Category: Performance

• Les Colporteurs’ “Filao”

  

  The best part of the show comes when limbs of trees are scattered all over the stage, on the ground, and along the highwire. Agathe Olivier (co-founder of Les Colporteurs with Antoine Rigot) walks across the uneven limbs in high heels….

  Charleston City Paper, circus, Performance, Spoleto Festival

  Agathe Olivier, Antoine Rigot, Filao, Les Colporteurs, Spoleto

• The Colla Marionettes’ “Aida”

  

  The marionettes themselves were very life-like — with Amneris and Aida being exceptionally realistic. The costumes and scenery are truly works of art, and the set is like the most beautiful jewel-box ever made.

  Charleston City Paper, opera, Performance, puppetry, Spoleto Festival

  Aida, Colla Marionettes, Spoleto

• Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens at Spoleto

  

  These contemporary pieces were done with artistry and precision by a company whose artistic director, Gradimir Pankov, says he wants to turn it into one of the most exciting companies in the world.

  Charleston City Paper, dance, Performance, Spoleto Festival

  dance, Jiri Kylian, Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe

• Les Colporteurs and their noveau cirque

  

  The big top tent is perhaps the star of this ensemble — or rather the heart. It has an opaque, caramel- and ivory-striped exterior that rises 49 feet high. … It takes the group three days to set up the tent and two days to strike it. Antoine calls the tent “our playground, our place…

  Charleston City Paper, circus, Performance, Spoleto Festival

  2000, circus, Cirque, Les Colporteurs, Spoleto