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“I feel like I have to get into the performers minds and skin, I have to look at them the way I would look at someone I am in love with, to figure out how to bring out both their strengths and their beautiful quirky weaknesses.” Shana Carroll, co-director-choreographer of Sequence 8
“A gorgeously pure, loose, and personal circus.” Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune
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Fresh from their 2011 Live Arts Festival hit Traces, 7 Fingers returns with the U.S. premiere of Sequence 8. The Montreal-based circus company creates circus on a human scale—placing the extraordinary element of circus in ordinary contexts. In extreme close-up, Sequence 8 features aerial hoops, rings, Korean board, cigar box juggling, Chinese acrobatics, and incredible feats of balance and beauty—all by performers whose basic human desires and qualities audiences can relate to.
The show takes inspiration from C. G. Jung’s quote, “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Emotions are so heightened they spring into action; relationships evolve until they spur actual velocity. Set not in a specific time or place but rather on a vertical canvas, Sequence 8 plays with how relationships and encounters with the other transform and propel the performers into wildly dynamic acrobatic movement.
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Direction and Choreography Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila Co-production Les Nuits de Fourvière/Département du Rhône, Lyon (Fr), TOHU (Montréal, Canada) Performers Eric Bates, Ugo Dario, Colin Davis, Devin Henderson, Alexandra Royer, Maxim Laurin, Camille Legris, Tristan Nielsen
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Les 7 Doigts de la Main (7 Fingers) is a twist on the French idiom the five fingers of the hand, which describes distinct parts moving in coordination towards one common goal. The company’s seven founding directors combine their distinct talents to work towards their common artistic goals—with the beautifully awkward dexterity of a seven-fingered hand. Other shows include Loft, La Vie, and Psy. Previous Live Arts Festival show: Traces (2011).
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Festival Producers
Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation
Festival Co-Producers
Cat, Annie, Steven, and Jennifer Bohnenberger
Nancy Lanham
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Sequence 8 was created with the support of the programme d’Aide à la coproduction du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, and le Conseil des arts de Montréal. Commissioning partners include Printemps des Comédiens (France), Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (USA), ArtsEmerson (USA), and CE Works (Japan).
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Ticket Information
Are you a student/25 or under? Go to the Kimmel Center Box Office to receive a $18 ticket. Valid ID required.
