KÀ

KÀ Review

For its fourth show on the Strip, Cirque du Soleil knew it had to swing for the fences to keep from lapsing into repetition. KÀ is the company's bold step into linear storytelling, an attempt to unfurl a live version of such martial-arts period fantasies as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the adventures of two separated twins. The spectacle includes huge puppets and live-time video. Even the arrangement of a fixed stage is replaced by an 80,000-pound deck that's maneuvered by a giant gantry arm into all sorts of positions, including vertical. In time, however, the show took a backseat to Love and remains divisive among Cirque fans; those not sitting close enough to see faces can be confused by the story, which is told without dialogue. Still, it remains an amazing monument to the sky's-the-limit mentality that fueled Vegas in the go-go 2000s.