You’ll find them in the Quartier des spectacles, in Place Ville Marie and near the Atwater market: three steel giants nearly 16 meters tall will be set up this summer in Montreal to host festival performances. Montreal full circusorganized by TOHU.
From July 7 to 17, dozens of acrobats from Cirque Éloize, the collective Les 7 Doigts and Machine de Cirque will take on these large structures for the show’s high-flying performance. 3Ggiers.
Free performances are scheduled at all three venues every night at 6:00 pm and 9:30 pm, except Mondays. Each circus company will offer a unique show based on its artistic specialties.
Celebrate a new season
The young Québec company Machine de Cirque, to be set in Parc Vinet, is pleased to display its art in a public space.
How do you become a giant? It is around this question that we have navigated for our creation: wanting to find the state of greatness, of elevation [collective]explained Maxime Laurin, co-founder of Machine de Cirque.
” We want to be happy, we want to celebrate this new season “
The Les 7 Doigts collective shared the desire to celebrate together. You don’t become a giant aloneabundant with co-founder Patrick Léonard.
It will be fun for everyone. We feel it, these days, the shows leave, the world is happy to see each other.
Another sign of this new era : a great collaboration between different companies on the concept of this triple show, unheard of in the Montreal circus world, according to Cirque Éloize founder Jeannot Painchaud.
This, he said, is a legacy of the pandemic that has hit the performing arts community hard.
We shared a lot of things, even on a creative level, to make sure we were going in a different and complementary direction. This is very exciting as a process.
Liven up downtown Montreal
The purpose of the show 3Ggiersaccording to the montreal absolute circus, is to contribute to the revitalization of the city center by promoting the convergence of tourists and circus enthusiasts towards public spaces and businesses in the metropolis.
We wanted the circus to perform here, proving that Montreal is an international capital of circus art.said General Manager Nadine Marchand.
The show 3Ggiers is an original idea by Michel Laprise. The three steel colossi were built by Scène Éthique, who worked for Robert Lepage, Céline Dion and Cirque du Soleil, among others.
This text was written from interviews conducted by Catherine Richer, cultural reporter on the show At 15-18. Comments can be edited for clarity and brevity.
Source: Radio-Canada
