from: New York Times
It’s turning out to be quite a summer for French-Canadian, hoop-diving, animal-free circus ensembles in New York City.
Cirque du Soleil recently opened its latest extravaganza, “Zarkana,” at Radio City Music Hall with a cast of 75 acrobats and performers. As a more downtown alternative, the seven cast members of the Montreal group 7 Fingers are bringing their own mix of acrobatics, music and dance to town with the show "Traces"
A fusion of circus and street performance, “Traces” is to begin a 10-week run starting July 29 at the Union Square Theater (where the comedy “Desperate Writers” recently closed). The show returns to New York after a run at the New Victory Theater in 2008; it recently had productions in Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago. The company’s cabaret-themed show “La Vie” was performed in New York in 2007.
7 Fingers (or Les 7 Doigts de la Main in French, translated as “The Seven Fingers of the Hand”) is currently collaborating with the producer Barry Weissler (“Chicago”) and the director Diane Paulus (“Hair”) on a revival of “Pippin,” in which the chorus is a circus troupe.
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