In an ongoing effort to further its mission to entertain and evoke emotions of people around the world, this Friday Cirque du Soleil invites fans to tune-in for a new CirqueConnect 60-minute special ...

In the Greek myth, Icarus flies too close to the sun, falling to his death in the water below when his wax wings melt. The Cirque du Soleil show Varekai imagines that instead of landing in the sea, ...

Is art inanimate? Or can it come alive? Fabrice Lemire, artistic director for the Cirque du Soleil show “Varekai,” thinks it can. “I love this idea of what I call the living performing art,” Lemire ...

So is Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai," which opened Thursday at the Bank of Kentucky Center, really a circus? It does have jugglers. Acrobats, too. And trapeze acts and tumblers. There are even a couple ...

For Cirque du Soleil shows, inspiration comes from myriad sources — fables, myths, magic, Mozart, Shakespeare, even The Beatles and Michael Jackson. But rarely has the origin of a production been this ...

The sky lets go a solitary young man, and the story of “Varekai” begins. The figure is none other than the mythical figure Icarus, who has flown too close to the sun and is in a free-fall into the ...

Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai" began its Baton Rouge performances on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at the Baton Rouge River Center. The tour will be in town through March 16. (Photo by Brianna Paciorka, | ...

“Cirque du Soleil” is French for “Circus of the Sun,” and anyone who has witnessed its jaw-dropping celestial acrobatics knows the title could not be more fitting. Founded in 1984 in Montreal, Cirque ...