Shana Carroll
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| Shana Carroll | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| 💼 Occupation | director and choreographer |
| Known for | The 7 Fingers, Pickle Family Circus, Cirque de Soliel |
Shana Carroll (born 1970) is a director, choreographer, and former acrobat. She co-founded The 7 Fingers, an artist collective, and choreographed many of their shows. Her current project is Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story at Club Fugazi
Early life and education[edit]
Shana grew up in the Bay Area with her father, then San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll and mother, photographer author Tracy Johnston.
At eighteen, she volunteered and learned trapeze at the Pickle Family Circus and at 21, moved to Montreal to study at the Circuit School Montreal, followed by a circus school in France.
Career[edit]
In 1994, she joined Cirque du Soleil in 1994 and was their trapeze artist for seven years, studying performing and teaching with other circuses as well. With colleagues including Gypsy Snider, she co-founded The 7 Fingers, an artist collective,continuing to perform for five years while moving into choreography and directing.[1]. The 7 Fingers first performed at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.[2]
Credits[edit]
Dear San Francisco (2021-)[edit]
Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story (directed by Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider, costumes by Keiko Carreiro) opened in September 20201 at Club Fugazi in San Francisco. Meant to convey the history of the city of San Francisco including the Gold Rush, the 1906 earthquake, Beat Poetry and more recent immigrants, gay and nontraditional cultures, in the medium of letters from celebrities, the Bay Area public and attendees at the shows. The circus disciplines include hoop diving, Chinese pole, Korean plank, hand-balancing, diablo, juggling, and “hand-to-trap”.
Passagers (2018)[edit]
Passagers gathered six artists from all around the world, and accompanied by original musical compositions. [3] on November 14, 2018.
Temporel (2018, 2021)[edit]
Temporel is a multidisciplinary show combining the universe of The 7 Fingers and the company Lemieux Pilon 4D Art, conceived and directed by Patrick Léonard, Isabelle Chassé, Michel Lemieux et Victor Pilon, choreography by Shana Carroll.[4]
Cuisine & Confessions (2014–2017)[edit]
Cuisine & Confessions brought live cooking directly on stage.
Crystal (Cirque du Soleil) (2017 – ...)[edit]
Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila (The 7 Fingers) directed Crystal (Cirque du Soleil)
Paramour (Cirque du Soleil)) (2016–2017)[edit]
Shana Carroll (The 7 Fingers) was the director of acrobatic creation and choreographer for this Cirque du Soleil production.
Iris (Cirque du Soleil)[edit]
performance design
Séquence 8 (2012–2015)[edit]
Coproduced by the Nuits de Fourvière Festival (Lyon) and the Tohu, la Cité des arts du cirque (Montreal), Séquence 8 was performed for the first time at the Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival in 2012 and went on to be performed nearly 400 more times, reaching 300,000 spectators in 17 countries.
Psy (2009–2013)[edit]
Directed by Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila, the show was performed 300 times between 2009 and 2013.
References[edit]
- ↑ Hilario, Arturo (2021-09-10). "Q&A with Shana Carroll: Trapeze, History, and the Beauty of a Foggy City". El Observador. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ Pincus-Roth, Zachary (February 9, 2011). "A Circus That Lets Its Freak Flag Fly". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 2, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Passagers – Les 7 Doigts". latohu.ca/fr (in français).
- ↑ "Temporel 2018". 4dart.com (in français).
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