Sunday, October 23, 2005

Robert Lepage & Cirque du Solei


Two years ago, after having seen a documentry about about Robert Lepage on BBC, I convinced Jesper Banzon that we should go to Berlin and see Dragon's Trilogy of Ex Machina, directed by Lepage. It was a five-hours performance and very different from the facinating impression I had gotten on Lepage's work through that documentry on BBC. I read in Dragon's Trilogy's program that Lepage is going to direct a performance with Cirque du soleil. I had seen Cirque du Solei's Quidam in Copenhagen in 2001 and couldn't wait to see what on earth the combination of Robert Lepage and Cirque du Solei may result in.

I had kind of forgotten about this till Lepage came to Copenhagen with his The Anderson Project, an amazing performnace based on biography and writings of Hans Christian Andersen. This time the performance was again very different from what I knew and expected from Lepage. It again made me thing what the hell he might be doing with Cirque du Solei, but again I kind of forgot to follow up.
Few days ago I got an e-mail from a friend of mine with the news that Mr. Robert Lepage is going to be at the Copenhagen International Theater's seminar on December 2005.


I was searching the Internet to see what's up with Lepage and I just remembered that this year was due to see his work with Cirque du Solei.
And I found . Here it is! There are some video clips of the show and they are CRAZY! I can't really wait to see this performance.
Furthermore they have made a DVD called KÀ Extreme: "The documentary explores the journey of a remarkable production by following the show’s evolution from early rehearsals through to its first public performance."
P.S. Here one can find some cool stuff about Lepage.

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