Hull New Theatre – until 18th October 2025
Reviewed by Dawn Bennett
5*****
Dance Consortium presents Cirque Éloize ID Reloaded, Jeannot Painchaud (Creative Producer & Stage Director and Elon Höglund Choreographer & Associate Stage Director)
It’s going to be quite difficult to describe how good this show is in a few hundred words; it has to be one of the most high-octane professional shows I have seen in a long time. The Dance Consortium have always brought different and entertaining shows to Hull New Theatre and this was no exception.
It was set against a backdrop of an urban city landscape (designed by Frederick Ouellet) and the videos (Bernard Mauran, Yannick Doucet) sound (Rémy Jannelle) lighting (Stéphane Ménigot) Musical Composers (Jean-Phil Goncalves & Alex McMahon) really made this production world class.
The artists performed many different things, breakdancing, contemporary dance, acrobatics, circus skills, juggling, cyr wheel, trampoline, contortion, Chinese pole, straps, silks, hand to hand, ariels, chair balancing and trial bike (which ended on riding around the auditorium) we even had audience participation!
The performers Alexia Medesan, Adam Dranshfield, Bryan “Slinky” Boyer, Lakesshia “Kiki” Pierre, Trevor Bodogh, JP Deltell, Kayden Woodridge, Christopher Bate and Florence Amar were all jaw droppingly brilliant. It’s impossible to single out anyone separately as they were all so good. There is obviously a very large amount of trust involved in the performance as most of the show involves performing at height and they were all seamless in performing their roles.
This production is well worth watching, Hull was their last UK stop off on this part of the tour, they are now going abroad with it until April 2026. But if you can catch it on the rest of the tour or if they come back to the UK again try and go and watch them…you definitely won’t be disappointed!