With agility, deftness and sensitivity, a young man performs astounding dives and contortions in the net that holds him captive.

Now shrouded, Icarus rises up to the heavens he once so lustfully sought. Give thanks. His prayer has been answered and by the grace of the Gods, his shroud becomes a chrysalis. Writhing, falling, rising anew. His spirit and body are transformed as his father, Daedalus, and the others watch on. Icarus awakes with renewed vigor. He tests his “wings”, and, with a bit of boyish bravado, even imitates his fall from grace... Yet this time, he’s alive, ready to begin the beginning. The heavens lower him gently into a clearing where The Guide awaits.

The story of Cirque's Icarus is a rich one, filled with the essence of freedom. His drama takes flight as he descends into a populated forest full of curious creatures "costumed as mutant birds, insects or exotic hybrid species." Icarus is ensnared by a net, stripped of the wings that gave him flight, and is hoisted high above the forest floor. His struggle for freedom within the flexible cage touches on emotions harbored in us all. The right to freedom is an unsupressable human quality and is one played upon well as he triumphs over his imprisonment. In escaping his harsh encapturement, Icarus flies once again across the heavens in celebration.