When it comes to capturing the spirit of Christmas in NYC, there are few grander ways to celebrate than by seeing Cirque du Soleil’s holiday show “’Twas the Night Before…” at Madison Square Garden.

The seasonal spectacle, based on Clement-Clarke Moore’s classic poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” features 26 artists, plucked from a global ensemble of 1,200 world-class acrobats, who go through grueling training to perfect the high-flying, dizzying and just plain dangerous stunts in the shows.

So when I was asked to “try out” for the MSG troupe, my first thought was that I hadn’t done gymnastics since the fifth grade.

Yet as I watched clip after clip of cast members catapulting and somersaulting through the air with an ease I’d typically reserve for flipping through Netflix, my seco

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