Wunderkammer is good circus
Wunderkammer is good circus. The urban-cabaret with its deep vaudevillian roots is the creation of artistic director Yaron Lifschitz and members of the Australian company C!RCABy Kathryn Greenaway,
The Montreal Gazette--July 8, 2011
Good circus makes you squirm. It makes you gasp. And it removes you from all things real. Good circus weaves a spell.
Wunderkammer is good circus. The urban-cabaret with its deep vaudevillian roots is the creation of artistic director Yaron Lifschitz and members of the Australian company C!RCA.
Wunderkammer officially opened the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival at Tohu, Thursday. The international circus festival presents productions from around the world until July 24.
Opening night, six of the seven acrobats listed in the program (one of the men was missing) deconstructed familiar circus skills and then reconstructed them in odd and amazing configurations. It all began with a woman, three metal hula hoops and spare classical music. Body undulating, the hoops responded to her every twitch.
Wunderkammer was as much about style as it was about skill. Creating a mood of casual liberation was crucial. Lighting was used sparingly, but to great effect. Music shifted from urban pulse, to classical, to tango, each aural shift shaping the tone of the next vignette. One sequence melted into the next, acrobats appearing and disappearing, effortlessly inserting themselves in a routine already underway, then slipping back into the shadows. The costumes were a titillating wink to off-kilter German cabaret. Black and red dominated, with high heels, fancy bras and lacy underpants playing to that smoky-cabaret atmosphere.Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Wunderkammer+good+circus/5071244/story.html#ixzz1RhGkcy3D
Good circus makes you squirm. It makes you gasp. And it removes you from all things real. Good circus weaves a spell.
Wunderkammer is good circus. The urban-cabaret with its deep vaudevillian roots is the creation of artistic director Yaron Lifschitz and members of the Australian company C!RCA.
Wunderkammer officially opened the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival at Tohu, Thursday. The international circus festival presents productions from around the world until July 24.
Opening night, six of the seven acrobats listed in the program (one of the men was missing) deconstructed familiar circus skills and then reconstructed them in odd and amazing configurations. It all began with a woman, three metal hula hoops and spare classical music. Body undulating, the hoops responded to her every twitch.
Wunderkammer was as much about style as it was about skill. Creating a mood of casual liberation was crucial. Lighting was used sparingly, but to great effect. Music shifted from urban pulse, to classical, to tango, each aural shift shaping the tone of the next vignette. One sequence melted into the next, acrobats appearing and disappearing, effortlessly inserting themselves in a routine already underway, then slipping back into the shadows. The costumes were a titillating wink to off-kilter German cabaret. Black and red dominated, with high heels, fancy bras and lacy underpants playing to that smoky-cabaret atmosphere.Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Wunderkammer+good+circus/5071244/story.html#ixzz1RhGkcy3D
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