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DANCE / CIRCUS CANADA TRIPTYQUE LES 7 DOIGTS DE LA MAIN M T W T OCTOBER 06 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 F 07 14 21 S 08 15 22 S 09 16 23 THU — SAT 7.30PM SAT also 2PM / SUN 3PM 1 hr 30 mins, with interval A Reserve $89 / $79 B Reserve $79 / $69 Students $25 Transaction fees may apply www.festival.melbourne Arts Centre Melbourne 1300 182 183 “A fusion of genres… poetic, beautiful, funny.” ~ RADIO–CANADA “Triptyque turns dance upside down.” ~ MONTREAL GAZETTE AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE PLAYHOUSE “Originality, homogeneity, poetry, magic.” ~ LA PRESSE Creator and Director SAMUEL TÉTREAULT Invited Choreographers MARIE CHOUINARD, VICTOR QUIJADA & MARCOS MORAU Canada’s Les 7 Doigts (The 7 Fingers) straddle the gap between circus and dance to take you where neither can alone. Now, for the first time in the company’s history, a trio of outside choreographers from the top of the dance world have been invited to reimagine the collision of these forms. These keen-eyed and daring dancemakers refuse to be limited by the constraints of the typical human body and deploy the rare strength and gracefulness of their performers to otherworldly effect. The vocabulary of dance is expanded, while circus itself is transformed. Sponsored by With support from #melbfest By turns playful and melancholic, sensual and surreal, the three works assembled for Triptyque open portals into bedrooms and hospital wards, urban jungles and dreamscapes, and in each gravity is more of a suggestion than a fact. // 41