As head of tent, I'm in charge of all the equipment.
I'm here to build the whole thing when doing the setup.
So responsible of the crew and the local staff.
For now on, since the big top is up,
now everybody, I think, feels like we're back home.
It's been exactly two years since we left the tour.
It was in Australia.
And now we're here in Toronto.
And I just arrived.
I saw my props here, which is chairs and table
and everything is safe, everything is taken care of
very safely, so I'm super happy.
And I'm so excited to do the premiere and start to perform again.
I am the head of carpentry and props.
I am in charge of a team
setting up and tearing down all the set pieces,
all the props, getting them ready for the show.
A very spectacular prop that we have in the show is the hand.
The hand is operated by two people,
one person essentially propelling it by hand.
And then there's a second person who's manipulating the fingers
by rocking their feet back and forth on a separate set of rotating...
kind of like a paddle boat.
Technical department's made up of a few specialized departments.
We have carpentry, props, sound, lighting, rigging, automation.
All of those elements are central to putting what we do on stage.
So just like the artists who train every day
to present their act on stage,
the technicians train their own show tracks.
A show track is a technical choreography that happens backstage,
kind of like a dance.
We rehearse and fine-tune this dance
so all the things that you see on stage are safe and on time.
Something particular about Kurios
is that all our technicians that are seen on stage,
are wearing a costume.
The costume that the technicians wear on stage
is composed of an overall
and goggles that are inspired by the Steampunk style.
We are responsible for dressing the show,
and helping the artists every day, during and after the show.
We are always here for them,
we need to make sure they know how to do their makeup,
they come for fittings,
and at the same time, we are in a close relationship
with the technical team,
with the artistic team, with the artistic director.
Sometimes the show's name will be the name of the hero.
In Kurios, it's not that.
In Kurios, our characters, some of them are performed by technicians.
And to me it was very important.
The title of the show is a character that is humble.
That is at the service, that contributes.
And to me it was important
to be able to turn to a technician and say,
"You know what? You're the hero of that show."
Because to me, technicians and artists are the ones who make the show.
I will work very hard,
but at the end of the day, they're the ones making the magic.
As an artist, my relationships to the technical departments
and all the team, it's like, it's a big family.
Everybody depends from each other.
Not only in the big top. I'm talking about in normal life.
So we are friends, we are family
and this is make our show so special.