With its Kurios show, Cirque du Soleil has transformed the idea of the circus
1 year ago
The famous Montreal circus team founded nearly forty years ago by fire-eater Guy Laliberté and a group of street artists is on stage in Rome. No more beasts and tamers, but the charm is there
The circus is back and there is nothing nostalgic, romantic or gypsy about it anymore. Goodbye heraldic past, taming elephant tigers and big clowns, goodbye marquees saturated with the wild smell of beasts. Here we are in late Victorian science fiction, immersed in anachronistic technology, among small gliders, old trains and puffs of steam. We are traveling in the depths of the sea, inside the belly of a Nautilus and in the company of a bizarre collector of objects found in parallel dimensions: in his room of wonders they become anthropomorphic creatures and give life to a dance of extravagance. After all, science has long been in competition with witchcraft and, on the eve of the industrial revolution, when the roar of mechanical looms drove the fairies from the countryside, simple hearts looked at scientists as illusionists or as magicians.
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