7 Facts about The 7 Fingers
Canadian contemporary circus trailblazers, The 7 Fingers bring their hit show Passagers (Passengers) to Brighton Dome on Thu 30 Sep and Fri 1 Oct 2021.
Presented by Dance Consortium, the show is a thrilling mix of circus skills, contemporary dance, and live musical score. Exploring our fascination with travel, it will transport audiences to another world, where a colourful and diverse group of strangers meet on board a train. Through the course of their journey, they share their stories through virtuoso acrobatics - vaulting somersaults, breath-taking trapeze, daredevil balances on the highwire, blended with dance, narrative and song.
Ahead of their visit to Brighton, find out more about the talented troop with our 7 facts about The 7 Fingers…
- The 7 Fingers was founded in 2002 by seven circus artists from the world-renowned Cirque de Soleil. Their mission was nothing less than reinventing the artform.
- They specialise in swinging and static trapeze, clowning, hand-to-hand, aerial chains, aerial silk contortion, knife-juggling, diabolo, hand-balancing as well as theatre, singing and contemporary dance.
- They’ve performed on America’s Got Talent, at three Olympic Games, the Oscars, the Royal Variety Performance and the launch of UEFA Euro 2020.
- The nine performers in Passagers hail from four different continents and four different countries – Argentina, Canada, France and South Africa.
- Between them, the performers will spend 63 hours a day training in the run up to a tour.
- The 7 Fingers used their time during lockdown to make their first film.
- Over the past 19 years, The 7 Fingers have performed to 7 million people in 936 theatres, in 672 cities in 54 countries. Brighton Dome will become the 940th theatre!
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