Opening Show… and six more times The 7 fingers (Canada) traces
The end is nigh right from the start: after last year’s overwhelming success, this year, “7 Fingers” will open La Strada with their new production “Traces”, which is about the explosion of life in the face of the ultimate catastrophe. “Traces” is set in an emergency shelter, behind its doors seven people anticipate the end of the world, determined to live everything to the fullest in these last moments, to leave nothing unsaid, not to miss out on anything, so to leave traces behind. They counter destruction with a creative process; their instruments are their bodies – which the exceptional artists employ in wide-ranging forms of expression from dance through song and speech to extreme acrobatics. They succeed in this with such virtuosity that the Los Angeles Times wrote: “Somewhere between your eye and your brain, logic gives up. There are some physics even Stephen Hawking can’t explain.” “7 Fingers” combine acrobatics with street art such as skateboarding and basketball, mixing it with theatre and contemporary dance ele4