UK Tour Of TRACES By Les 7 Doigts De La Main

Following a hugely successful season at The Peacock Theatre in Spring 2009, Les 7 Doigts de la Main will tour their hugely acclaimed production TRACES in the UK in February and March 2010.

Performed by five young French-Canadian artists who demonstrate startling acrobatic brilliance, TRACES features dazzling displays of gravity-defying skill. Whether balancing casually on each other's heads, tumbling through hoops or leaping spectacularly up giant poles without using their hands, the cast of four men and one woman soar through the show.

The tour will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Bradford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leicester, Wimbledon, Hull, Coventry, Salford, Woking, Cardiff, Southampton, Sheffield and Brighton. These dates follow the company's debut appearance on the 2009 Royal Variety Performance on Wednesday 16th December, on which they will perform a specially devised extract from TRACES.

More than just a series of tricks however, TRACES pioneers a new brand of circus with a striking human element. Set in a makeshift bunker, five characters hide from an impending disaster outside the door. Using creation as their only antidote to the destruction outside, the cast use every mode of expression available to them, hoping to put down a last mark and leave their traces as best they can. Video, narration and music combine to show snippets of the performers' real lives, gradually drawing the audience into their stories, as seemingly impossible acts take on a startlingly human nature. Set to a pumping soundtrack ranging from rock ‘n' roll to blues to hip hop, TRACES mixes raw, classic acrobatics with theatre, skateboarding, street and contemporary dance styles.

The company features a hugely accomplished group of five performers whose skills have been perfected in circus schools and companies all over the world.

Les 7 Doigts de la Main was founded in Montreal in 2002 by seven seasoned circus performers with a goal to create circus shows with a strong human element. Traces was created in 2006 and is the company's second production. It was performed in Melbourne as part of The Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in summer 2006 and has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards in New York.

Tour details

 

February 1st and 2nd

EDINBURGH, Festival Theatre

www.eft.co.uk

Box Office 0131 529 6000

 

February 4th, 5th and 6th

GLASGOW, Theatre Royal

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/Theatre-Royal-Glasgow

Ticket Office 0844 871 7647

 

February 8th, 9th and 10th

MILTON KEYNES THEATRE

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/Milton-Keynes-Theatre

Ticket office 0844 871 7652

 

February 11th, 12th and 13th

BRADFORD, Alhambra Theatre

www.bradford-theatres.co.uk

Box Office 01274 432 000

 

February 15th, 16th and 17th

BIRMINGHAM, Hippodrome

www.birminghamhippodrome.com

Box Office 0844 338 5000

 

February 18th, 19th and 20th

LIVERPOOL, Empire Theatre

www.liverpoolempire.org.uk

Box Office 0844 847 2525

 

February 22nd, 23rd and 24th

LEICESTER, The Curve

www.curveonline.co.uk

Box Office 0116 242 3595

 

February 25th, 26th and 27th

WIMBLEDON, New Wimbledon Theatre

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre

Box Office 0844 871 7646

 

March 1st, 2nd and 3rd

HULL, New Theatre

http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/hullnewtheatre

Box Office 01482 226 655

 

March 4th, 5th and 6th

COVENTRY, Belgrade Theatre

http://www.belgrade.co.uk/

Box Office 024 7655 3055

 

March 8th, 9th and 10th

SALFORD, The Lowry

www.thelowry.com

Box Office 0870 787 5796

 

March 11th, 12th and 13th

WOKING, New Victoria

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/woking

Box Office 0844 871 7645

 

March 15th, 16th and 17th

CARDIFF, Wales Millenium Centre

www.wmc.org.uk

Box Office 0870 040 2000

 

March 18th, 19th and 20th

SOUTHAMPTON, Mayflower

http://www.mayflower.org.uk/

Box Office 02380 711 811

 

March 25th, 26th & 27th

BRIGHTON, Theatre Royal

http://www.ambassadortickets.com/brighton

Box Office

0844 871 7627

 

 

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