Departure vs. transit vs. arrival. Chance vs. choice vs. destiny.  Stillness vs. acceleration. Reflection vs. transparency. Familiar vs.  foreign. Private vs. public. Confinement vs. border-crossing. Bright  headlights vs. tunnel-darkness. Past vs. future…
 

Our fascination  with trains is both a nostalgic one — dreams of another era, another  land — and a symbolic one: life happens along this track of sorts,  twisting and turning through valleys and plains. We speed through lands  all the while staring out the window, at the reflection of our very own  eyes superimposed upon the shifting landscape. Tearful goodbyes,  anticipatory reunions. Fateful encounters inside the cabin. A community  of strangers with one thing in common: we all have somewhere to go. Our  reasons for leaving may differ but we are joined in a moment of  suspended limbo between two lives, as we say goodbye to one and prepare  for another.

Source: 7 fingers

More information: https://7fingers.com

As co-founding artistic director of The 7 Fingers, Shana Carroll directed and/or co-directed Passagers, Cuisine & Confessions, Séquence 8, Traces, Psy, Loft, La Vie, Le Murmure du Coquelicot, and FeriAmuse. Through 7 Fingers collaborations and special projets, she created the show within the Queen of the Night experience at the Diamond Horseshoe in New York City and co-designed the first segment of the Sochi Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Shana has also frequently collaborated with Cirque du Soleil, most recently as co-director of their first show on ice Crystal, and previously as acrobatic designer and choreographer of Paramour (Broadway) and Iris (Los Angeles), and as director-choreographer of their performance at the 2012 Academy Awards.

Shana is well known for her acrobatic and circus choreography. She choreographed four gold medal-winning numbers at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris. Shana has received Best Choreography nominations at the Drama Desk Awards (Traces) and the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards (Circumstance).

She is currently directing and choreographing Duel Reality, an immersive circus show based on Romeo and Juliet for Richard Branson’s new Virgin Voyages Cruiseline.

Originally from Berkeley, California, Shana began her career as a trapeze artist with San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus and went on to a 20-year career in the air with Cirque du Soleil and many others before founding The 7 Fingers.

Source: 7 fingers

More information: https://7fingers.com

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr

Collective members: Isabelle Chassé, Shana Carroll, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider, Sébastien Soldevila et Samuel Tétreault

Creation: 2002

The name of the company is a play on words that illustrates the unity of its members: Isabelle Chassé, Shana Carroll, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider, Sébastien Soldevila and Samuel Tétreault founded Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 fingers of the hand) where they combine their distinct talents and experiences and work towards common artistic goals.

When first formed in 2002, each of the founding members had nearly 15 years of performance experience under their belts. Drawing from their decades on the world’s most prestigious stages and circus rings, these friends and colleagues now shared a desire to break the mould, to offer a brand new form of circus performance: a sort of “circus at human scale”, seeped in intimacy and familiarity, that brought the empowerment of the extraordinary through the proximity of the ordinary, with very real human beings who breathed and danced and spoke from the heart.

From this, the urge to redefine the circus medium has continued to drive each of their creations to newer, more hybrid and collaborative territories. Perpetually blurring the lines between contemporary dance and acrobatics, between theatre and athleticism, between interactive multi-media and immersive experience, they strive towards the undefinable, uncategorizable, visceral, breathtaking and touchingly human.

Source:  Les 7 doigts de la main 's website

More information : 7doigts.com