Friday, March 22, 2013

FAIRFAX, VA

A circus for the mind and soul
Les 7 Doigts de la Main brings ‘PSY’ to Fairfax

 
Photo by Peggy Faye
Montreal-based circus and acrobatic troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main brings “PSY” to George Mason University on March 29 and 30.

from:  fairfaxtimes.com
by Keith Loria,Special to the Times
March 21, 2013
For years, circus artists Isabelle Chassé, Shana Carroll, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider, Sébastien Soldevila and Samuel Tétreault performed in large circuses, including many of the popular Cirque du Soleil productions.
One day, these seven friends and colleagues got to talking, and decided they wanted to form their own company and do something a little different. In 2002, the seven went on retreat together in Montreal and came up with the idea for Les 7 Doigts de la Main, which translates literally as “the seven fingers of the hand.”
 
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Photo by Peggy Faye
There’s never a dull moment when Montreal-based circus and acrobatic troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main takes the stage. The group brings its “PSY” show to George Mason University next weekend.

“We wanted to be creative and make the transition to being choreographers and directors and having our own ideas,” Carroll said. “We were working for very big companies and we wanted to do something more intimate and bring the circus to a human scale. We wanted to make it something very family based.”
It didn’t take long for the word to get out and soon the troupe was performing all over the world with their unique take on the circus, combining more of a theatrical element to it. Over the years, it has created several works, including “Loft,” “Traces,” “La Vie,” “Fibonacci Project,” “Patinoire,” “A Muse” and “Sequence 8.”
In its newest show, titled “PSY” (pronounced P-S-Y), the renowned acrobatic troupe delves into the surrealistic underworld of the human psyche with an edgy, pulse-raising theatrical experience.
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