Interactive projections designer Holger Forterer is using technology along with live performers to create a new art form. The Cirque press material describes these realistic images, explaining: “The video projections in KA are an intricate mix of computer-generated effects and human input that turn performance space into a cinema screen.” Choreographer Jacques Heim creates a series of acrobatically orchestrated jousts and combative practices that go beyond dance. Throughout show he has designed fluid dance sequences.

Guy Caron, credited as Director of Creation brings decades of theatrical and Cirque experience into play. According to Caron, “The script was element that dictated way theatre is built, and it determined how sets would be used. That’s totally new for Cirque du Soleil.”

Possibly Bellagio’s “O” theater, with its multi-leveled swimming pool to dry stage dictated sequences. The concept for theater came first, show second. With KA script came first. Caron and Robert Lepage take us on a journey that incorporates real and surreal.

After fighting and surviving elements royal princess and her caretakers find themselves on a beach where Michael Curry’s amazing sea creatures emerge. Backstage, master designer, renowned for Lion King, explained, “We’re trying to find a familiar world that is fantastic and different at same time.”

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— by Linda Lane, Las Vegas Correspondent.

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