"Les 7 doigts de la main translates literally as "the 7 fingers of the hand". It is a twist on a French idiom ("the five fingers of the hand") used to describe distinct, individual parts united tightly, moving in coordination towards one common goal. Here it refers to the 7 directors/ founding members of the company who, by combining their very distinct personalities, talents and experiences, work towards their common artistic goals, functioning with all the dexterity and beautifully awkward coordination of an unconventional and unlikely 7-fingered hand.
The 7 Fingers was founded in Montreal in 2002 by seven seasoned circus performers. Friends who had worked together in such prestigious companies as the Cirque du Soleil, the Cirque Eloize, Wintergarten Variety, Teatro Zinzanni, the Pickle Family Circus and Cirque Knie, or trained together at Montreal’s National Circus School, they decided it was time to offer something new to the circus arts scene, to create a circus of an entirely different flavor".More about it? click here
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