporates street sports in a big top show, and theelectronic music.eat of announcer: with that electronic music comes energetic is living his high-erg right now, i make a dream come true, like, you know, this is, like, very--oh, i'm feeling very honor to be here. announcer: shape diving, as the name implies, is a step above the traditional hoop act. wentao: usually it's like the circle, like here, like more angles, but, here, it kind of like makes smaller and makes things harder. that's why it's kind of, like, the challenge for us. announcer: swiss rings performer and coach, yan li, tells us how training prepares performers for the big stage. yan li: brandon, just, kind of, like, correcting the technique better. that's good. you kicked, that's better, yeah. so, from here, just to learn the basic technique, and then transfer from this, take it to the stage. that's basically why we're training either here

. >> there's a girl from cirque du soleil. and she works with me. i have bruises everywhere.find to be even more difficult than the professional dancing? >> it's like acrobatic. different muscle groups that they do with their legs and go upside down. what? i can't, hold on, can we do that part again? it's hard. >> jimmy: i bet it is. >> but i'm doing a movie called "hustlers" where i play a stripper. it's about a bunch of girls who took guys for a bunch of money. it was a hustle. >> jimmy: wow. i think it sounds great. >> i play the master mind girl who gets the younger strippers. >> jimmy: boy, that a-rod, he has it all going for him. >> yeah, we will be hanging out in some clubs doing some research. >> jimmy: cirque du soleil coming by. "world of dance" returns february 26th on nbc. we'll be right back with jessica rothe. what if we spice excethings up a bit? alexa... "fire" by the ohio players ♪fire (uh) (uh) what if we turn it up a notch? ♪fire (it's all about) (uh, uh) what if we go off the map? ♪fire (woo, woo, woo) ♪fire the all-new rav4. toyota. let's go places. chili

>> inspired by a cirque du soleil performance and then a spry 78-year-old she decided to give it a golf. >> hi, betty. >> inspiring trapeze school founder. >> i would have quit a long time ago if it weren't for betty, but because betty was flying i wanted to make sure we had a place for her to fly. and fly she does. >> she's only 86. she's got a long ways to go. >> she spent her younger days soaring on skates, traveling the world performing for the famous holiday on ice, meeting world leaders, princesses and even kings. >> elvis came to see our show. he was just the nicest young man ever. >> she's lived her life with passion. >> these are my polo days. >> playing polo on a men's team, raising a family and traveling with her husband ski. after he passed away, she knew she wasn't ready to close the book on excitement. since then it's all been up in the air. >> my secret is very simple. i do what i love to do, and i do it totally. >> a lifetime spent taking that next big leap. she argues what better way to live. >> what a beautiful life. and it's not finished yet. >> steve patterson, nbc

and then "asian pacific america" got the first behind-the-scenes look at the cirque du soleil show, "lta," just before it opened in san jose. two of its top performers talked with us about the big night. all that on our show today.

notice how when you see cirque du soleil there's never babies in the show. what are they thinking? >> they're not thinking. that's the thing. you see the guy reportedly, the baby's dad, swings the child. and then holds it by the l right-side up. there are women there. one of them are the babies mother. they are all performing, playing music. clearly they never heard of shaken baby syndrome. >> this is difficult to watch. you know something bad could happen in any of these movements. correct. >> the swinging continues. >> what are these people doing standing around watching? does anybody say, hey, you could seriously injury the child? maybe we don't do this for a dollar? >> people didn't just sit around and stand there. some of them were recording this. people did end up calling the police. they did show up and arrested the mom and the dad. police responded to complaints about what they were doing. so we presume it was probably because of the ep dandangerment the child. >>> it's time to give away another ipad mini. >> to enter you need tuesday's buzzword, be 18 years old and a legal

. >> back stage up in the bay with the cast of cirque du soleil. >>> national floral design day and kimberly full bloom. >> sometimes you need to stop and smell the roses and that's what we're doing today here at mark's garden. >>> amber

cirque du soleil will be the opening act.mpared with last year? last year was politically charged. i could not say it was a pleasant atmosphere. they black — — say it was a pleasant atmosphere. they black —— the black carpet. reacting to the harvey weinstein scandal. #metoo. has things change? i think we are seeing the birth of a new era. sense of relief. two microphones fighting for the top slot, roma, a netflix firm, fighting for top spot, never happened before. the favourite. three people fighting for the power of the country. emma stone with that imperious, funny, touching site performance by 0livia colman. the walk of a homecoming queen up this red carpet, i think. 12 nominations. i don't think 12 wins. but i think it's could win seven or eight nominations. whether best film and outstanding british film, that is very rare. the kings speech did that last. loving a film about a monarch they can love, the public. i think roma can win best phone. the last foreign—language film to win the double was in 1989, i think. a rare o

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i dressed for cirque du soleil not for your show. >> laura: no problem, you're excused >>> okay. thank you. as soon as police let us know about it. i immediately called my sources at chicago pd. my colleagues and i in the media locally were skeptical from the very beginning and so were the police. that's our job to be skeptical. if your mother tells you will she loves you, check it out. when we started reporting this story in chicago we did not report that jussie smollett was attacked, we reported that jussie smollett says he was attacked. i've groen up in chicago, lived there most of my life. this was a pretty outlandish claim that he made given the geography, streeterville which is a very heavily populated area, a lot of people walking around. something as extreme as this, wearing red hats, carrying bleach, putting a noose around someone's neck, it seemed unlikely that no one would have accepted n. videotaped with a cell phone. >> laura: i have so many questions. did anyone from the national media call you and say look rafer you know the area, long time resident, chicago, what

i'm on a mini-vacation with my son here in las vegas so i dressed for cirque du soleil. i didn't dress for your show, laura. >> laura: no problem. you are excused. >> thank you. as soon as police let us know about it, i mutely called my source that chicago pd. my colleagues and i in the media locally, we were skeptical from the very beginning, and sore police but that's our job to be skeptical. with the old adage, if your mother tells you she loves you, check it out. when we started reporting this story in chicago, we did not report that jussie smollett was attacked. we reported that jussie smollett says he was attacked. growing up in chicago, i've lived there most of my life and you know, this was a pretty outlandish claim that he made given the geography and -- in streeter bill, it's having a heavily populated area, people walking around, something as extreme as this, wearing red hats, carrying bleach, putting a noose around someone'. it seemed unlikely that in that area no one would've -- >> laura: i have a question. i'm sorry to interrupt. hold on. i have so many que

so shaq's fun house is -- shaq, of course, everything fun inside the house you got carnival, cirque du soleilyou put that together and that's shaq's fun house. >> why is a nba legend involved at a nfl event >> this is not -- well, yes, it is a nfl event but a sports and main event and i have been a main event type of guy welcome to shaq's fun house. my business model has always been, change people's lives to make people happy. that's what it's about i have enough money. i made enough money doing what i'm known for and now making people smile and making the right business investments so this super bowl weekend you want people to have a great time. and me being a male sports figure bragging rights who had the greatest party ever at super bowl? shaq's fun house is cracking. >> shaq, if you want do go to the fun house, it is going to cost $400 and up thousands of dollars if you want vip access and making money from sponsors and challenged me to a ski ban e ball game. he was definitely dominating on the skee ball machine. one of the big events this week in atlanta ahead of the super bowl back to y

. >> every night, after work, boom, we're going to cirque du soleil, to comedy clubs, to dinners.t was a big -- it was a six-week party down there. >> but it was back home in the airpark, where the winklers' social life blossomed. >> gosh, we have all kinds of things, from oktoberfest in october where the neighbors get together. christmas parties, easter, valentine's day parties. >> ice cream social and paper airplanes. >> ice cream socials. these were the neighbors. rich and linda johnson. lina and marion cockrell. >> todd had one airplane in the hangar and one in the driveway. they loved having an ex-fighter pilot for a neighbor. >> todd was always -- i mean, he was just a genuinely interesting guy. he would -- >> yeah. >> make eye contact with you. he always wanted to know about my job. "what sorta cases are you working on? what kind of law do you practice?" >> i had actually kind of looked at todd as kind of a "guy's guy". >> reporter: you enjoyed their company. >> we did. >> enjoyed todd a little more than rachel, maybe. >> i knew her less well than i knew todd, i feel. i fee

. >> esto le va a gustar mucho porque su nuevo espectÁculo de cirque du soleil.o con dulzura y no amargados. se parecen a las coronas.una leyenda dice que mÁs fortuna vas a tener. >> un poquito de sal. >> esa era carne de res filete y hada. >> hoy hay que comer pato, o gallina. camarones hay que comer, cuando los cocinamos se ponen rojos. >> no saben lo rico que huele, huele delicioso. me lo han platicado mucho, quiero probar . >> esto es un plato muy fÁcil. >> gracias. >> no te lo gastes, es de la suerte. >> muchas gracias por acompaÑarnos en este dÍa tan importante. la academia de artes y ciencias tuvo invitados a su tradicional almuerzo. >> este lunes los nominados tuvieron un encuentro muy casual con varios fans que acudieron a uno de el. captamos al director mexicano dejÁndose apapachar por sus fanÁticos. adentro del salÓn yaritza estuvo platicando muy amenamente con lady gaga y bradley cooper. ya varias celebridades se han declarado fans. [habla en inglÉs] >> tambiÉn acudieron eugenio caballero, este Último nominado en la categorÍa de diseÑo de producciÓn.