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- 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!)
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