MTL Clown Festival: NO ELEPHANT SHOW + BIANCA MASE

Montreal Clown Festival

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NO ELEPHANT SHOW
A clown's adventure to oneself

All the elephants are gone,
the tigers, trapeze and the tent
The ringmaster signals no applause,
The dancing bears are wholly spent.

The tears that tore the curtain down,
The sweat and sawdust blown away.
The calliope that summoned crowds
It's final blast has left the fray.

Along the lonely roads are heard
But echoes of the carnival
In symphonies of distant horns
And fireworks from the arsenal.

The clown alone retains her grin,
The paint and pathos still her tools
And walks abroad beneath the sun
Though now the followers are the fools.

The pantomime has lost its house
And entered tents in pockets kept
An ocean full of foolishness
Where once our pennies slept

The tailoring of our fantasies,
Is found within those seams,
And like the clowns of old
Adept at manifesting dreams

The whips and lions left the ring
Of sand beneath the big top beams
We search the edge of the net's reach
To find expėrience limite

From one wide whimsical cannonade
We ""Alice through the looking glassed”
To a ring tone circus all around
That sings at every camera flash

The world is wider than ever 'twas,
Infinite as we can conceive
But somewhere in the mirrors gaze,
Does every clown not grieve?

with YURY RUZHYEV
directed by Harrison Thomas

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BIANCA MASE:
Bianca’s show is a personal piece, created at Bonts international clown school under the theme of "Human Tragedy and Clown" for Bianca creating and performing this piece was a great healing to her. It is a true story of a failed love relationship she had with a cactus. The theme Clown and Human Tragedy comes from Eric D’Bonts creation concepts, It is a very difficult theme to use when approaching clown, but has the potential when done well to bring out the poetic side of the clown and to bring a great healing to the performer and audience as Bianca hopes to do with her show. It was a very emotional process to create, and a lot of fun to perform. She uses a cactus to represent the lover who was constantly pushing her away and hurting her emotionally and uses badges to represent her denial and constant efforts to love and please him. She sings for him, she dances for him, she even does a rather silly strip tease (there is no nudity in this show) and every time he hurts her with his thorns. The thorns representing real hurts that happened through the relationship. Though the subject is unpleasant and clearly not a laughing matter, Bianca has channeled her pain into the mind of the clown and has created a piece full of classic clown behavior and tricks.
Tragedies are something we all experience and hunt us, Bianca’s Tragedy is one that she knows many humans will be able to relate to and hopes to be able bring a smile and a laugh to those who can and those who can’t.

​Friday, September 30th at 6:30pm
Sunday, October 2nd at 5pm
Théâtre MiniMain Theatre

HORAIRE / SCHEDULE

  • Friday 30 September 2016 / 18:30
  • Sunday 2 October 2016 / 17:00

30 minutes
Pour âges / For ages 16+
Pas de retardataires / No latecomers

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