The Life Of The Artists from the Cirque du Soleil Show KURIOS

hello hello we are elena roman tereshenko we are seven years away from going on stage in england hi I'm dallas stevens I'm backstage director at

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I've been performing for 15 years and I've been a stage manager for the last three months Mark I'm the tenured electrician in HVAC and I'm over six, eight years, we've been together, four years on tour,

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is wonderful, but you don't always have people to talk to that's personal, so having someone on tour with you that you can speaking personally and having a report that goes outside of the professional setting really helps someone to relate to on tour.

I travel with my husband and he works with me, so it's pretty convenient that we have two. one-year-old daughter and we always have another family member taking care of our children. Sunday is when all the children and all the families come, so it's actually a very happy day, they are playing and all the families sit together and they can share a good meal and it's a day when you know that all the families They will come so it's nice that you can plan to hang out and have your kids play with each other outside so surely our big family day will be on a Sunday today.

Every Sunday we have their children's circus all the children come here and do acrobatics so that I live on the tour it is an incredible experience I can see all the countries cities I can meet new people we have a band made up of three technicians and I myself are practicing in one Of the trucks you see around the place, it's the sound department truck where they keep all their equipment, so we thought it was a perfect place to set up some drones and speakers and go hang out afterwards. the night

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you must be kidding it's your moment good, big tents we are a whole town we travel with everything we build everything uh put up the tents and all that for curiosities we have a cast and crew of 109 around 60 employees 40

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who We are from 21 different countries around the world and a multitude of languages ​​are spoken.

Hello, I guess what makes this

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and circus so unique is that we really bring people together from all over the world for a common goal and it's just a beautiful thing the first time I see the chapito it's an emotion that's uh there's no nothing better you know because it's a little good that the family travels the community this is the country we live in you know you're backstage you feel home we take care of our people the employees the

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the equipment we have to move them we have to stay make sure that everyone have a house we're here usually for about a month or two I love exploring a new city on my bike that One of my favorite things to do in the world is just get on my bike and get lost.

It's easy to start feeling at home in a place and then you have to leave it and then you leave everyone you know. meeting you and that's a little disappointing, but it's part of it and you know it's going to start over in the next city too. This no longer becomes a job when you are on tour, it is a completely different way of living, you leave behind your friends, your family and you join this group of people, they become your friends we are a very good group it is really like a family you gotta be kidding all Cinderella's values ​​are rooted in the big top and the tough big show way of

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we ​​are travelers we are travelers in imaginary worlds the inspiration they told me there was something wrong with a flying trapeze net in zarkana and then they sent some engineers to look at it and that made them think well, what if we took this problem and amplified it?

What if we took that jumping net and made it more bouncy, made of a different material that could actually give more bounce, so after they did a ton of research and development, they gave us the acronym and then we had to create a act on him? like a giant trampoline for the viewer, but after we have a really slow bounce, really different, like I'm trying to jump on my own, I'll be the one meter one and that's it, I need like six. guys around me to push me 10 meters high it's like teamwork and not like a single job like on a trampoline you don't see the nets when you jump when you're super high I see the stage and that's it so I'm like looking I'm going to destroy the stage but the network is here I don't see it you have to feel adrenaline even after like I don't know a five minute show I have adrenaline but at the same time I want to do it and I like to do it even just to work on the network like six guys working together on the net, that's something you need to understand if you're putting a new guy on, I'm sure I'm working just working on the the net with us is going to drop all the time it's like you need to understand the nets it's hard for cardio like If you were out of breath when you finished the number but you were having fun our coach was an Olympic trampolinist and he stepped into the net and thought he was going 10 feet high, maybe he was a couple feet away and he was terrified, so even for a person like him it's a completely different experience.

The acronet is really complicated. Uses almost all of the automated equipment in our program. it's 15 axles so we have some towers, chain motors, winches and then we have a complete load cell system which is that screen in the back where we can monitor all the loads around the store and inside to make sure the net is exactly with the tension that the artists need to be able to do the show designed and invented by the

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in montreal, they took approximately two weeks, a team of five people to install the mesh on this mountainous road, this net was removed the last city I need parts, we will use them to build a newer network that will serve as a backup in the program.

We have a big development from the beginning if you're watching the premiere at Memorial last year and you're looking. in the number now, the capture seconds are completely different, yes, every time, like when you get comfortable doing stunts, at some point you say, okay, I'm going to try another turn, it's cool, I'm very proud of this number and I'm really happy to be able to share something so unique with the world, that's why I wanted to do this work in the first place. You know, I have done many circuses of different plans, but when they offered me this job and I said: well.

We don't really know what it is yet that's where I was sold because I wanted to do something. I explored new territory like this, so I'm ready to go. We are about 10 minutes from the start of the show. This is the automation control cabin. Me too. share it with the stage manager we have just started the wake up which is the beginning of the show this happens while the audience is still coming in set the mood and tone of the show five minutes to show please five minutes the general scenario. The manager is the person responsible for the show while the show is going on, so I talk to all the technicians and the band leader and I also give cues to the artists and tell them when to go manage all the traffic on the stage and orchestrate all the different elements to make sure that everything works together as it should be what you know and 1108 goes here we are in 54 this is the technical area all the technicians that they work with here everything related to the program that we work on comes here what you need The repair or modification department is separate and each has its own color of road boxes.

Yellow is accessories. Purple for automation. Gray is lighting. Red is carpentry. Blue for rigging. Black for sound. It really speeds up and organizes our things very well. The surveyor's job is safety. We're talking about acrobats in the air, we're talking about equipment in the air and as soon as the tent goes up that's when we go in too, we test our winches, we test the ropes, we test everything before the real performers arrive talking about every cable, even At the top of the big top, we don't fix things, we prevent things, it's yes or no in the rigging, you can't say oh, maybe it will hold or maybe you'll be okay to climb. air which is a no-no so circa is pretty special in the way they use automation unlike theaters and the things that we use in a unique way with acrobats and performers to be able to fly them, move them around the stage and we really help them take their acrobatic performance to the max right behind me, they're actually doing a rehearsal right now, I won't get in their way too much, but Jake is operating the console and he's also concentrating on the performer, exactly what they are doing, making sure that signals move in the right sequence at the right times so that performance can be exactly as planned.

Our job really becomes important when things don't go exactly as they should, we can try to make sure of that through our inspections. and maintenance, everything works as well as possible and as good as possible, but a technical problem or a problem with the artist may mean that we have to deviate from the path we have set in order to ensure that the show runs fully. without problems and most of the time the public does not even see that there is something that has changed artists wow, wow, wow, thank you very much, the style of music in Curios is somewhat eclectic, there are many different styles, there is a great presence of electro . swing you will hear a little bit of polka and walls, but then you will hear an incredibly, almost rock and roll style of music, with jazz influences.

The action on stage is never set to a specific moment, meaning that sometimes an act can miss a moment. trick uh do something wrong or redo something in this case we have to be ready and through our internal monitors listen to our leader bam who is going to tell us many switches but there is one to open the microphone so we can tell them okay, let's wait, something is happening, I just count three four and come on, every time there are stunts, there is an open section, sometimes the solo and when I see, okay, they did it, come on, we have figures that we hit the music with, there is a lot to The drummer must follow the action.

My role as a drummer is basically to not only support the kind of rhythmic foundation of the show, but also support a lot of the actions that happen in the show, so if there's a change or something, I make sure. I'm playing my beat I'll play and then I'll hit appropriately where it needs to be if it's on the landing if it's on a hit up anywhere basically I'm glued to the action on stage it takes some practice to be able to sing, concentrate on your singing, but at the same time you can hear what your band leader is saying and what is really happening behind you.

You have to be on call, very concentrated music, so it's very big and each musician put his own style, you know, and the composer, Raphael Bow, did a great job and Bob and Bill 2 gave us very nice that we can still enjoy. It was important for me to have characters that attracted attention in my Cordelia Clara Mikhail Cosmos it is important that people fall in love with those characters and immediately as something special I wanted to have Miko Cosmos in herself and I wanted her um almost her unconscious self, the fragility of the character came out of him and was embodied. by mini lily for me it was important that it wasn't just about her height, it had to be about this, this shine, she has the spirit that she has, she has that eternal Hollywood presence, the water, one of the challenges in creating that character It was a costume because I didn't want to overwhelm myself because the costume or costume took up more space than me.

Yes, my name is Nico. I'm from Barcelona. The Hank puppets come from my mother. She was born into a deaf family. Her father and my mother were deaf and She became a puppeteer and developed all these numbers that could be done with her hands and she showed them to me to gain knowledge of her family and continue, it is very important and it is one of the traditions of the circle. You actually know, okay? Well, so goodbye.