Past Event

Oct 05—17, 2021

Out of Order

The 7 Fingers / Canada

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“By the end of watching Out of Order, you’ll understand how incredibly necessary their work, and art, is. A bit like breathing.”

— Stir

Boston’s favorite modern circus troupe rises up by going underground.

A Boston fan favorite, The 7 Fingers are back with a theatrical film that plays with the notions of poverty, power, and pleasure.

A digital circus where contact is forbidden. Theatres are empty. Artists are forced into the underground. Ten gloved and masked characters from all walks of life come together, clinging to their pasts as acrobats the best they can. Out of Order shows a stark future where artists are forced to meet secretly in forsaken spaces.

Past productions by The 7 Fingers at ArtsEmerson include Passengers (2019/20), Reversible (2017/18), Cuisine & Confessions (2016/17), Traces (2014/15), Sequence 8 (2012/13), and PSY (2010/11 & 2011/12).

Info

Venue

Virtual Event
On Demand Streaming
OCT 05 @ 7:30PM ET –
OCT 17 @ 10PM ET

Dates

Oct 05, 2021 - Oct 17, 2021

Live Conversation

Tuesday, October 05 @ 7:30PM
Join us for the premiere, and live discussion featuring panelists Gypsy Snider, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The 7 Fingers, and David Howse, ArtsEmerson Executive Director, and it will be moderated by Kevin Becerra, ArtsEmerson Creative Producer.

Details

52 minutes

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All Ages

In French with English subtitles

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Please Note

Viewing of this video is available only to those in these six New England states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

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Artists

Company

The 7 Fingers

The 7 Fingers is an arts collective unlike any other. In 2002, the 7 founders set out to redefine circus by stripping down the spectacle to its thrilling essence.

The contemporary company tells stories using death-defying acrobatics with a life-affirming theatricality that is unique to The 7 Fingers. Since its inception, the company has expanded from its own signature touring shows to creating theatrical experiences as diverse as the very artistic directors themselves: original productions varying from intimate one-man shows to large-scale arena performances, Broadway musicals, artistic collaborations with renowned international artists and companies, production design and direction, special events, Olympic ceremonies, televised performances, fashion, art and music events, immersive experiences and much more.

Every one of these projects carries The 7 Fingers’ unequivocal mark. The company has consistently spread its horizons by mixing genres and exploring new ways to tell stories. Fascinated by the human condition, The 7 Fingers create performances that celebrate our world, our time and our humanity. Their shows tour the globe and bring audiences to their feet wherever they go.

In 2018, The 7 Fingers opened their very own Centre of Creation and Production. Situated in the heart of Montreal’s downtown theater district, the new centre houses all of the company’s activities, departments and dreams under one roof.

Co-Founder & Artistic Director

Gypsy Snider

Co-Founder

Isabelle Chassé

Gypsy Snider

Co-founding and artistic director of The 7 Fingers Gypsy Snider wrote, directed SisterS, Réversible, Intersection, Amuse, Un Dia, Traces, and Loft.

She has choreographed televised feature performances for America’s Got Talent, Her Majesty’s Royal Variety Performance, the illusionist Darcy Oake’s Edge of Reality, and several large-scale fashion shows for Bench in the Philippines.

In 2013, working with director Diane Paulus on a new vision of Pippin, she choreographed and wove circus into the revival of the Broadway musical. Gypsy’s work on Pippin earned her a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.

Gypsy began her circus career at the age of 4 when her parents founded The Pickle Family Circus. She grew up touring the West Coast with the company. In 2002, while in her home town of San Francisco she wrote and directed for The New Pickle Circus a show entitled Circumstance.

Gypsy wrote and directed Ships in the Night, a gender blending contemporary musical dance revue for Richard Branson’s new Virgin Voyages cruise line. 2020 televised EUFA Draft featured an 8-minute piece created and choreographed by Gypsy dedicated to the 12 participating cities of the season of European Football.

Gypsy is also a guest teacher and guest director at the National Circus School of Montreal. In 2015, she received the Evolving Circus Award in New York City presented by Diane Paulus. She was invited to speak at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC in 2017 on the evolution of Circus Arts in the United States.

Isabelle Chassé

A pivotal figure in Quebec’s circus history and a highly accomplished contemporary artist, Isabelle Chassé entered the National Circus School of Montreal as a child. She is among a group of core artists who contributed to the success of Cirque du Soleil. The recipient of numerous awards, including the gold medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain de Paris and at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, Isabelle toured internationally from a young age, performing hundreds of shows with an innovative and dynamic contortion quartet. As a young adult, she left a mark with her memorable performance on the aerial tissu in Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam. Isabelle has also participated in several film projects including the film Martyrs and the Grammy-nominated short film Satie and Suzanne.

A co-founder of The 7 Fingers, Isabelle co-directed and performed in Loft, La Vie, and Temporel. She also co-directed En Panne, Vice & Vertu and the third segment of Tryptique. She served as assistant director on Passengers, Reversible, Un Dia, Amuse, and Psy, and was a collaborating artist in the Fibonacci Project on multiple occasions. Isabelle has been a jury member with several organisations, among them the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She played a major role in the establishment of The 7 Fingers’ Creation and Production Centre, sitting on various decision-making committees.

Isabelle staged Cubes au Carré for the City of Montreal and co-directed the acrobatic performances in Dominic Champagne’s production of Moby Dick. A fully fledged circus artist at a stage of deep creative maturity, she worked on the conception and staging of Moment Factory’s Soul of the Ocean, a permanent show at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park.

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Photo Credit: 7 Fingers

Buzz

“Les 7 Doigts at its most surreal and gritty.”

— Stir

“The 7 Fingers was founded in 2002 with the mission of bringing circus to a human scale, combining circus acts with emotion and intimacy to win over the audience is a tenet of the new circus movement that started in the countercultural departure from the stunt for stunt’s sake philosophy of traditional three ring circuses.”

— The New York Times

“At times dark and somber, at others exuberant and joyful, Out Of Order offers you a seat you’ve never had before, at a circus the likes of which you’ve never seen before. It’s an intoxicating marriage of circus, theatre and film.”

— Jo Ledingham

October 7, 2021

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Our friends, The 7 Fingers, are back with a brand new film, Out of Order, taking audiences into the a new world where acrobatics are forbidden. Join the conversations and...