Kurios (Cirque du Soleil)

Kurios
Company Cirque du Soleil
Genre Contemporary circus
Show type Touring show
Date of premiere April 24, 2014 (Montreal)
Creative team
Director Michel Laprise
Director of creation Chantal Tremblay
Set designer Stéphane Roy
Composers Raphëal Beau, Bob & Bill (Guy Dubuc and Marc Lessard)
Costume designer Philippe Guillotel
Lighting designer Martin Labrecque
Choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Yaman Okur
Acrobatic choreographers Andrea Ziegler
Ben Potvin
Susan Gaudreau
Sound designer Jacques Boucher
Jean-Michel Caron
Makeup designer Eleni Uranis
Acrobatic performance designers Rob Bollinger
Germain Guillemot
Boris Verkhovsky
Rigging designer Danny Zen
Production manager Gabriel Pinkstone
Chief production officer and executive producer Charles Joron
Creative guide Jean-François Bouchard
Other information
Preceded by Michael Jackson: One (2013)
Succeeded by Joyà (2014)
Official website

Kurios[1] is a Cirque du Soleil touring production which premiered on April 24, 2014 in Montreal, Canada under the full title of Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities. Created and directed by Michel Laprise,[2] it looks at a late-19th century world inventor who invents a machine that defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him with steampunk elements featuring characters from another dimension that interact with him and a tribute to the power of the human imagination.[3]

Characters

Acts

Kurios features numerous innovative acts ranging from Aerial Bike to upside down Handbalancing on Chairs.

Inside the Grand Chapiteau of Kurios (Toronto 2014)
A Kurios and the Seeker in the show. Taken in Toronto in 2014.

Acts in rotation

Music

The score was created by Raphaël Beau in collaboration with Guy Dubuc and Marc Lessard (known as Bob and Bill), fusing jazz with electro swing.

The soundtrack was released on December 9, 2014. A CD launch called "Kurios about Music" happened at the December 10, 2014 show, which included an off-stage performance by the Kurios band, as well as an after-show party.

Track titles

  1. 11h11 (Opening)
  2. Steampunk Telegram (Aerial bike)
  3. Bella Donna Twist (Chaos Synchro 1900)
  4. Gravity Levitas (Russian cradle)
  5. Monde inversé (Upside Down World)
  6. Hypnotique (Contortion)
  7. Departure (Hand Puppetry/Transition into Rola Bola)
  8. Fearsome Flight (Rola bola)
  9. Clouds (Acro net)
  10. Créature de siam (Aerial straps duo)
  11. Wat U No Wen (Banquine)
  12. You Must be Joking (Finale)

Vocalists

Critical reception

The Toronto Star praised the show and critic Richard Ouzounian said "Kurios is Cirque du Soleil's strongest act in years."[4] The Gazette also declared Kurios a success, saying "Kurios is a classic. It runs like clockwork and could tick on forever."[5] The Globe and Mail described the show as a "Kinetic, whimsical and astounding new production from Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil."[6]

Upon the show's debut in San Francisco the San Francisco Chronicle called Kurios "the best Cirque du Soleil show in a long time."[7] The San Jose Mercury News wrote "For its 30th anniversary, Cirque du Soleil has concocted a dark and mysterious world that eschews the brightly colored eye candy for which the French Canadian juggernaut has become famous."[8]

Liz Jones wrote about Kurios for the Daily Mail and asked Russian mime artist Ekaterina Pirogovskaya, who performs in Kurios as Klara the Telegraph of the Invisible, if she gets nervous before the show. Pirogovskaya responded "If I feel nervous, then the audience will feel nervous. Perhaps, sometimes, when we have famous people in the audience, like Justin Timberlake. We help each other, learn from each other. Before joining Cirque, I didn’t speak English. We teach each other languages. Every new city is, “Hello, hello!”"[9]

Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune wrote "Well, the Cirque has come roaring back with a dazzling, hyper-detailed, potent, quixotic and generally fantastic show that reveals this extraordinary artistic company's singular capacity for exploration and metamorphosis. It is not to be missed on any account. Even the music, sung by the Greek vocalist Eirini Tornesaki, is beguiling."[10]

Tour

The Grand Chapiteau for Kurios. Taken in Toronto in 2014.

Kurios, like all of Cirque du Soleil's touring shows, premiered in Montréal in April 2014. It has been touring North America since.

As of October 2015, Kurios has toured to the following regions:

The following colorboxes indicate the region of each performance:
 EU   Europe  NA   North America  SA   South and Central America  AP   Asia/Pacific  OC   Oceania  AF   Africa

2014 schedule

  •  NA   Montréal, QC - From 24 Apr to 13 Jul 2014
  •  NA   Québec City, QC - From 24 Jul to 17 Aug 2014
  •  NA   Toronto, ON - From 28 Aug to 26 Oct 2014
  •  NA   San Francisco, CA - From 14 Nov 2014 to 18 Jan 2015

2015 schedule

  •  NA   Seattle, WA - From 29 Jan to 22 Mar 2015
  •  NA   Calgary, AB - From 9 Apr to 24 May 2015
  •  NA   Denver, CO - From 11 Jun to 26 Jul 2015
  •  NA   Chicago, IL - From 6 Aug to 30 Aug 2015
  •  NA   Costa Mesa, CA - From 15 Oct to 29 Nov 2015
  •  NA   Los Angeles, CA - From 10 Dec 2015 to 7 Feb 2016

2016 schedule

  •  NA   Atlanta, GA - From 3 Mar to 8 May 2016
  •  NA   Boston, MA - From 26 May to 10 Jul 2016
  •  NA   Washington, DC - From 21 Jul to 18 Sep 2016
  •  NA   New York, NY - From 30 Sep to 27 Nov 2016
  •  NA   Miami, FL - Coming Soon

References

External links

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