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spectacle, the world's most famous purveyor of the weird and wondrous delivers yet again. Taking inspiration from James Cameron's epic sci-fi film Avatar, the Canadian- based company explores an alternate universe in TORUK - The First Flight. Co-creators and directors Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, along with playwright Olivier Kemeid, transport audiences to Pandora, the distant moon exploited by fuel-hungry humans in the motion picture (but 300 years before man transgressed there). State-of-the-art projections conjure fantastic landscapes which the company's peerless performers inhabit with head-scratching ease, moving commandingly through space as if spun from Hollywood's best special effects lab. And for the first time in a Cirque production, there's a narrator to guide specta- tors through the imagination-testing tale. "A Cirque du Soleil show normally has a lot of characters, but you don't know the story of their lives, their emotions," says Lemieux. "Having a storyteller gives the audience some clues to identify more with the characters. It's a different show, different tools, but the same desire to invoke, provoke, evoke." August 3-7 at United Center, 1901 W. Madison St., 312-455- 4500; unitedcenter.com . Women of seismic ambition and boundless ingenuity, they catapulted to the top of their field." —doug Wright michiganavemag.com 67