Quick IRIS Facts
Resident Show: August 2010 - January 2013
Theater: Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, CA (Exclusive)
Writer and Director: Philippe Decoufle
Interesting Fact: The Atherton Twins performed in a one-time-only performance for the 84th Academy Awards, watched by an estimated 75 million viewers. This performance can be seen below.
The 84th Annual Academy Awards
Show photos
by Kevin Fauguembergue
Full performance video
From the famous Dolby Theater in Hollywood
A backstage look
IRIS by Cirque du Soleil s a lyrical, fanciful, kinetic foray into the seventh art. Bringing together dance, acrobatics, live video, filmed sequences and animation, the show takes spectators on a fantastic voyage through the history of cinema and its genres, taking them into the heart of the movie-making process. From illustration to animation, black and white to colour, silent films to talkies, fixed shots to swooping camera movements, spectators witness the poetic construction/deconstruction of this art as an object and as a way of transcending reality.
