#cirque du soleil costumes

[acetheticsdraws]

This isn’t art, but I thought it'd be fun to share my Cirque du Soleil inspired Halloween costumes from past years (and this year)

Eggman from ‘Beatles: LOVE’ (2024)

Mover from ‘Zarkana’ (2023)

The Crying Woman from ‘Luzia’ (2021)

Batteur de Rue/The Street Drummer from ‘Kurios’ (2020)

[ophelialoveshandsomemen]

Say what you will about Van Helsing 2004; hate it, love it, be indifferent, But the All-Hallow's masquerade ball went sooooo hard and it had zero right to do so! It's a fun, campy, monster mash movie with wonderfully dated ( and expensive) cgi and non-stop action meant to be a popcorn flick one takes out to watch around spooky season. And it has this* chef's kiss* GORGEOUS 6 minute sequence plopped arbitrarily in the second act, which unexpectedly surpasses nearly every other ball in the last 30+ years of film( notable exception being the Cinderella 2015 ball) for literally no reason other than to be dramatic af.

Like feast your eyes on this Gothic masterpiece!!! Who doesn't want to immediately live in this picture?!??

They used those candles with oil in them so that they would have real candles, real string orchestra( I believe), probably around 100 real life extras( something which is tragically absent in modern film), said extras are all in beautiful fully decked-out costumes( which are in luxuriously dark colours, but nearly no fully black, another thing you cannot say for much modern cinema), REAL CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PERFORMERS for all the acrobatics!!!! Hell, instead of filming in a sound stage, where they could control the reverb and the acoustics and the size of the set and the bloody lighting ( they apparently had a heck of a time emulating the firelight for this sequence) and the temperature( it's very cold in stone churches!) better, they filmed in a Baroque church in Prague! As I said, peak dramatic splendour, jfc...

Think about that a second...They filmed a vampire masquerade in a Baroque Catholic Church( St. Nicholas' in Lesser Town, if you were curious) with amazing over-the-top acoustics and marble statues and real, tiled floors and marble pillars and a choir loft which they very much utilized, covered the pipe organ and the altar with a grand brocade curtain so it wouldn't be so obviously a, you know, a church! And there's a gold gilt elevated and canopied pulpit into which they put two vampire kiddies for, again, the sake of being dramatic.

And the costumes! They remind me of the 25th anniversary Phantom of the Opera Masquerade costumes. Same quality, like they're old, well-cared-for costumes pulled out of a warehouse, instead of fast industry churn-outs. With lots of trim and colour and masks and lace and feathers and..just...ugh.. they are all perfect! Just look at all the head pieces on the ladies and the hats on all the gentleman ( save Dracula of course) and the powdered wigs on the musicians. ANNNNDD! The dresses are historically correct!!!!!! It's the 80's bustle era! Nobody does the 80's bustle era in film anymore and it's a bummer. Oh and one other thing! Anna's ( and other women's) hair, at least here in the ball, is also historically accurate because it's all pinned up! None of those fucken modern beachwaves at a ball! Everybody's got updo's!

Gah, I swear, Dracula in his gold cloak really does things to me in this scene!

By the way, the acrobatics are bonkers in here for just background stuff!! Especially the random guys on unicycles and the dude playing the violin whilst standing on a ball...Like....WHAT?

Anyways, all this to say, that this masquerade ball feels sooo real and tangible and because of that it blows every other film out of the water, and no, I will not change my mind!!!!!

Here's a few more gifs, bcuz, why the hell not, this scene is sexy as fuu*ck?

Alright I need to go to bed now.

[chopshajen]

~ The Trickster Cat ~ Compelling, Enigmatic, Condescending ~

I said a bit ago that I had a Kooza/Cats crossover in mind and even if it was cursed I would draw it anyways, and here it is now, surprisingly uncursed, or at least, surprisingly satisfactory! I'll have to do some dance poses sooner or later but I'm happy with this as a start :3

I tried to keep the design true to both sources of inspiration. Some thoughts on the design under the cut:

There are some elements of the Trickster's design that translate pretty well to stage!Cats costumes, namely the smooth-limb effect of the Trickster's extra-long sleeves and flared pant legs compared with the Cats arm/legwarmers. It's something I really like about the traditional Cats costumes (and a big part of why Cats 2019's designs don't work)* and something I REALLY like about the Trickster's outfits, so it's great for me.

*For further expansion on the subject, @missing-sock-misto has a great breakdown of the Cats costumes here. The relevant part is this:

They help shape the limbs and invoke the feeling of fluff. Human limbs taper, especially at the joints: wrists, elbows, knees, ankles. The arm and leg warmers help cover this, because they’re thick, making them more like cat limbs, which are functionally tubes.

It's one of the first elements I noticed when I first watched the Cats stage show, and when started interrogating myself as to why I liked the designs so much, I realized its importance in "evoking felinity", as azerairis and missing-sock put it. There are a lot of Cats adaptations that, for some godsforsaken reason, get rid of the arm and leg warmers, and it's almost always a mistake. We're trying to make them look like cute cats, not like painted humans.

For the Trickster, why they have long sleeves and flared pant legs may not be as obvious, but they do still serve a visual purpose. They make the Trickster appear that much more ethereal and otherworldly. Everything about them is smooth and continuous - legs flowing into feet, stripes swirling uninterrupted across their body, movement lithe and serpentine - and that makes them seem inhuman, especially when put in contrast with the stick-like, stumbling, uncertain Innocent.

Other more minor elements also translate pretty well. For instance, the Trickster's makeup is already very exaggerated, as is their "hairline" (hat...line?), in a way that doesn't look out of place in Cats. They have stripes on their face, monochrome eyes, and the :3 kitty mouth. The stripes on their body were easy to translate as well. Honestly I didn't have to think over it as much as I expected LOL Except for the wig. Don't ask me how that works. I do think this design is maybe...too simplistic? Like I maybe could've incorporated some of the suit elements of their costume, cuz the Trickster does look kind of odd without their tie. But I wasn't going to give them a collar because pfffftbl lmao could you imagine. Maybe they could have something Skimbleshanks-esque for a top with some formality to it, though I'm not sure putting human clothes on a cat version of an unknowable trickster god person makes sense either LOL

[drjohnwatson]

FINALLY made a (full) costume again! This time Ela from Cirque du soleil's Volta. This is just a quick testrun before wearing it next week.

Next up homelander (and some smaller projects). B)

[storyweaverofgondor]

I think that Cats 98 and Cirque Du Soleil did really just ruin any chance of me finding normal humans attractive, huh? Like if you don't at absolute minimum look like Bombalurina or that caterpillar girl from Varakai i just don't get it.

[rhonuscorner]

I slaved away on this for so long lol. THE GRIND WAS REAL. But he's done, in his forever fancy updated costume because this bot can't not be fancy!

I don't know how much of the quality tumblr is gonna eat, so uh... download the pic for the best view.

Now I have to do the same for Sun and Moon (and also completely redesign their costumes because I don't like the ones I originally came up with).

Cirque des Célestes is my Cirque du Soleil inspired AU, in which Sun, Moon and Eclipse are world famous celebrities and the main performers in this traveling circus theater. Y/N will have a surprise run-in with them and get ✨involved,✨ way more than they bargained for when they find out that things aren't what they seem behind the scenes and away from the public eye. Eclipse's role is that of the Master of Ceremonies, he opens and closes the shows and weaves the acts together with bits of storytelling inbetween. Sun and Moon are the main performers.

If you have any questions about Eclipse or this AU, feel free to send them my way. ^-^

[tgmsunmontue]

Bradley who runs away and joins the circus. It's just pure luck that the circus is actually in town, and it's not a circus with animals, more of a Cirque du Soleil with training wheels.

So he ends up as a crew member, and he's strong and able, very willing to follow instructions. It's whole different lifestyle from the regimented military he'd been thinking was going to be his life, but he leans into it.

The trapeze artists find him watching and ask him if he wants to try, and sure, why the hell not right? Plus he's tall and got strong arms so some of the gymnasts also start getting him to work out with him. His flexibility improves and his skills on the trapeze do as well.

Also he's exposed to a whole range of sexualities and genders which he'd never really considered before, so it's an awakening of another sort and there's plenty of experience and learning opportunities there as well.

He soaks it all in like a sponge.

In ~10 years Jake is taking his sisters to see Cirque du Soleil while he's home on leave and a certain performer catches his eye. So he goes back for every available show and he becomes a little bit of a fan and learns his name etc. But he's not that much of a creeper to actually approach Bradley, so just leaves it.

Then he's in a coffee shop, waiting for his order, and then the Barista calls out "Bradley Bradshaw" and hell no, there is no way... But there he is, no makeup or sparkly costume but somehow looking like a fucking wet dream and Jake manages to look all cool and suave by tripping over his own feet and spilling his coffee all down Bradley Bradshaw's pants.

[missbliss12]

A Fateful Meeting at Cirque de Halley. (I hope that's right for the French)

I wanted to imagine Haly's Circus as Cirque du Soleil-inspired, with the Flying Graysons as fantastically made-up sun conure-esque performers. Sun conures are not only Robin costume-colored - they also hail from Brazil, a country which apparently has the second biggest Romani community in the world!

This illustration also riffs off how Batman was a more serious, somber comic series before the character Robin appeared in Detective Comics #38, around March 1940. I imagine, in-universe, Dick would bring color and life to Bruce's brutal grey life.

...Ah, they are such a fun dynamic.

[pinksilvace]

what is this funny circus thing you keep posting about. it has captivated me

RUBS MY HANDS TOGETHER IN A VERY EXCITED MANNER LIKE A FLY WHO HAS DISCOVERED STRAWBERRIES

Cirque du Soleil ("circus of the sun") is a Montreal-based company that's been producing animal-less circus shows since 1984 (you may recall a joke about this from Madagascar 3 lol). Most follow a very basic plot of "[character] gets isekai'd for approximately 1h38m then goes home" but it's honestly so much more fun to make up stories one one's own imho. They're also usually composed in Grommelot, an invented language that's usually a mix of multiple languages and gibberish - i.e., it's not supposed to be understood.

A little-known fact about me is that I grew up watching recordings of these shows (because ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE HAS A PROSHOT 🙏) and love them to bits. I've seen Alegria (pre-revival), Kooza, and Kurios live as well.

The official CdS youtube channel has been uploading tons of compilations since 2020. This year, to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary, they've also been releasing a bunch of abridged versions of their shows, which you can view on youtube here.

I'm going to yammer on about my 3 favorites under the cut now :))))

1: Varekai

oghhghgh my gosh I love this show. so much. absolutely devastated it's not touring anymore :(. If they ever bring it back then I NEED to see it. You understand

This has one of the more plotty premises: rather than falling to the sea and dying, it begins with Icarus falling into a strange land and healing through the power of... love? Communal support? It doesn't really matter because the MUSIC and the STAGING and the COSTUMES oh my GOD the COSTUMES. It's such a bright and fun time with good vibes all around and I cannot recommend it enough. Bonus for Greek mythology references. Did I mention the COSTUMES

2: Quidam (2 and 3 are interchangeable for me, depends on my mood)

CdS claims that this show isn't about much. This is a lie. I could write SO MANY ESSAYS on the symbolism in Quidam and all the different interpretations people have about it. Its soundtrack is also an absolute banger that I love listening to on my own time.

The only thing to be aware of before going into Quidam is that it's a bit of a downer. I think it's the most somber of any CdS show I know of.

3: Alegria (original)

Possibly the most well-known CdS show. No joke, I think I've been watching this proshot for my entire life. I think I saw this proshot before I ever saw a cartoon.

Another great soundtrack - I like the original 1994 recording the best. Francesca Gagnon is ICONIC as the singer in white.

This is one of the few non-isekai shows out there; it depicts a kingdon that has just lost its king and shows a brewing tension between the "old birds" in the aristocracy and the young upstarts who hope for structural change.

Mystère may have been the show that solidified the CdS format, but Alegria is so ridiculously well-known and unforgettable that it's always struck me as the cirque show. It makes for a great entry point.

[randomfoggytiger]

Is it a popular fan belief that the jean shirt that Mulder wears in the pilot is the same jean shirt that Scully later wears? If so, how did she get the shirt? Did she just take it from him during one of their trips? And he's ok with it. Does she tell him, "no, I bought one just like yours and got it oversized too for comfort".

Orrrrrr.....they hooked up right away and that's why Ethan and her Cirque Du Soleil guy disappear because Spooky and Scully got it on right away, but Scully being a "by the rules" kind of gal gets nervous and backs off. She keeps him jean jacket as a momento of living on the edge:) Eh? Yeah, please, maybe:)

I don't know if it's a popular belief, but it's a fun fan theory. :DDDDD

While we know the jacket was likely part of the set's costumes-- recycled because of the limited wardrobe-- that doesn't explain how it jumped from Mulder to Scully canonically.

I see four theories:

It was Mulder's: he handed it over while both were trapped up in the woods. This wouldn't make too much sense to me, because Scully would have had to be prepared to "slum it" in nature a few days due to the case.

It's not Mulder's: it was a cast-off (be it Bill's or Charlie's or her father's) that her mother gave to Scully. This would fit in a hypothetical post Beyond the Sea weeding out and downsizing.

It was Mulder's: Scully kept it from a rendezvous. This doesn't make much sense to me, either, because both don't exhibit any signs of having fallen into bed together (yet.)

It was Scully's: she has a patchwork wardrobe because of student loans and an under developed fashion sense (which changes into sleek, manicured designs and silks in two to three years.)

Personally, I don't believe it's his. What makes sense to me is that this was the early 90s and denim was in-- oversized denim, specifically. I can easily see Scully buying an oversized piece and stuffing it in her bag for a camping trip: she hadn't "glowed up" yet with her fashion choices, and she probably didn't have a large budget to do so. (Or the cast-off theory, though it doesn't have to fall post Beyond the Sea-- I just think it'd make sense as a 'recent' purchase during the denim craze.)

What do you think, anon? :DDDDDD

[nightimedreamersworld]

Let me fall

A collab for the @carryon-reverse-bang

Art concept by: @rimeswithpurple

Fic by @nightimedreamersworld

Rating: Mature

Status: 1/8 chapters

Summary:

The thing about working at Cirque du Soleil is you're either born into it, or you're lucky enough to get roped in. For Baz, who grew up in Cirque, that means living up to his mother's legacy. For Simon, a former Olympic gymnast, it means finding a place to call home. When the tension between them finally comes to a head, Simon and Baz are forced to create a new act together and learn how to trust each other. After all, when you work in the most magical place in the world, falling is always a risk...

It's here! My first CORB fic. It's a Cirque du Soleil au, complete with incredible costumes, breathtaking acts and endless pining. Keep an eye out for Purple's art, it's literally stunning!

Here's a peek at her original art concept, which inspired the whole story:

[davestridernb]

@duskyashe​ here is my Raven (eldritch Nightwing) design from Encryptid/Calling All The Monsters! Drawn in sketchbook & colored on the computer. Feat. colored sketch and concept of how it looks in the dark. Very long details below the cut.

Firstly, the pose and drawing style used on the left is inspired by Lilo & Stitch, because of the description "He held his ready stance for a count of eight, then started relaxing parts of his body opposite how one would normally relax their body, starting with his legs and working his way up to his shoulders." which reminded me of how character weight was drawn in the movie opposite of how it usually is, keeping the weight rooted low with gravity and pulled towards the ends of the limbs.

The coloration concept is based off of animals that have direction-dependent color, the most famous of which is the blue morpho butterfly, but one which most people have probably also seen is the super black bird of paradise. So the idea of how that works in the wild is that tilting movements or seeing it at the right angle causes a disorienting flash of color, which I hoped to use here for Raven!Nightwing's eldritch illusion.

His fingerstripes aren't strictly straight but more inspired by tree bark/veins/cirque du soleil costumes, where lines that curve across limbs make the poses look more twisted and fantastical rather than emphasizing the actual direction of the limb, which is what the straighter lines in most hero costumes are supposed to do.

His wingsuit structure as described is a snap-out style that he holds the ends of when he flies, which I've augmented with small electromagnets to seal the airspace between his arms and the wings, which can turn on and off with a current. The structure itself is similar to the draco lizard in nature, where the draco lizard has modified rib bones that hinge at the top of its wings and fold back down to its sides when not in use. The edges on the wingsuit have a soft tattered texture that helps silence the wings like owls' feathers, as well as obscure the outline a little.

I wanted to avoid showing human skin, so I used a full face mask and repurposed the Nightwing V into an abstract suggestion of a beak. His real eyes can either be disguised with colored lenses that match the stripe or can be white, but there are also decoy eyes scattered in different spots on the suit that have cameras. At first it was just the two on the sides of the head to increase peripheral vision, but I thought it would be super cool if Raven could just see in a bunch of directions and into small spaces like Emily Eyefinger just because he has several small working cameras in different locations on his body. Ravens and eldritch beings are both associated with eyes so it works? ^u^

Regarding the wing coloration, this was the last addition to the design. I considered eyespots, just as I considered larger wings, but I really wanted to avoid the design getting mistaken for Mothman from a distance. The premise of the AU relies on the power of belief, so people need to recognize Raven on sight and also believe he's an eldritch being, so I went with one big solid eye that no one expects just opening out of the darkness when you’ve done something wrong. Yikes. Raven knows where you sleep.

[chopshajen]

I got to see Cirque du Soleil’s Koozå and was immediately infected with brain worms because the Trickster is just SO cool. I’ve thought about nothing but them for like an entire week

[figureskatingcostumes]

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps's short program costumes at the 2023 Grand Prix Final, 2024 Four Continents, 2023 Cup of China and 2024 Worlds. They skated to Oxygène from Cirque du Soleil.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

[rachelsshowerthoughts]

I know its been awhile but I had some thoughts about Fable, namely their introduction after being Akumatized.

Assuming anyone saw it and given the students & maybe Caline were listening in, they may have burst in when the fight broke out only to see them Akumatized.

If the whole of Paris isn't swept up instantly by sheer emotional gravitation, I imagine its a bit like:

Chloe - & so the true villain of the piece is born!

Kagami - & so it was, three folded souls united in grief and rage became one, the Akuma, Fable.

Adrien - & so our dear narrator forgot to mention out stunning sense of style; I guess this story really will be a tragedy!

Chloe (muttering to herself and flickering between different faces & persona, rage, grief, ego, he/ro -Error- as she's forced back down)

Kagami - As ever, your bid to inject humor into agony fails to stem the tide.

Adrien - As ever, there was never anything to be done.

Chloe - As ever, its our time, time to at last to bring about everyone's Happily! Never! After!

All three place their hands on the desk, each chanting one of the words as the power builds and swells.

People begin running but there's no escape.

The last thing anyone of the class hears before being subsumed is Adrien's amused intonation of:

"That's right, its a play on words."

NOTE:

I considered having Chloe ranting, Its time, its time, its time! to show her changing faces, but I really liked the thing I accidentally started with all three starting their sentences with the same thing words to create a sense of narrative and thematic cohesion between their roles.

So, first thoughts. Yeah, Caline opening the door, seeing the Akuma, and trying to get everyone to run.

(Though, the first thing that occurred to me was - open door. See monster. Close door. Calmly turn to students. "Right. Everyone, run for your lives.")

I like the repeating sentence starts!

I think when I first thought of the "changing masks" it was. Like. Literal masks? Cause I was thinking of their costumes in terms of ballet, masquerades, Cirque du Soleil, stuff like that. So, the Masks are literally hovering around Chloé, like a swarm of angry bees. Cause, again, all of the kids, besides their role as Narrator/Playwright, Minstrel/Editor, and Chronicler/Critic, besides their roles as Storytellers and Hosts, they are also cursed "royalty" waiting to be rescued. And the "curses" represent their relationship with their parents, both how they and others see them. 

Adrien is a prince, cursed to have his vitality and love siphoned away by his dad, who doesn’t give anything back. Adrien thinks his dad will love him eventually if he just tries hard enough, but Chloé and Kagami both see it as him draining Adrien until he's nothing left. So, a gorgeous Prince, made weak by the vines digging into his skin, but who refuses to let them be removed.

Kagami is the warrior heir, cursed to be crystal, unable to hide anything, or do anything she wasn’t "made" to do. She believes her crystal form to be a sign of strength, of her ability to endure, but Chloé and Adrien see it as control, a puppet whose strings are restriction of movement. If Kagami moves in a way she wasn’t "designed" for, her crystal form cracks, gains impurities. The only way to keep it pristine is to conform to her mother's wants, which keeps the crystal clear - and empty.

Chloé is a princess who's "curse" is being whatever her parents want - a brat, a doll, a trophy, a pawn. Chloé has had to be whatever her parents want, because they didn’t want HER. Kagami and Adrien both have wildly different views on Chloé too, which doesn’t help. The Masks are her curse, but also her shield. Cause, oddly enough, I see Chloé knowing herself fairly well, she just also knows that herself isn’t what most people want. So, the Masks swarm her, pressing themselves to her face, but Chloé is terrified of not having the masks. It would be fairly easy to rip the masks off, or at least pick which one she wants, but she's too scared. So, she welcomes each mask, clings to it as long as she can, before it rips off and another takes its place.

@tumblingxelian

[lotsadeer]

Hello it is @faelynfawn. Oh my gods, please inform me about your Cirque Du Soleil AU.

Me 🤝 You

Circus/Cirque Du Soleil AU

@faelynfawn I'm not on my pc so I cant find the post I made about it AND MIND I'm not a circus knowledge haver I'm a theatre kid who wanted to be a techie for CdS SO ALL OF MY THOUGHTS COME FROM THAT ASPECT

anyway so the show's story is based on 3rd Life, focusing on the war between Dogwarts and Monopoly Mountain, with intercuts of the different factions and individuals.

Scar's character is interesting because he is a clown who, upon killing the Red King, ceases to be a clown. I havent thought much past that yet but your circus au has me havin THOUGHTS on what he does in the show

If I was gonna write this fic (I have a mecha au fic I gotta do first) it would be UUUUH treebark because I'm me and I'm an absolute idiot for treebark. Specifically Martyn's perspective. Techie who bumble fucked his way into being the understudy for The Hand and then the performer got sick/injured so woops you're in the show now! And Ren who has been off and on flirting with this tech now gets to see him MORE?? best show ever.

All of my knowledge of CdS has to do with the like, acting and character archetypes and set design and lighting and shit. I am a techie through and through. I haven't looked at the circus aspect of it (yet).

I have uuuh

some drawings of Ren's costume I think. Cause I am also a costume design nerd.

Masquerade themes, everyone is wearing a mask to hide who they are etc etc THEMES also I like dual purpose costumes that change as the character changes by just undoing a snap. favourite shit right there.

tell me what you think I am very 👀 at your circus au also having Cirque du Soleil inspirations (shaking your hand as a theatre kid)