Tag: Les Colporteurs

• 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

• 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