Moving with grace and delicacy, Isabelle Vaudelle becomes one with the columns of red fabric that supports and cradles her. To haunting music, contortionist and cloth intertwine, separate and embrace again. The translucent fabric occasionally hugs the body of the performer, creating a stunning effect that touches the artist in each of us. This act, which requires strength, flexibility and agility, won Isabelle the silver medal at the XXIIIe Festival du cirque de demain in Paris, where she represented Cirque du Soleil.

As our eyes gaze toward the top of the tent, a cocoon of red silk slinks from behind the orchestra, and an amazingly beautiful acrobat performs an Aerial Contortion ballet. Isabele Vaudelle climbs, not a rope, but a twisted strip of red fabric. Reaching a height of about 12 meters above the stage, she hooks a foot into it for support, and then unravels it, revealing that there are in fact two wide strips. She hides herself "inside," creating a scarlet silhouette of her body, and then executes a series of stunning maneuvers in which it is not always clear how, or why, the fabric is still supporting her weight. When "Let Me Fall" finishes, the act quickly accelerates as the performer lets loose, becomes violent, and eventually reaches her emotional climax. She finishes with a hangman's noose, hands and feet clear, supporting her entire body weight on her neck. Not only is it an athletically astonishing act, but in context it was so hauntingly beautiful performed to "Let Me Fall" from the soundtrack, but sung in Cirquish language.

[The act has been personified two different ways: first, as an internal struggle by the Mother, who watches the performance from below. When the performer gives up and descends to the ground, the Mother and two other women dressed similarly carry her away. The second, while still personifying the Mother's anguish, sees the Father watching from below, and then carrying her off once she’s spent. Isabelle Vaudelle, who originated the act in Quidam, ended her performance by giving the poignant illusion of hanging herself in the silk, which not all who have followed her do.]