It’s how visceral your reactions can be, that’s the appeal of circus. A lurching stomach when an aerialist plummets towards the floor, or an involuntary gasp when an acrobat nails a tricky catch. So, when someone jumps the full height of the Royal Albert Hall on a giant trampoline, and your heart leaps to join them, that’s pure joy; vicariously free and flying, all from the safety of your seat.
Cirque du Soleil has been performing for almost 40 years and knows how to push our buttons. The company excels in large-scale spectacle, gathering some of the best acts from around the globe. In Kurios, the theme stringing those acts together is a steampunk world of retro-futuristic inventions: it’s hot air balloons and madcap Heath Robinson machines, rivets, bolts and leather flying goggles, and eccentrically shaped characters like something from Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet.
