Kurios (Cirque du Soleil)
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| 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 | Raphaël 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 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Jackson: One (2013) |
| Succeeded by | Joyà (2014) |
| Official website | |
Kurios 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, 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.
Kurios features numerous innovative acts ranging from Aerial Bike to upside down Handbalancing on Chairs.
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.
The Toronto Star praised the show and critic Richard Ouzounian said "Kurios is Cirque du Soleil's strongest act in years."The Gazette also declared Kurios a success, saying "Kurios is a classic. It runs like clockwork and could tick on forever."The Globe and Mail described the show as a "Kinetic, whimsical and astounding new production from Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil."
Upon the show's debut in San Francisco the San Francisco Chronicle called Kurios "the best Cirque du Soleil show in a long time." 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."
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!”"
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