Les 7 doigts de la main

Collective members: Isabelle Chassé, Shana Carroll, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider, Sébastien Soldevila et Samuel Tétreault

Creation: 2002

The name of the company is a play on words that illustrates the unity of its members: Isabelle Chassé, Shana Carroll, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider, Sébastien Soldevila and Samuel Tétreault founded Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 fingers of the hand) where they combine their distinct talents and experiences and work towards common artistic goals.

When first formed in 2002, each of the founding members had nearly 15 years of performance experience under their belts. Drawing from their decades on the world’s most prestigious stages and circus rings, these friends and colleagues now shared a desire to break the mould, to offer a brand new form of circus performance: a sort of “circus at human scale”, seeped in intimacy and familiarity, that brought the empowerment of the extraordinary through the proximity of the ordinary, with very real human beings who breathed and danced and spoke from the heart.

From this, the urge to redefine the circus medium has continued to drive each of their creations to newer, more hybrid and collaborative territories. Perpetually blurring the lines between contemporary dance and acrobatics, between theatre and athleticism, between interactive multi-media and immersive experience, they strive towards the undefinable, uncategorizable, visceral, breathtaking and touchingly human.

Source:  Les 7 doigts de la main ‘s website

More information : 7doigts.com