The 7 Fingers - Traces

The 7 Fingers are exceptional performers who combine their high-level circus skills with an electric urban energy. Using such wide-ranged disciplines as traditional Chinese acrobatics, basketball, skateboarding, classical piano, dance, humor and illustration, these five acrobats jump from one skill to the next, interpreting each in surprising and innovative ways.

TRACES

The clock is ticking – a countdown towards an unknown fate. The performers are thrown onto the stage straight from a whirlwind catastrophe. The space has a junkyard feeling, props built from scraps of wood and spare parts. Live drawings project an ever-changing decor onto the backdrop via an old classroom overhead projector. A standard basketball is used as a dance partner; a “homemade” grand piano is played by every character; street skateboard is performed in the style of an old Hollywood musical… a swinging microphone captures each breath…
This is their shelter, their clubhouse. This is their safe haven where they can leave their final mark, their traces… on society, on their environment and, most significantly, on each other.