KURIOS: Big Top Touring Show. Michel Laprise. Writer and Director. Michel Laprise worked in theater for nine years as an actor, director and artistic director before joining Cirque du Soleil in 2. Even before he was out of theatre school, Michel had started his own creation company, Th. He also went on international tours with the Th. At Cirque du Soleil, Michel spent five years as a talent scout before taking on, in 2.
Special Events Designer. In that capacity, he directed the act with Quebec diva Diane Dufresne during the Opening Ceremonies of the Montreal 2. Outgames; the large- scale performance event created for the launch of the Fiat Bravo in Italy (2. Cirque du Soleil performance event celebrating Quebec City’s 4. Microsoft’s Kinect console at the 2.
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Electronic Entertainment Expo, broadcast on MTV; the opening show at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Russia in 2. Opening Ceremonies of the 2. FIBA International Basketball Federation World Championships in Istanbul. In 2. 01. 2, Michel collaborated with pop star Madonna, providing artistic direction for her performance at the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show; he later went on to direct her MDNA tour.
In 2. 01. 3, he directed the musical Robin des Bois – Ne renoncez jamais, to be presented in France, Belgium and Switzerland. A graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, Michel Laprise studied at London’s Royal Academy and at the Scuola Internazionale dell’Attore Comico in Reggio Emilia (Italy) as an Acfas grant holder. KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities is Michel Laprise’s first engagement as Director of a Cirque du Soleil touring show. Chantal Tremblay.
Director of Creation. At the end of the 1. New York pursuing a career in dance, Chantal Tremblay decides to join Cirque du Soleil after having seen one the company’s shows. Chantal started out as a dancer on a Cirque project and then became choreographer Debra Brown’s assistant on the creation of Myst. Before KURIOS –Cabinet of Curiosities Chantal has worked on many Cirque projects including the shows Alegr. In 2. 00. 6, she becomes the Director of Creation for The Beatles LOVE, followed by OVO in 2.
Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour in 2. St. Since 1. 99. 0 he has designed sets for dance productions by such internationally- acclaimed dance troupes as La La La Human Steps and O Vertigo. While primarily active in theatre and dance, he has also worked in film, television, advertising and variety shows. He also designed The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terra Cotta Army exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2. His achievements have earned him many awards and honors, including being named Revelation of the Year, All Categories Combined, by the Association Qu. In 1. 99. 2, the same association honored him with the award for best set design.
His talent has also been recognized by the Conseil des Arts de la Communaut. For Cirque du Soleil, St. Since 1. 98. 5, he has had a long working relationship with the renowned French choreographer Philippe Decoufl. He also worked with Decoufl.
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Between 2. 00. 1 and 2. La Belle, staged by the Ballets de Monte Carlo. In cinema, Philippe designed the exuberant costumes for the 2.
Ast. In 2. 00. 7 he designed the costumes for choreographer Jean- Christophe Maillot’s production of Gounod’s Faust in Wiesbaden. He has been equally active in the world of live shows, designing the costumes for the musical Starmania in 1.
Canadian composer and director Lewis Furey, and videos for a number of artists such as Julien Clerc and Alain Souchon. With KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities, Philippe Guillotel collaborates with Cirque du Soleil for the third time after The Beatles LOVE and IRIS. Rapha. At the same time, he undertook musicology studies at Universit. From 2. 00. 0 to 2. Rapha. The tour also took him to the Zigets Festival in Budapest and the BAM Festival in Barcelona, among others.
In 2. 00. 8, he turned toward composing for orchestra and wrote the music for Georges Feydeau’s musical L’. In 2. 00. 9, he composed the original music for Jean- Pierre Jeunet’s latest motion picture Micmacs, a director with whom he collaborated again in 2. In 2. 01. 0, he composed the music for “Grants,” an Australian advertisement for Commonwealth bank made by Jeunet. A year later, he composed the soundtrack for Defective Detective, a short American animation film written by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – winners of the 3.
Student Academy awards – picking up an award at the Burbank International Film Festival. With KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities, Rapha. At Cirque, she performed in the shows Myst.
Andrea also held the position of Dance Master on Viva ELVIS in Las Vegas. Michael Jackson ONE is her first show as acrobatic choreographer for Cirque du Soleil. Jacques Boucher. Sound Designer. For over 2. 5 years, Jacques Boucher has been creating sound environments for a number of productions from Quebec and beyond. Jacques also worked as a sound technician for various Quebec artists, including Richard S.
He went on to develop an expertise in sound design for musicals such as Dracula (2. Quebec City in 2. In 2. 00. 8, Jacques was asked to handle the sound for almost every event presented as part of the celebrations for the 4.
Quebec City. As Sound Designer and Head of Sound, he designed sound for the Quebec Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Symphonie des mille by Gustav Mahler, The Image Mill by Robert Lepage, for which he designed the impressive sound system spanning 1. Cirque du Soleil. Jacques also works as Sound Designer and Head of Sound for some Cirque du Soleil special events. After TOTEM and Amaluna, he is taking part in his third Cirque du Soleil show with KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities. Jean- Michel Caron. Sound Designer. Jean- Michel Caron has spent the past 2.
KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities is his first engagement as Sound Designer of a Cirque du Soleil show. Jean- Michel has been creating soundscapes for the past five years, including for a number of Cirque du Soleil special events. He took part in several productions by new media and entertainment studio Moment Factory including Ode .
He also worked on various exhibition and theatre projects in Quebec. At Cirque du Soleil, Jean- Michel was involved in a number of creations as Project Manager and Head of Sound. He was also Assistant Sound Designer on the shows OVO and Zarkana, an experience he repeated on TOTEM and Amaluna alongside Jacques Boucher. Since 2. 01. 2, Jean- Michel Caron teaches sound at Coll. Martin contributed to the critical success of several Quebec shows. He has won many Quebec awards for his lighting design in addition to several nominations. Martin Labrecque created the lighting for two critically acclaimed circus shows produced by Cirque .
In 2. 00. 9, Martin designed the lighting for an eleven- hour show by Canadian author, director and actor Wajdi Mouawad, which was presented in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France. He also worked on the show Paradis Perdu, directed by Dominic Champagne and presented in Montreal and Belles Soeurs (2. Ren. He studied Business at Indiana University on a scholarship as a competitive springboard diver. He won two Big Ten and two NCAA national diving championships and qualified for the 1. Olympics trials. He did not make the team on either occasion, and at first turned away from the world of competitive sports. After a brief period working in aeronautics and insurance, Rob found the pull of acrobatics too strong to resist, so he went to work in diving shows in theme parks, which led him around the world.
On his return to the United States he put his talents as a diver and trampolinist to work in film and television as a professional stunt man, notably for Universal Studios. Rob joined Cirque du Soleil in 1. Myst. In 1. 99. 7 he joined 'O', first as a coach, then as artistic coordinator and eventually he was appointed the production’s artistic director. He also added the artistic direction of Myst. KURIOS – Cabinet of curiosities is Rob’s third show as Acrobatic Performance Designer after ZAIA, Amaluna and Michael Jackson ONE.
Bob & Bill. Composers and Musical Directors. Composers and arrangers Guy Dubuc and Marc Lessard (aka Bob & Bill) are well known for their ability to blur the lines between genres and styles. In 2. 00. 3, they composed the music for Splinter Cell (Pandora Tomorrow), a best- selling Ubisoft video game. They have also produced several albums, including Monica Freire’s Bahiatronica and Pink Floyd Redux, a collection of remixed songs from the British cult band, as well as the soundtrack album for the Cirque du Soleil show KOOZA. In 2. 00. 4, Bob & Bill supplied the musical direction and arrangements for the Cirque du Soleil show Midnight Sun, as part of the 2. Montreal International Jazz Festival and the 2.
Cirque du Soleil. Three- time nominees for a Quebec music industry ADISQ award, the two sidekicks also created the music for several films and television series, and composed the music for Director Robert Lepage’s production Pageant de Canotgraphie. In 2. 00. 8, the duo launched their first album, Crime Report, a work combining electronic and organic sounds. Bob & Bill worked many times with Cirque du Soleil to create the musical arrangements for several special events. Since 2. 00. 9, they also acts as composers for Cirque du Soleil.
They composed the music for TOTEM (2. Robert Lepage and Amaluna (2. Diane Paulus. Bob & Bill also wrote the music for the third and fifth chapters of Les Chemins Invisibles (2. Quebec City. KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities is their fifth show as composers for Cirque du Soleil. Yaman Okur. Choreographer. It was in his early teenage years that Yaman Okur discovered his love for dance. After only a year of refining his talent as a student of contemporary dance, ballet, and jazz at the Acad.
Only a few years later in 2. Yaman took home the remarkable title of BBoy World Champion at the International Battle of the Year in Germany.