We at CircusTalk are grateful for each and every one of our members. From discipline to background, the CircusTalk community is home to a wide array of circus professionals and we want to celebrate you! We introduce to you the CircusTalk PRO Member Showcase, a series dedicated to shining the spotlight on our unique PRO members. Without further ado, we present…
Sarah Louis-Jean – Contemporary Boleadoras Dancer
She performs a specialized form of boleadoras that includes circus manipulation, acrobatics, cabaret elements, and modernized clothes and music. Her style is non traditional, and she adds her own personal elements to the dance. Sarah Louis-Jean has performed with companies like Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Eloize, and 7 doigts de la main as both an artistic director and an acrobat. Louis-Jean is also a singer and actress.
We asked Sarah Louis-Jean what her favorite part of boleadoras is, and how she expresses herself on stage. She responded:
“My favourite part is that it is very percutant. It allows me to be very powerful and express this by twirling my ropes in ways that are quick and bring dangerousness. I like the vibe that it gives, I feel I have to give my 300% and it is liberating as I give everything I have in my soul on stage. It’s everything I have at every single show. I also love that it’s a mix of a lot of aspects I love about performing arts: manipulation, percussion, dance and circus all in one act. Percussions is a total artform that is not easy to learn, a sense of rhythm is not given to everyone and mixing that with the way I move along with manipulation is a nice challenge and takes a long time to do. Even it’s an not very known artform, I am very happy to have discovered it, and it allows me to communication with the audience, as I always make sure they react when I am on stage, I go search something inside of them so that they have to be scared, or they have to express something even as watching me perform. And that is a way for me to let them know they have inner power too.”
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This post was last modified on April 22, 2024 8:20 pm