A waking dream of Mexico Luzia takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like in a waking dream, where light (“luz” in Spanish) quenches the spirit and rain (“lluvia”) soothes the soul. Through a series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, Luzia invites audiences to escape on a surrealistic journey through a sumptuous and vibrant world suspended somewhere between dreams and reality. Smoothly passing from an old movie set to the ocean to a smoky dance hall or an arid desert, Luzia cleverly brings to the stage multiple places, faces and sounds of Mexico taken from both tradition and modernity. Rich in awe-inspiring moments, Luzia enchants by incorporating rain into acrobatic and artistic scenes – a first for a Cirque du Soleil touring production.  

Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth. The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels. Juxtaposing the large with the small, the ridiculous with the tragic and the magic of perfection with the charm of imperfection, the show highlights the strength and fragility of the clown, as well as his wisdom and kindness, to illustrate the portion of humanity that is within each of us. The music, by turns lyrical and playful, carries Corteo through a timeless celebration in which illusion teases reality. .

TITIZÉ – A VENETIAN DREAM – City of Venice’s official show “Our clownery has always been intimately linked to tradition and has echoes of the language of the Commedia dell’Arte. We produce shows in which we immerse multidisciplinary performers in rarefied universes where wonder is sometimes naive, sometimes ingenious, sometimes surreal. Reflections in the water, the hazy blur when the clouds descend lower and lower, and the mythical game of masquerade that reminds us of cloaking in order to reveal oneself and then reveal oneself again: the three magical movements that magicians and shamans know and have passed down. There will be the night and its madness, the antics of jesters, objects that levitate, acrobats that fly, surreal rain and a continuous recreation of impossible balance. There will be traditional characters that in a kaleidoscopic game will multiply, split, dismantle and reconstruct. There will be Venice with all its splendour, its atmosphere, its poetry and the mysteries that inhabit it.”