First show to really tour internationally, Excentricus has wowed audiences the world over from 1997 to 2002,. An ingenious blend of performing arts, the show owes its success to four things: its heart, warmth, talent and generosity. Don't expect the standard circus fare. Instead, 17 performers (acrobats, clowns, jugglers, trapeze artists and musicians) team up to weave a rich and subtle web of emotions.

Acclaimed by critics and the general public alike, Excentricus has been staged over 500 times in such prestigious international performing-arts festivals as the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, the Hong Kong Festival, the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá in Colombia, the Recklinghausen Festival in Germany, the Bergen Festival in Norway and, more recently, at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. The show has also been presented on France's National Stages and across the United States through the Performing Arts Center network.

Word from the Director

The troupe consists of seventeen artists in all, each with their unique way of taking to the stage, captivating the audience, flying high, hitting all the right notes and attaining weightlessness.

The circus routines are an extension of each performer's personal expression, springboards from which characters, emotions, theatrical journeys and simple glances all reveal themselves.

Encounters between the characters create both the dramatic situations and the rhythm of the entire show. Their interplay adds vibrant colour to their skills, enhancing these so that contact with the audience becomes the human interaction on which the characters thrive rather than simply their technique.

Humour plays an important role in the show, poking fun at trivial conflicts, affording an affectionate look at awkward moments and laughing at our foibles in a demonstration of human tenderness.

Christine Rossignol
Director

NOMINATIONS :

2002 Prix GÉMEAUX :

• nomination in the Meilleure direction photographique : variétés, humour, sitcom ou arts de la scène (Ronald Plante)
• Meilleur montage : variétés, humour, sitcom ou arts de la scène (Vidal Béïque )
• Meilleure émission ou série des arts de la scène ou documentaire des arts (Anne-Marie Hétu, Philippe Dussault, Jacques Payette) catégories.