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Fascination


At a Glance

Creative Team

Expérience

Les Chaises
Contortion
Fil de Fer
Trapeze Solo
Korean Plank
Hand to Hand
Trapeze Volant
Flying Man
Gymnastics
Bicycles

Odyssey

Itinéraire




 

Experience
  • Les Chaises (The Chairs):
    From Le Cirque Réinventé. Cai Qiming, Gong Zengli, Huang Le, Liu Yunlong, Liu Yong, Meng Shan, Sha Yan, Liu Yuntao, Yao Jingmei.

  • Contortion:
    From Nouvelle Expérience. The four nimble girls from Nouvelle Expérience are joined by 2 others making the performance six strong: Katia Arnaoutova, Nadine Louis- Binette, Isabelle Chassé, Julie Choquette, Jinny Jacinto, and Laurence Racine.

  • Fil de Fer:
    From Nouvelle Expérience. Now here's an interesting collaboration between shows! Ayin De Sela and Nicky Dewhurst play with Brian Dewhurst, our Chef de Piste. But what is more exciting is that Sally Dewhurst (His Wife) also gets in on the act completing the family circle.

  • Trapèze Solo:
    From Nouvelle Expérience. Performed by Rebecca Perez.

  • Korean Plank (Penguins):
    From Le Cirque Réinventé. Those wacky, waddling penguins are at it again! They are: Bogdan Zajac, André St-Jean, Eligiusz Skoczylas, Marie-Andrée Richard, Zdzislaw Pelka, Ryszard Ostrowski, David Lebel, Francois Ducharme, Oleg Kantemirov, Stacey Bilodeau, and Bruce Bilodeau.

  • Hand to Hand:
    From Le Cirque Réinventé. Amélie Demay and Eric Varelas, two veteran Cirque performers.

  • Trapèze Volant (Flying Trapeze):
    From Nouvelle Expérience. Didier Antoine, Cécile Ardail, Tatiana Arnaoutova-Lissovtseva, Alexandre Arnaoutov, Lionel Hassin, Philippe Chartrand, Amélie Major, and Jean-Francois Rogemont.

  • Flying Man:
    From Nouvelle Expérience. Performed by Dimitri Arnaoutov.

  • Rhythmic Gymnastics:
    An interesting new addition that would later be featured in some form in Saltimbanco, performed by six excitingly energetic young ladies: Vessela Ianakieva, Filipa Filipova, Albena Loukanova, Kristina Pavlova, Lana Sotirova, and Elena Zaharieva.

  • Bicycles:
    From Le Cirque Réinventé. Irna Arnaoutova, Caroline Franc, Luc Tremblay, Barbara Gosselin, and Chris Lashua.

And, in-between, through and sometimes those who would get in the way of acts are the clowns. Fascination had a handful of them, and they were just as colorful as the rest of the performers (colorful in more ways than one).

The Chef de Piste, or Ring Master, was a whimsical character torn between the themes of the shows that make up Fascination. He is costumed as he would appear in Le Cirque Réinventé (in blue with a hat), but played by Brian Dewhurst, the right-hand man of Madame Corporation in Nouvelle Expérience, instead of Michael Barette. Even so, he takes part in the Fil de Fer performance with his son like before, with his wife adding an even higher comedic value to the show.

There were others to add comedic value to Fascination, mostly the 4 characters/clowns wandering about from time to time. Francois Dupuis, a large but energetic baby. Fans know him best from Mystère. There was also Balthazar, just kind of hanging around. Fans know him best from La Nouba (He also appeared in Le Cirque Réinventé). Two other clowns/characters appeared in the show as well. They are known as Miss Steak (a vivacious woman with one mission - to wear outrageous clothes). Her companion, Daniel Le Bateleur, was a normal enough man with a fetish for bugs (He even appeared on stage as a big red tick or flea!)