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Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, February 11, 2017

One Set

[7:46 PM; we find our seats; the pre-show entertainment is in full swing!]

  • Clowning around and playing games with the crowd
  • the set looks a lot like an Ikea kitchen
  • Sidney tosses lemons into the the audience – playing catch – but squirts them with a water bottle if they drop the lemon or make a bad throw
  • Pablo gives lessons (in the crowd) in one-handed egg-cracking
  • nobody remembered to bring olives, drat!
  • “Who is ready to sell their family for chocolate cake?”
  • Pablo and Sidney engage in a raw egg toss across the audience

Sidney back dives through a hoop higher than his head

[8:08 PM lights down, house announcements from Mishannock: “remember that flash kills acrobats!”]

  1. [8:10 PM] Opening sequence – “These are the Ingredients”
  2. [8:14 PM] “The Perfect Omelette”
  3. [8:18 PM] Juggling – Omelette Cumbia
  4. [8:23 PM] Storytelling
  5. [8:31 PM] Hoop-diving – “Leaving St. Louis”
  6. [8:35 PM] Fruit is not a Dessert
  7. [8:38 PM] Aerialsilks – Borscht; “The Departed”
  8. [8:42 PM] “Dinner for One”
  9. [8:44 PM] “Captain McCoy’s Ultimate Kitchen Set”
  10. [8:52 PM] “For the Love of Round Tables”
  11. [8:55 PM] Diabolo – Banana Bread – “Saved by Circus”
  12. [8:57 PM] Timers
  13. [9:00 PM] Acro-dance – “One Woman’s Life Recipe”
  14. [9:05 PM] Hand-to-hand – Pelmeni – “3:00 in the Morning”
  15. [9:10 PM] Acro-dance, group – “You’re the One That I Want”
  16. [9:21 PM] Chinese Pole – Sunday Pasta – “Song for my Father”
  17. [9:29 PM] Icarian games – “The Last Supper”
  18. [9:32 PM] Contortion
  19. [9:36 PM] Flour, “Chop Chop Miam Miam”
    [show ends 9:40 PM; bows and applause, then feeding the audience]

Pablo fights off kitchen threats

Performers

Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus

  • Sidney Iking Bateman: hoop-diving, diabolo, Icarian flyer, floor acrobatics;
  • Heloise Bourgeois: banquine flyer, Chinese pole, Icarian flyer;
  • Melvin Diggs: hoop-diving, banquine porter, Icarian porter, floor acrobatics;
  • Mishannock Ferrero: hand-to-hand porter, Icarian porter, banquine porter;
  • Anna Kachalova: hand-to-hand flyer,Icarian flyer, banquine flyer;
  • Anna Kichtchenko: aerial silk, contortion, Icarian flyer, accordion;
  • Gabriella Parigi: acro-dance;
  • Matias Plaul: Chinese pole, Icarian flyer, banquine porter, guitar, harmonica;
  • Pablo Pramparo: juggling, banquine porter, Icarian porter, acrodance, guitar.

Mishannock gives Anna Kachalova a hand to balance on

Production Credits

  • Shana Carroll: co-choreographer, co-director, co-writer;
  • Sébastien Soldevila: co-choreographer, co-director, co-writer;

Matias "stands" on the Chinese Pole

Notes

It's always fun to watch a circus – where else can you see such a range of expression of physical cleverness? Tonight's show might have been a bit long on story-telling and short on slap-stick, but variety is good! I don't think I'd previous attended any other show where the performers cooked food for the crowd during the show, then invited them to eat afterwards. Yum! Banana bread!

I think my favorite act this time around was the hoop-diving. Melvin and Sidney had amazingly good timing and great physical skills. Matias' Chinese Pole routine was also stunningly good, though enveloping it in the telling of his sad backstory was a bit of a distraction to me. Hard to say how I would have changed things; I guess my thought is that the story of his dad's disappearance was just a bit too sad to be part of a show of circus entertainment. Ting managed to take some pictures without killing any acrobats; I've scattered a few of my favorites here and there across the page.

Program Notes

Melvin suspends Anna Kichtchenko doing splits

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