# Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, February 11, 2017

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2016-17/theater/7-fingers-cuisine-and-confessions.php) presents _Cuisine and Confessions_ featuring [Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus](http://7doigts.com/en/)  
[Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Saturday, February 11, 2017

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{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2018-39.jpg?300|Pablo juggles kitchen whisks}}

## One Set

[7:46 PM; we find our seats; the pre-show entertainment is in full swing!]

* Clowning around and playing games with the crowd
* the set looks a lot like an Ikea kitchen
* Sidney tosses lemons into the the audience -- playing catch -- but squirts them with a water bottle if they drop the lemon or make a bad throw
* Pablo gives lessons (in the crowd) in one-handed egg-cracking
* nobody remembered to bring olives, drat!
* "Who is ready to sell their family for chocolate cake?"
* Pablo and Sidney engage in a raw egg toss across the audience

{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2030-52.jpg?300|Sidney back dives through a hoop higher than his head}}

[8:08 PM lights down, house announcements from Mishannock: "remember that flash kills acrobats!"]

01. [8:10 PM] Opening sequence – “These are the Ingredients”
02. [8:14 PM] “The Perfect Omelette”
03. [8:18 PM] Juggling – Omelette Cumbia
04. [8:23 PM] Storytelling
05. [8:31 PM] Hoop-diving – “Leaving St. Louis”
06. [8:35 PM] Fruit is not a Dessert
07. [8:38 PM] Aerialsilks – Borscht; “The Departed”
08. [8:42 PM] “Dinner for One”
09. [8:44 PM] “Captain McCoy’s Ultimate Kitchen Set”
10. [8:52 PM] “For the Love of Round Tables”
11. [8:55 PM] Diabolo – Banana Bread – “Saved by Circus”
12. [8:57 PM] Timers
13. [9:00 PM] Acro-dance – “One Woman’s Life Recipe”
14. [9:05 PM] Hand-to-hand – Pelmeni – “3:00 in the Morning”
15. [9:10 PM] Acro-dance, group – “You’re the One That I Want”
16. [9:21 PM] Chinese Pole – Sunday Pasta – “Song for my Father”
17. [9:29 PM] Icarian games – “The Last Supper”
18. [9:32 PM] Contortion
19. [9:36 PM] Flour, “Chop Chop Miam Miam”  
[show ends 9:40 PM; bows and applause, then feeding the audience]

{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2046-48.jpg?300|Pablo fights off kitchen threats}}

## Performers

[Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus](http://7doigts.com/en/)

* Sidney Iking Bateman: hoop-diving, diabolo, Icarian flyer, floor
acrobatics;
* Heloise Bourgeois: banquine flyer, Chinese pole, Icarian flyer;
* Melvin Diggs: hoop-diving, banquine porter, Icarian porter, floor acrobatics;
* Mishannock Ferrero: hand-to-hand porter, Icarian porter, banquine
porter;
* Anna Kachalova: hand-to-hand flyer,Icarian flyer, banquine flyer;
* Anna Kichtchenko: aerial silk, contortion, Icarian flyer, accordion;
* Gabriella Parigi: acro-dance;
* Matias Plaul: Chinese pole, Icarian flyer, banquine porter, guitar, harmonica;
* Pablo Pramparo: juggling, banquine porter, Icarian porter, acrodance, guitar.

{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2112-42.jpg?300|Mishannock gives Anna Kachalova a hand to balance on}}

### Production Credits

* Shana Carroll: co-choreographer, co-director, co-writer;
* Sébastien Soldevila: co-choreographer, co-director, co-writer;

{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2126-33.jpg?300|Matias "stands" on the Chinese Pole}}

## Notes

It's always fun to watch a circus -- where else can you see such a range of expression of physical cleverness? Tonight's show might have been a bit long on story-telling and short on slap-stick, but variety is good! I don't think I'd previous attended any other show where the performers cooked food for the crowd during the show, then invited them to eat afterwards. Yum! Banana bread!

I think my favorite act this time around was the hoop-diving. Melvin and Sidney had amazingly good timing and great physical skills. Matias' Chinese Pole routine was also stunningly good, though enveloping it in the telling of his sad backstory was a bit of a distraction to me. Hard to say how I would have changed things; I guess my thought is that the story of his dad's disappearance was just a bit too sad to be part of a show of circus entertainment. Ting managed to take some pictures without killing any acrobats; I've scattered a few of my favorites here and there across the page.

[Program Notes](http://calperformances.org/learn/program_notes/2016-17/pn_7-Fingers.pdf)

{{:2017:2017-02:20170211-2132-18.jpg?300|Melvin suspends Anna Kichtchenko doing splits}}

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