Luzia (Cirque du Soleil)

Luzia
Logo for Cirque du Soleil's Luzia
Company	Cirque du Soleil
Genre	Contemporary circus
Show type	Touring show
Date of premiere	April 21, 2016 (Montreal)
Creative team
Conception and Director	Daniele Finzi Pasca
Associate Director	Brigitte Poupart
Director of Creation	Patricia Ruel
Playwright	Julie Hamelin Finzi
Set and Props Designer	Eugenio Caballero
Costume Designer	Giovanna Buzzi
Composer and Musical Director	Simon Carpentier
Acrobatic Choreographer	Edesia Moreno Barata Debra Brown Sylvia Gertrúdix González
Puppet Designer	Max Humphries
Lighting Designer	Martin Labrecque
Projection Designer	Johnny Ranger
Sound Designer	Jacques Boucher
Acrobatic Performance Designer	Philippe Aubertin
Acrobatic Equipment and Rigging Designer	Danny Zen
Makeup Designer	Maryse Gosselin
Other information
Preceded by	Paramour (2016)
Succeeded by	Sép7imo Día - No Descansaré (2017)
Official website

Luzia is a Cirque du Soleil show inspired by the richness of the Mexican culture. The name Luzia fuses the sound of luz (light in Spanish) and lluvia (rain), two elements at the core of the show’s creation.

Luzia has a cast of 44 artists from 15 different countries and is Cirque du Soleil’s 38th production since 1984, and its 17th show presented under the Big Top. Its creative team comprises 16 creators under the artistic guidance of Guy Laliberté (Guide) and Jean-François Bouchard (Creative Guide).

Acts

• Hoop Diving
• Adagio
• Cyr Wheel & Trapeze
• Handbalancing
• Football Freestyle
• Pole Dance
• 360 Swing
• Aerial Straps
• Juggling
• Contortion
• Russian Swings

Music

The music listed bellow is from the soundtrack released at the premier of the show, but does not represent the live music in the show. The soundtrack was recorded in partnership with 'Bostich + Fussible' (real names: Ramón Amezcua and Pepe Mogt) who remixed some of the Luzia songs composed by Simon Carpentier. In an interview with Billboard.com, Alain Vinet, Cirque's musical director the reason for the partnership was because "Normally, the albums come out six months down the road, or a year down the road [after the show opens], because when we are in creation, the musicians are really, really busy; it’s impossible for us to take them out of the creation. But the mandate was for us to have the CD for the opening of the show. The only way we could achieve this was to outsource the production of the CD, and that is why we went with Nortec."^[1] Rather than remixing all the songs from the show, 10 songs were chosen that represent 10 of the main themes in the show and although the melody is very similar to the live songs, the rhythm has been altered to achieve a more dance-orientated, pop-music style.

Track titles as they appear in order on the CD:

1. Asi Es La Vida (Hoop Diving)
2. Tiembla La Tierra (Adagio)
3. Flores En El Desierto (Cyr Wheel & Trapeze)
4. Pambolero (Football Freestyle)
5. Pez Volador (Handbalancing)
6. Los Mosquitos (Pole Dance)
7. Alebrijes (Contortion)
8. Tlaloc (Aerial Straps)
9. Cierra Los Ojos (End of Act 1)
10. Fiesta Finale (Curtain Call)

Tour

Luzia began its Grand Chapiteau tour in North America in its specially designed white and yellow Big Top designed based on the solar system to reflect the importance of space and especially the moon in the Mexican culture which inspired the show. The main tent is white with yellow curves to represent the paths of the planets around the moon and the artistic tent is yellow to represent the sun.

The following colorboxes indicate the region of each performance:
 EU   Europe  NA   North America  SA   South and Central Americas  AP   Asia/Pacific  OC   Oceania  AF   Africa

Grand Chapiteau tour

2016 schedule

2017 schedule

References

External links

• Official site