Circuses

Comrade Kim Goes Flying Is the First Fiction Film Shot in North Korea and Co-Produced with the West. How Did It Happen?

By Doug Cummings Comrade Kim Goes Flying is one of the most unique and entertaining features at this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The first fiction feature shot in North Korea and co-produced by both Western and North Korean companies, it sidesteps current political tensions to o ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Offshoot of Cirque du Soleil

This week's dance events include the arrival of nouveau circus Traces and the 6th Annual Pasadena Dance Festival wraps up. 5. Pasadena does festivals besides the Rose Parade The week-long Pasadena Dance Festival peaks with a series of jam-packed shows. Up-and-coming dancemakers and their companie ... More >>

Half-Pipe, With a Twist

UniverSoul Circus Boycotted By Animal Rights Activists; Show Says Animals Treated Well

Activists are targeting theUniverSoul Circus today because it apparently uses captive wild animals as part of the entertainment. The show says the animals are well-treated. The production has been on the Inglwood stop of its "Mash It Up" tour since March 16, but Animal Defenders International (ADI) ... More >>

How Normand Latourelle Turned His Bizarre Dreams About Horses Into a $30 Million Spectacle

Normand Latourelle dreams about horses. Such dreams are appropriate because Latourelle is the creator of the touring shows Cavalia and Odysseo, which, for lack of a better description, have been called "Cirque du Soleil with horses." As one of the original co-founders of Cirque, Latourelle doesn't m ... More >>

Edwardian Ball 2013: Gorey Meets Steampunk Meets Burning Man Meets Jazz Age Meets EDM Meets Just About Everything Else

Back in the old days, when the Edwardian Ball was known as the Edward Gorey Ball, it was a small affair. Justin Katz and his band, Rosin Coven, provided the music to go along with story narration. They used a slide project to showcase Gorey's images. A few years later, Vau de Vire Society, a San Fra ... More >>

We Watch Performers Do Crazy Tricks at the Cirque Du Soleil Auditions

See also: Our slideshow of the Cirque du Soleil auditions Watching a Cirque du Soleil show is so trippy you'll be convinced someone slipped a tab of acid on your tongue. Last week, the circus traveled to L.A.'s Kinetic Theory searching for new talent. Apparently, it's not enough to be a human Gum ... More >>

Iris

Cirque d'Oils

A Cinderella That Shines

Ovo

Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

Atomic Holiday Free-Fall at Actors' Gang Raises the Question: Was Cirque du Soleil Created by Aliens?

Cecile DelepiereAliens from planet Cirque​Christmas, 1963. At 20 minutes before 8 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, weather watchers observe several explosions of incandescent hydrogen gas, occurring at regular intervals on a planet called Cirque. The gas begins moving with enormous velocity toward ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil's Gymnasts and Dancers on Their Work and Lives In L.A.

Iris

Danny Elfman Scores New Los Angeles Cirque Du Soleil Show "Iris"

Zachary Pincus-RothDanny Elfman At The Kodak Theatre Preview of Cirque du Soleil's Iris​The game at Cirque du Soleil has always been to find new and different ways to bookend the acrobats we all came here to see, and their latest strategy at their upcoming resident show at the Kodak Theatre is ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil's Iris Preview at the Kodak Theater: Upcoming Show Will Be Porn for Tim Burton Fans

Zachary Pincus-Roth​ The most striking aspect of the press preview of Cirque Du Soleil's upcoming film-themed L.A. show Iris yesterday was the timeliness show's aesthetic: the costumes and production design generally were strikingly similar to that of Tim Burton, whose exhibit at LACMA just op ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil Costumes

Pileup on the 101 Freeway!

Cirque Berzerk at Club Nokia: Steampunk Circus in Hell

Lina Lecaro ​ [For behind the scenes coverage of Cirque Berzerk, see Liz Ohanesian's "Behind the Scenes with Cirque Berzerk".] What: Cirque Berzerk Where: Club Nokia When: 1/22/2011 Suggested attire for attendees of the wonderfully decadent and deranged Cirque Berzerk is "circus fabulous" so ... More >>

Circus INcognitus

Behind the Scenes with Cirque Berzerk at Club Nokia

Anticipation was high as we headed down to Club Nokia to meet with members of Cirque Berzerk, the dark and wonderfully twisted circus troupe that won praise and scores of new fans in 2009 when they performed at L.A. State Historic Park. After seven weeks of rehearsals, they were now a little more th ... More >>

100 WAYS TO RECOVER FROM THE HOLIDAYS

Down Home Hanukkah

Russian Circus Act Cruel to Fish, People as Well

Charlie Brewer/FlickrFish at Sydney Market​ Restaurants can be circus acts. You know the type: massive, splashy, loud, with iffy, over-priced food and, more often than not, some off-putting, over-wrought theme. Still, even Ninja New York can't hold a candle to a real circus act, especially o ... More >>

Breaking: Olivia Munn To Protest Circus With PETA In Downtown Los Angeles

​Suddenly this whole PETA protest of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus outside Staples Center got a whole lot more interesting. PETA tweeted (via LA Observed) that G4 television host Olivia Munn will be joining the anti-circus festivities at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Suddenly we're down ... More >>

CIRQUE DU CIENEGA

EXHIBITIONISTS WANTED

Circus Welt

GET HAI

JiRaffe Joins the Circus (Metaphorically) With A Prix Fixe Menu

Erinn EichingerKooza Tickets​If you've been anywhere near the Santa Monica pier lately, you know the circus is in town: dominating the landscape these days is the yellow and blue striped big top that is Cirque du Soleil. The troupe is in town with their new show Kooza. Chef Raphael Lunetta ... More >>

Blood on the Dance Floor

CIRQUE DU SO LIMBER

Theater Reviews: Kooza, Chesapeake, Private Eyes

Also, Stray, Wonder of the World, and more

Cirque du Soleil: Kooza

WHO SAID JUGGLING CAN'T BE A FULFILLING CAREER?

Kabinet Theatre: The Wandering Marionettes Usher In LA's Burner Wave

Shannon CottrellThe Wandering Marionettes Present Kabinet Theatre​ Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and hardened to form organic designs. Scattered between the party-goers were ... More >>

Death's a Circus: Cirque Berzerk Combines Acrobatics with a Post-Rave, Post-Goth Sensibility

View more photos in the "Cirque Berzerk @ Los Angeles State Historic Park" slideshow Shannon CottrellIt's a humdrum world. Every day you hustle through city streets amidst a sea of suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying clones. Then you die and the party begins. Cirque Berzerk's Beneath, which opened la ... More >>

Circus of the Bizarre

Into the Mystic

Stage Raw: Mystic

MYSTIC"A visceral theatrical experience exploring the mystery of human origin, the evolution of consciousness and galactic destiny." All this includes performers from Rabbit in the Moon, Blue Man Group, Lucent Dossier, Mixology and Mass Ensemble.The dance performance happens Thursday through Sunday, ... More >>

POSTPONED!! Forget the Whales -- Save the Puppets!

Life as Circus