The 7 Fingers' Shana Carroll on Jumping Through Hoops & Hanging From the Rafters To Make the Tastiest Banana Bread - CircusTalk

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The 7 Fingers’ Shana Carroll on Jumping Through Hoops & Hanging From the Rafters To Make the Tastiest Banana Bread

Better Lemons’ Gil Kaan interviews Shana Carroll about her latest creation “CUISINE & CONFESSIONS.”

Montreal-based Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The 7 Fingers) will be appearing at the Eli & Edythe Broad Stage February 16 through 18 with their latest creation CUISINE & CONFESSIONS. Better-Lemons and I had the opportunity to chat with Shana Carroll, the co-founding artistic director of The 7 Fingers. We touched on The 7 Fingers’ beginnings from Cirque du Soleil, some of her and her husband SĂ©bastien Soldevila’s most memorable creative moments, and, of course, CUISINE & CONFESSIONS. 

What inspired you to create CUISINE & CONFESSIONS?

My husband and I co-created the show. Prior to creation, we were in our own kitchen, brainstorming on possible themes for the show. He was cooking as we were speaking — he is incredibly passionate about food, cooking — so I looked at him and said, “What if we do a cooking show?” We laughed, wondered if that was even possible, to cook on stage, to combine circus and cooking. I remembered a book my grandmother wrote calledYoung and Hungry. It was a memoir and a cookbook, marrying recipes from her childhood with accompanying anecdotes. I thought this could be an interesting approach for our show. So often, our shows have these strong autobiographical angles, as it’s a big part of the vision of our company to humanize the acrobatics, to ensure the audience really gets to know the performers and care about them. So, we thought of this notion of food memories: combining confession-like moments of storytelling, both physical and verbal, with childhood recipes.

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