Robert Lepage to Stage 2010 Cirque Tour

According to Cirque du Soleil's website, notable writer and director Robert Lepage will stage the company's next touring show which is named, for the moment, Cirque 2010.

The new show is set to begin performances in Montreal on April 22. The next stop on the tour will be Quebec on July 22.

They describe their news show as dealing with "human evolution, its myths and legends, and the search for balance."

Lepage is the founder of Ex Macina, a Production Company that has created critically acclaimed works like "The Seven Streams of the River Ota," "Elsinore," "Geometry of Miracles," and "The Far Side of the Moon."

In fall 2009, Robert Lepage directed "THE NIGHTINGALE AND OTHER SHORT FABLES," an operatic staging of short works by Stravinsky blending hand shadow puppetry, Kabuki theatre, Chinese opera and Vietnamese water puppetry. The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto premiered the work. Lepage is currently working on Cirque du Soleil's next touring show, as well as on a new production of DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN by Richard Wagner for the Metropolitan Opera of New York; both shows are set to be released in 2010.

In 2011, audiences will see him in Martin Villeneuve's "Mars et Avril," a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.

Additional tour information as well as the official name of the new show will be announces in April.
For more information, visit www.cirquedusoleil.com.

 

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