Cirque du Soleil: IRIS

This production from Cirque du Soleil is a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to colour, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.

Director: Philippe Decouflé, David Rudd

Cast: John Gilkey, Ekaterina Pirogovskaya, Olga Pikhienko, Raphael Cruz

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.