OH! Magazine - Australian Version December 2013 (Australian Version) | Page 6

( OH WOW! )

5 MINUTES WITH LUCIA CARBINES

he house lights dim low and the
chatter of the audience moves
from excited laughter through a low hum,
to complete silence. We stare at the gold
curtain that envelopes the stage. It gently
flutters in an unidentified breeze, the
stage lights bouncing off it and capturing
and holding our attention. I find myself
holding my breath.
In a swirl of music and lights, the
kabuki curtain drops revealing a
shimmering, transparent sphere hovering
above the stage. There’s a beautiful
flaxen-haired woman encased in its
confines. Dressed in a glimmering

T

Alisha Smith spends
time with the lady
from the bubble,
Lucia Carbines, the
contorted star
of the stageshow
Empire by
Spiegelworld.

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unitard, a big smile and little else, she
gracefully twists inside the bubble,
effortlessly easing her lithe limbs into
positions that cause me to clutch at my
hamstrings in sympathy.
With
seemingly
superhuman
strength, she presses the two halves of
the bubble apart and lowers herself into
its grip, hanging from a single leg as
she contorts her spine in ways unknown
to mere mortals.
Is this beauty an apparition? A
goddess? No, but close. She is Lucia
Carbines, a.k.a ‘Miss A in a Bubble’, a
19-year old contortionist touring Australia