The call of the savage seduces the senses in “echo”.
The last surreal fantasy of the French Canadian circus phenomena, Cirque du Soleil, delight the eye, as expected, but also agitates the soul with a dream contest that evokes the splendors of the natural world.
A 23 feet bucket has landed under the iconic blue and white top. “Echo” focuses on a colossal high -tech box around which an acrobats vault, twisting and flies. At first, the monolithic structure, breathing with gauze projections, suggests a slowly defrosted iceberg, revealing remains of the primordial world, beautiful wild creatures that jump and lock. Later, the box looks like a cage, a digital trap that confines the animal inhabitants of the planet. Within this abstract frame, the famous gymnastic ingenuity of the company rises.
Created by multiple directors, “Echo” is minimalist and intricate, a contrast study. One of the most deeply conceptual pieces from “Quidam”, “echo” fuses an existential wool sensation with the usual athletics of amazing. That acute artistic edge is what raises the “echo” of mere entertainment. While the piece is not exactly perfect and the narrative can certainly be difficult to achieve, “echo” makes you think, as well as feel, ask and smile.
Of course, you can always develop the issues and simply go with emotions.
The term pilot acquires a new meaning when two artists twist their bodies above the stage, connected only by their hairstyles.
The muscles extend when two scratch along the lazy cable inside the cube. A acrobat crew turns from one side from Vio-Saw to Savia. A juggler challenges expectations.
Best of all, if you ask my son, the clowns in this show were Vaudevillian’s masters of the Vaudevillian arts. The laughs and the guffaws that caused were the price of the 14 -year -old cohort. The stacked cardboard box routine was absolutely hysterical.
For me, however, a puppet stole the show. A gigantic red man with a bowling player hat, this futuristic puppet gives tones of “King Kong” and Burning Man as a girl in her giant in her giant, her realistic eyes flash, as if she couldn’t believe her eyes. Neior Podemos.
Contact Karen d’Ouza in karenpdsouza@yahoo.com.
‘ECHO’
Presented by Cirque du Soleil
When and where: until May 11 in Santa Clara County Fairground; In Oracle Park, San Francisco, from November 20 to December. 21
Execution time: Two hours 5 minutes, an intermediate
Tickets: $ 76- $ 359; www.cirquedusoleil.com
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