{"id":13769,"date":"2019-10-01T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2019-10-01T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:42:57","slug":"7-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/10\/01\/7-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Fingers\u2019 \u2018Passengers\u2019 Is Part Dance, Part Silent Movie, Part Avant-Garde Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In “Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers<\/a>, the eight acrobats tumble across the stage of ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, balance on a tight rope, climb up long silk scarves to spin high above the stage, juggle more balls than hands seem able to hold, and fling colleagues down from a trapeze only to be caught by colleagues below, who in turn fling them back up to the heavens again.<\/p>\n

The show, with performances through Oct. 13, is part rough and tumble modern dance, part silent movie, part avant-garde circus\u2014to a jaunty\u00a0soundtrack<\/a> that includes covers of Radiohead’s outsider anthem “Creep” and Tom Waits’s jazzy “Burma Shave.”<\/p>\n

In “Passengers,” a train trip becomes the central metaphor onto which the derring-do is hung. The performance luxuriates in the romantic iconography of train travel\u2014suitcases, bittersweet goodbyes, luggage carts, gazing longingly at passing landscapes. Now and again, all the breathtaking acrobatics pause for a cast member to step forward and portentously inform the audience: “Sometimes it’s not about finding somewhere new, it’s about leaving somewhere old.”<\/p>\n

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“Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers at ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, September 2019. (Alexandre Galliez photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers at ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, September 2019. (Alexandre Galliez photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers at ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, September 2019. (Alexandre Galliez photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers at ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, September 2019. (\u00e9bastien Loz\u00e9 photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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