In ECHO, Cirque du Soleil breathes movement and wonder into the famous red-and-white striped Big Top of Montreal’s Old Port. Featuring FUTURE, her dog EWAI, and the mysterious, ever-changing CUBE that the pair uncovers, ECHO reflects on the deeply entwined, always evolving relationship between humanity, animals, and the natural world.
While ECHO’s narrative follows each of these three pillars, its movement (featuring 53 artists) centres around the Cube—the titular echo’s physical and metaphorical epicentre. Intricate choreography and acrobatics, live music, and immersive visuals unfold as the performers dismantle and rebuild the structure in an amalgam of fluid, animalistic motions, and more rigid, synchronized patterns, inspired by human invention and science.
Simultaneous to this controlled frenzy is Future’s journey of self-discovery, ushered by EWAI’s encouraging presence, which prompts Future to forge connections with the animals and other characters the pair comes across. Countering the Cube’s strikingly physical transformation with a psychological one, Future’s journey makes clear the symbiotic connection between the Cube, Future, and EWAI; and thus between nature, human, and animal.
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