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