Circus Center Brings U.S. Premiere of 7 fingers to San Francisco This Holiday Season

This extraordinary show runs from December 17, 2003 to January 3, 2004 at the Historic Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

San Francisco, CA -- October 17, 2003 -- This holiday season, Circus Center San Francisco invites you to a joyful, surrealistic universe filled with awe-inspiring aerialists, the startling precision of amazing jugglers, the breathtaking exploits of graceful acrobats, and the wit and humor of seven young international circus performers.

Circus Center San Francisco, home of the New Pickle Circus, presents the U.S. premiere of 7 fingers, a new and innovative show created and performed by the Canadian new circus" company, Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers of the Hand).

7 fingers was recently voted the surprise hit of last years Just For Laughs" festival in Montreal, Quebec. The show has also performed in Europe, Mexico, and Japan, all to standing ovations. For its U.S. premiere, here in San Francisco, this exhilarating new production will have a limited engagement of 15 performances only at San Franciscos historic Palace of Fine Arts Theater from December 17, 2003 through January 3, 2004. Ticket prices range from $20 to $30, with discounts for students, seniors, and groups.

The seven fingers", four women and three men who inhabit an imaginary loft, find amusement in objects as diverse as apples and knives, bathtubs and shoes, entertaining each other - and, indeed, the audience - with acrobatics, juggling, clowning, aerial acts, poetry and song, all performed with gusto and amazing artistry. As in life, the mood changes from intensely romantic to chaotically anarchic.

After years of performing in the worlds finest circuses, cabarets, and variety theaters, Shana Carroll (a San Francisco native), Isabelle Chassé, Patrick Léonard, Faon Shane, Gypsy Snider (also a San Francisco native), Sébastien Soldevilla, and Samuel Tétreault - these seven young circus artists, actors, dancers, singers, musicians, directors, writers and choreographers have pooled their multiple talents and experiences to form a company true to their ideals of communal creation - and have born a show true to their vision of circus that is more intimate and human.

The latest newcomer on the thriving new circus" international scene, 7 fingers integrates dance, theater, music, comedy and even video with world-class circus acts, in what Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle calls, a wild triumph... a total raving, loony, madcap, overwhelming success."

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About Circus Center San Francisco
Circus Center San Francisco, a non-profit circus organization that encompasses the San Francisco School of Circus Arts, The Clown Conservatory (the only professional clown-training program in the country), the New Pickle Circus, and the San Francisco Youth Circus, embodies the rich, full history of new circus" in the United States. Circus Center San Francisco has built its reputation by delivering top quality, circus-oriented entertainment, such as the New Pickle Circus production of Circumstance last season at the Cowell Theater and training world-class circus performers. Circus Center San Francisco is the exclusive U.S. producer for 7 fingers. For more information, please visit: www.circuscenter.org.

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