Transitions

Work is progressing fast now that it is less than two weeks left until the premiere!

Barbara !

As Christer said before, two weeks ago we did the photo shooting in a real hotel. It was really funny ad interesting to see each artist with their costums.

Here you can see Barbara - the woman who is making our costums and Cécile, talking about the photo shooting.

Chapiteau

Today was another one of those days we have been waiting for; The day they build the big top! It's up, it's big, it's beautiful, it's yellow with red stripes, it's decorated with hundreds of lightbulbs, it's Circus Monti!

Moving day

Hello.

I have seen that we have already quite a big group of people following our adventures.
Every day we have one person in Las Vegas visiting the blog. And one in Berlin (I guess it's mr. Frenette...) We have almost every day somebody from Norsborg in Stockholm and some in Quebec Canada checking in (pun intended!). We also have have people from Luzern, Geneva, Zurich, Brussels & London visiting regularly. There are 18 visitors in average every day and we want more so tell your friends! :)

Today we did the first real runthrough of the show with transitions and acts included! And we have moved to the first circus place. Not so far from where we were before but it is nice to see some new surroundings around the caravans. The chapiteau is not yet built. It will gradually take shape from Monday to Thursday. We are so excited!!!

(Photos coming later today or Saturday morning.)

Globus & Photoshoot

Yesterday I bought a little fish named Globus. Here he is in full color in his aquarium:

...and today I had my photoshoot for the souvenir program so I got to wear my costume so after the real photographer was ready with me I played around with my own camera and added some effects in Photoshop to make it look cooler...



Mario just "fell" down the stairs...

Training !!

Laura on her cloudswing.

Laura is doing handstands.

Jonas, diabolos !

Stefan with his chinese pole.

Cleaning men!

Every evening two of us have to clean the training space.

Here we can see Jonas and Christer who are really enjoying their job !

About us!

Welcome to our team blog!

We are the artist and director team in the Circus Monti show 2009 called "Grand Hotel Monti".
On this website you can read about our experiences during the two months of creation in January and February, and also during the tour from 13th of March to the 25th of October 2009 in Switzerland.

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Enjoy!

L'enfant

Aujourd'hui Christer a adopté un pitiiit poisson ! Nous somme très heureux d'accueillir GLOBUS au sein de l'équipe Monti 09. Cette sorte de poisson est supposée vivre 6 ans. Espérons qu'il tiendra les 8 mois de tournée. Et qu'il n'aura pas le vertige du haut du fil mou de son pôôpa.

Sur la photo Christer fait des courses de futur Pater. Youh ! Content !

Song rehearsals...

Lillo, the composer of the music for the show has decided to put a choir together with the orchestra during Saphorines vertical rope act. So some of us artists have to sing!
It's song without words, so we don't have to learn the lyrics, but it's still difficult to learn the notes. Lillo likes to experiment with transitions and changements in his works, and it's great fun to try to sing it how he wants it to be. I don't read notes, so I just listen to the music and guess what I have to sing next... Sometimes this sounds horrible! The picture of Stefan can better explain the situation:

Stefans Frustration!

Cecile & Cecile during a very emotional part of the song.
You can see the sadness reflected in their tearful eyes.

Didi & Jonas in perfect unitone!

Training montage!

Laura, Jonas, Celine, Sara & Cecile.

Sara, Martin & Jenny

Laura & Stefan

Laura, Didi & Jonas.

Celine a.k.a Benedictine & Martin a.k.a Martin

Inspirations

Voici deux des photos qui nous ont inspiré dans les histoires de nos personnages!

HIHIHIHIHI!!!

Most of the time we are happy!

But sometimes it happens....

maybe just a little bit more sugar ?

it is growing

In the workshop of the circus Monti they build up a real sice Grand Hotel ! You see Kaspar at work here.
Today the dekorations wehre transported by a truck to the painter in east switzerland and we will see the first time our set for the show within a week. I' am looking forward and I'am very exited.

Didi

Voici Sasha!

Voici Sacha! une des directrices de notre spectacle.

Un petit mot pour lui souhaiter du bon repos à la maison!

Que la force soit avec toi!

A bientôt!

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