Photos: Photos of Cirque du Soleil’s show ‘Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities’
Wonders are unleashed in the steampunk world of “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities,” the current Cirque du Soleil show visiting Los Angeles. A resident of that world awaits the magic.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Critic’s Choice: This Cirque du Soleil show is so ‘Kurios’
Anne Weissbecker performs acrobatics while hanging from a bicycle.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Karl L’Ecuyer portrays Mr. Microcosmos and Antanina Satsura plays Mini Lili.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Contortionists perform as eels from the Seeker’s cabinet.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Contortionists display their suppleness in Cirque du Soleil’s “Kurios.”
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Clown David-Alexandre Despres pretends to be a cat advancing on a member of the audience asked onto the stage.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Tomonari Ishiguro spins yo-yos as “the master of time.”
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Mr. Microcosmos, played by Karl L’Ecuyer.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)A group act filled with music, juggling and more opens Cirque du Soleil’s “Kurios.”
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Mr. Microcosmos, played by Karl L’Ecuyer, left; Klara the Telegraph of the Invisible, played by Ekaterina Pirogovskaya; and Nico the Accordion Man, played by Nico Baixas.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Contortionists perform atop a giant mechanical hand.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)A performer soars above a net used as a giant trampoline.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Acrobats perform as weightless sea creatures. They’re suspended by a net that acts as a trampoline.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)Roman and Vitali Tomanov perform on the aerial straps.
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)“Silicon Valley” actor Thomas Middleditch and his wife, Mollie Gates, interact with a turbaned “Kurios” character on opening night of “Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities.”
(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)