A fantastic review of Cirque du Soleil’s IRIS, playing at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, by Santa Monica Mirror’s Editor-in-Chief was published yesterday…
Written and directed by French director-choreographer Philippe Decouflé, the show begins by rewinding back to the concept of shadow puppets on prehistoric cave walls.
In an atmosphere of light and shade, two acrobats set the bar for the show as they soar through the air suspended from straps. They take off high above the stage and land with grace and fluidity, delivering a performance that makes one think of an aerial hand-to-hand number.
Back on the stage, four contortionists adopt striking poses that are mind-bending. The flexibility of their movements is amazing as they are transformed into living sculptures.
What makes each Cirque show like nothing else on earth is its impressive attention to detail in choreography, which is full of high-speed precision.
In the act “Filmstrip,” performers advance from one “frame” of film to the next, quickly moving through doors into side-by-side rooms that creates the illusion of continuous movement.
At the Hollywood Bowl’s 90th season opener earlier this year in June, the Kiriki act was performed as a teaser of what “IRIS” would deliver during its 10-year run at the Kodak Theatre.
This act features colorful performers that could be mistaken for bright Teletubbies that blur the lines between reality and the impossible as they take turns lying on their backs and spinning fellow acrobats above them using their hands and their feet.
Just when you think they have done it all, the eight performers stack themselves several bodies high, before the acrobat at the top launches into a spin and makes a perfect landing.
Read the rest of the review here.
{ SOURCE: Santa Monica Mirror }
