Kurios (Cirque du Soleil) and could tick on forever." "The Globe and Mail" described the show as a "Kinetic, whimsical and astounding new production from Montreal’s Cirque du Soleil." Upon the show's debut in San Francisco the "San Francisco Chronicle" called "Kurios" "the best Cirque du Soleil show in a long time." The "San Jose Mercury News" wrote "For its 30th anniversary, Cirque du Soleil has concocted a dark and mysterious world that eschews the brightly colored eye candy for which the French Canadian juggernaut has become famous." Chris Jones of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote "Well, the Cirque has come roaring back with a
Soleil et chair that Rimbaud failed to go beyond the experiments of his predecessors. The fixation on sexuality in this poem is characteristic of much of Rimbaud's oeuvre, and it is moreover the sheer bluntness with which he communicates it that is so shocking, controversial, and typical of him. In what would otherwise seem like an innocent paean for nature, Rimbaud begins the first two lines with a graphic image of the sun essentially ejaculating its light onto the nubile earth. The poem's speaker revels in his position between the lustful relationship of the sun and earth. "Soleil et chair," like some of