According to an article on La Presse this morning, it looks as if Cirque du Soleil is gearing up to construct its Hangzhou Resident Show.
Translated from La Presse:
The first permanent Cirque du Soleil in China is scheduled for early 2018. Creative Guide Jean-François Bouchard showed the media animated 3D plans for this new theater, to be built in the city of Hangzhou in the coming year. These plans were approved in the last few months by its Chinese partner, Fosun Capital Group.
The building in question is an old warehouse that is part of an old rail yard recently transformed into apartments, and work to transform the area into a new Cirque du Soleil theater is to begin in the coming weeks.
According to the plans of the new theater, the audience will first be asked to enter a room where they will view video projections.
“It will be a kind of appetizer or introduction to the performance,” says Jean-François Bouchard. The island where the spectator seats are located will move. At one point the audience will face each other. “One way to illustrate the yin and yang,” says Jean-François Bouchard, who is working on the basis of this show with creative director Toruk, Neilson Vignola.
“There are still many things to be clarified, but what I can tell you is that the public is always moving, and that’s completely new to Cirque. Even the sets will position themselves automatically to the different performance spaces. ”
In the coming weeks Bouchard will introduce the creative team. Discussions are underway with a director whose identity will be revealed later.
{ SOURCE: La Presse | http://goo.gl/qZLwY7 }
