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LES ARTISTES DU CIRQUE MONTI SONT LA.

ILS SONT PRETS

ILS ARRIVENT !!!

Les clans se forment

Attention, attention deux rousses et deux blondes en liberté au cirque Monti,
71 Willstrassssssssssseeeeeeee,

Wohlen

Argovie

Suisse.......

Attachez vos tuques!!!

Céline Jean, une âme en détresse

"Qui suis-je, où vais-je, que me réserve le destin?" Période difficile pour Céline Jean, loin de son Québec natal, de son sirop d'érable en canne, de son savon en barre, de sa grasse poutine..

à deux doigts de perdre son identité propre dans la première semaine de création (on se souvient de la pénible confusion latente avec Cécile), Céline Jean pensait en être sortie. Mais voilà que sa rousse crinière la trahit. Céline Jean ne peut plus compter que sur sa volonté. Pour échapper à cette ombre noire qui semble la poursuivre, Céline Jean se prend en main. Et c'est avec détermination qu'elle se jette à l'eau, sans filet, sans aucune certitude quant à son avenir, ne pouvant que prier pour que l'horizon crépusculaire s'éclaircisse.

Ainsi, le mercredi 28 janvier 2009, à 19h, Céline Jean joue son va-tout. Céline Jean se teint les cheveux, nuance 6.5 acajou auburn.

Céline Jean se sent libre, indépendante, femme !

Céline Jean est enfin à nouveau elle-même !

Saphorine

Saphorine Pétermann,

j'aime bien et même beaucoup être dans les airs (vive la corde lisse),

faire des grimaces,

ne pas rattraper de massue cette année,

être au cirque Monti,

TOUS les gens qui y travaillent,

les gâteaux de la maman de Cécile,

ma caravane (!!),

le gros rat dans ma caravane.

Objectif final : finir par réussir à comprendre le suisse allemand. Affaire à suivre

Et je peux déjà vous dire que le spectacle va être super !!

Céline & Martin

Céline Jean et Martin Laliberté,
tous deux originaires de St-Eustache, Québec, Canada.
Dans leur numéro, Martin porte Céline.
Dans leur caravane, Céline supporte Martin.
Martin fait la cuisine, Céline fait la vaiselle.
Céline fait le lavage et Martin s'occupe des gaz (oups DU gaz:).
Ces deux québécois sont fiers de relever des défis et vivre des moments inoubliables en Suisse.
C'est avec grand plaisir qu'il séjourne au Palace MONTI.

www.acrofolie.com

Christer

Hello everyone!

This is basically where I have to write something interesting about myself... I will give it a try!

I was born in Norway in 1985 and started walking when I was 7 months old, but walking on the ground was not enough for me so when I was 7 years old I started practising walking on a rope. I do not come from a cicus family. Actually, my family is a very normal Norwegian family. I grew up in a house with my parents, two brothers, a dog and some birds. It has never been a question for me if I want to do something else with my life than living as a circus artist. I spent every single day after school outside in the garden on the rope that my father had put up between the house wall and the fence.

This is me at the age of seven!

In Norway there was not any contemporary circuses around when I was young so most of my inspiration came from the four traditional circuses (Merano, Agora, Zorba & Arnardo). This has influenced me in both good and bad ways. I never knew of any other ways of performing circus until I was 15 and moved away from home to go to the only circus school in Norway (Fjordane Folkehøgskule). After this I went three years to Vasaskolan Circus Gymnasium and three years at Ecole Superieure des Arts du Cirque in Brussels (ESAC).

I hate costumes with glitter, strass and paljettes. I hate when women in circus wear string bathing suits. I don't mind animals in circus if they are treated well and taken good care of, but most animal acts are so boring to watch that I prefer circuses without animal acts.
I feel that the contemporary circus have more to offer in todays society than the traditional circus, but a good traditional circus can be great entertainment if it is well done.

I perform in Circus Monti with my act on the slackrope that I created with Samuel Jornot (director of the circus school in Tilburg, Holland) during my last one and a half years in ESAC and presented every night during one week in June 2008 in front of a live audience as a final examination. It's an act with lots of fun and stressful moments in good balance (pun intended) both for me and for the audience. I work with a goldfish in a bowl that I bring with me on the slackrope, and I can promise you that I do everything I can to make sure that the fish stays inside the bowl, that the fishbowl stays in the palms of my hands and that I don't fall down from the rope!

Enjoy the blog, and if you come to see the show this season I wish you an entertaining evening with us in the red and yellow Monti chapiteau!

www.christerpettersen.com

A tender moment between the goldfish and me

A relaxing moment in my act

(Photo copyright Xavier Claes/Soleil Rouge)

Kubb!

Funny game! Only 14.99 CHF in IKEA.

Martin shows his skills.

Enjoying the sunny Sunday.

What we do in our free time

Sunny day in Wohlen



















(what are you doing girls?)

Céline Jean and Martin Freedom "bicyle biiiicycle"

The best activity in the "Winterquarter",to change our bottle of gaz. Jenny is very lucky , she is the only artist who can often do that in the middle of the night.

Kitchen...

The most famous pet in all the Circus World. Paco the big fat rat!

The snow is gone!

It has been a fun first month in Wohlen for me; I arrived here in the evening the 5th of January and it was snow everywhere! White snow and crystal ice covered the caravans in the Circus Monti winterquarter for two weeks before the rain came!

The work on the show is progressing fast! After two weeks we already had our characters and last Friday we walked and talked our way through the first run-through of the show. "Palace Monti" is the title of the show and the story is based around a hotel, it's guests and the people working there.

We still have one and a half month to fine-tune the show before the premiere; many transitions needs to be found and worked but we have lots of fun doing this so I'm not afraid we won't be done before the big premiere the 13th of March!