Cirque du Soleil: IRIS (2013)

  • PG
  • 01/19/2013 (US)
  • Music, Fantasy
  • 1h 30m

A Journey through the World of Cinema

Overview

This production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to colour, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.

Philippe Decouflé

Director, Writer

David Rudd

Director

Cast

John Gilkey's headshot

John Gilkey

Clown
Ekaterina Pirogovskaya's headshot

Ekaterina Pirogovskaya

Praxinoscope / Violet
Olga Pikhienko's headshot

Olga Pikhienko

Scarlett (Hand Balancing)
Raphael Cruz's headshot

Raphael Cruz

Buster

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