It was the day before the dress rehearsal of our show Limb(e)s in Montreal’s La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines venue. The performance was programmed as part of the Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival, and this was also going to be our first time running the entire work in “show conditions.” We were simultaneously excited to premiere, and feeling the increasing pressure of having only the two of us as the entire production team. The last premiere we had experienced was with Cirque Du Soleil who had an incredible team making sure we had all our needs met, and problem-solving non-stop in the months leading up. We were managing our expectations of ourselves at the end of a tech rehearsal when the director of the theater came in to inform us that he would open the house to industry VIPs for tomorrow’s dress rehearsal… the pressure just quadrupled.

A scene from Limb(e)s, by Ci Co Over my career, I have been incredibly fortunate to have been a part of numerous creative projects. Among these, I participated as an artist in the creation of Cirque du Soleil’s TORUK – The First Flight, and as an artist and choreographer in Limb(e)s, ...