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Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna Serves up Shakespeare With a Twist
Cirque's newest show dazzles with a female-powered take on The Tempest.
By Laura Godfrey • Photos by Corbin Smith

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- In the opening scene of <em>Amaluna</em>, the Moon Goddess swings from a hoop descending slowly from the ceiling during the young Miranda's coming-of-age ceremony.
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- Miranda (Iuliia Mykhailova) begins her contortionist act by balancing above a large water bowl.
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- The tough-as-nails Amazon women on the island are tasked with protecting Miranda while performing acrobatic feats.
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- Miranda's fiendish pet Cali (Viktor Kee) is described by Cirque du Soleil as "half-lizard, half-human, all jealous." His impressive reptilian movements and somehow likeable nefariousness really stole the show.
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- Nobody's complaining about this merry bunch of shirtless, ripped sailors whose ship was lured onto the island by the powerful, cello-playing Prospera.
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- The Peacock Goddess performs a dance in this stunning, ultra-feminine white tulle and lace dress dotted with thousands of Swarovski crystals.
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- The Peacock Goddess performs a dance in this stunning, ultra-feminine white tulle and lace dress dotted with thousands of Swarovski crystals.
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- The clowns Jeeves and Deeda meet for the first time, and things quickly take a turn for the romantic.
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- For the first time in Cirque du Soleil's history, the show features an all-female band.
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- This motley crew of sailors, captured by the island's Amazon women, make their graceful, playful escape with the help of a well-placed teeter-totter.
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- The Balance Goddess's breathtaking display of equilibrium brought a long hush to the crowd.
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- The Balance Goddess's breathtaking display of equilibrium brought a long hush to the crowd.
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- This scene, inspired by an Indonesian ritual dance, gives the illusion of one woman with dozens of arms moving in unison.
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- After a whirlwind romance, clowns Jeeves and Deeda are about to be mommy and daddy to a collection of football-shaped babies.
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- The inevitable wedding scene: after overcoming some unlikely obstacles, Miranda and Romeo finally tie the knot.
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Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna
The Grand Chapiteau, Port Lands (Cherry and Commissioners streets)
Selected dates until November 4
$58.50–$158.50
Cirque du Soleil’s iconic yellow-and-blue big top popped up in the Port Lands last week for its annual circus extravaganza, and this year’s show, directed by Diane Paulus, is somewhat influenced by the Bard. The storyline that loosely runs through Amaluna takes elements from Shakespeare’s The Tempest: on an island, a young woman named Miranda (Iuliia Mykhailova) meets a young man who has been shipwrecked (Edouard Doye, whose character is peculiarly named Romeo instead of Ferdinand), and the two must overcome countless obstacles to be together. Like the original play, those include the intrusions of Miranda’s fiendish pet lizard-creature Cali, portrayed here with delightful, slithery creepiness by Viktor Kee, a master juggler to boot.
The whole production includes a twist, however: instead of the magician Prospero, it’s Miranda’s mother, Prospera (Julie Andrea McInnes), who conjures up the storm that brings a gaggle of shirtless, ripped sailors to their shores (thanks, mom!). On top of that, the supporting cast includes a number of goddesses, Amazons, and valkyries that make this the most female-centric Cirque show ever—apparently, the cast is about 70 per cent female, including all six members of its rock-inspired band, so prepare to get your She-Ra on.
But when it comes to any Cirque show, let’s face it—the storyline is only a vague notion meant to complement astounding feats of physical prowess and acrobatic skill. To this end, Amaluna will drop your jaw. During the opening scene—an elaborate coming-of-age ceremony for Miranda—the Moon Goddess appears wrapped around a hoop that slowly descends from the ceiling, while singing a haunting musical number. Soon after, when the young lovers finally find each other, Mykhailova’s Miranda displays her contortionist skills as she slips in and out of a glass water bowl, twisting herself into a pretzel while balancing herself on one hand at the edge.
One of the most memorable scenes was during the second act, and brought a hush to the entire audience: relying heavily on the use of her feet, the Balance Goddess delicately lifts a series of giant wooden rib-looking objects and balances them into a perfect mobile structure several metres long. Her performance is elevated by the fact that each slow breath is amplified throughout the room, accentuating the remarkable, meditative effort that goes into each movement. When it was all over, and she collapsed the structure by removing a tiny piece at one end, the audience let its collective breath go, and burst into appreciative, relieved applause.
Weaving in and out of the main plot is a side-story involving two clowns named Jeeves and Deeda, the servants of the young lovers, who meet and quickly begin a sweet, floundering romance of their own. Despite a cute scene in which Deeda gives birth to a collection of football-shaped, clown-nosed (and in some cases moustachioed) babies, there were times when these characters overstayed their welcome, and we wished the show would return to its central plot.
However, if aerial acrobatics, tightrope walking, and unicycles are your thing—and why wouldn’t they be?—Cirque du Soleil is the best ticket in town, hands down. Amaluna’s costumes alone, designed by Mérédith Caron, are unmatched anywhere else: during the dance of the Peacock Goddess, her ultra-feminine white tulle-and-lace dress sparkles exquisitely, covered in thousands of crystals. The Amazon women, meanwhile, are badass in red-and-black leotards and leather boots, and armed with bows and arrows. Whether or not you follow the show’s Shakespeare connection, Amaluna will leave you marvelling, much like The Tempest’s Miranda, “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in’t.”
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- In the opening scene of <em>Amaluna</em>, the Moon Goddess swings from a hoop descending slowly from the ceiling during the young Miranda's coming-of-age ceremony.
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- Miranda (Iuliia Mykhailova) begins her contortionist act by balancing above a large water bowl.
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- The tough-as-nails Amazon women on the island are tasked with protecting Miranda while performing acrobatic feats.
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- Miranda's fiendish pet Cali (Viktor Kee) is described by Cirque du Soleil as "half-lizard, half-human, all jealous." His impressive reptilian movements and somehow likeable nefariousness really stole the show.
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- The Peacock Goddess performs a dance in this stunning, ultra-feminine white tulle and lace dress dotted with thousands of Swarovski crystals.
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- The Peacock Goddess performs a dance in this stunning, ultra-feminine white tulle and lace dress dotted with thousands of Swarovski crystals.
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- The clowns Jeeves and Deeda meet for the first time, and things quickly take a turn for the romantic.
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- For the first time in Cirque du Soleil's history, the show features an all-female band.
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- This motley crew of sailors, captured by the island's Amazon women, make their graceful, playful escape with the help of a well-placed teeter-totter.
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- The Balance Goddess's breathtaking display of equilibrium brought a long hush to the crowd.
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- The Balance Goddess's breathtaking display of equilibrium brought a long hush to the crowd.
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- This scene, inspired by an Indonesian ritual dance, gives the illusion of one woman with dozens of arms moving in unison.
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- After a whirlwind romance, clowns Jeeves and Deeda are about to be mommy and daddy to a collection of football-shaped babies.
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- The most impressive thing about this tightrope routine: one of the performers crosses the wire wearing high heels.
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- The inevitable wedding scene: after overcoming some unlikely obstacles, Miranda and Romeo finally tie the knot.
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