Director Michel Laprise Set designer Stéphane Roy | Show type Touring show Director of creation Chantal Tremblay | |
Date of premiere April 24, 2014 (Montreal) Nominations Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award For Costume Design | ||
Cirque du soleil kurios
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.
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- Characters
- Acts
- Acts in rotation
- Music
- Track titles
- Vocalists
- Critical reception
- Tour
- References
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Characters
Acts
Kurios features numerous innovative acts ranging from Aerial Bike to upside down Handbalancing on Chairs.
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
- 11h11 (Opening)
- Steampunk Telegram (Aerial Bike)
- Bella Donna Twist (Chaos Synchro 1900)
- Gravity Levitas (Russian Cradle)
- Monde inversé (Upside Down World)
- Hypnotique (Contortion)
- Departure (Hand Puppetry/Transition into Rola Bola)
- Fearsome Flight (Rola Bola)
- Clouds (Acro Net)
- Créature de siam (Aerial Straps Duo)
- Wat U No Wen (Banquine)
- 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." 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!”"
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."
Tour
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 February 2017, 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