While some children dream of running away to affix the circus, Louana Secet dreamed of a life under the large top when she was young.
“I grew up in the circus,” said Sec it. “When I was young, I was attracted more of things that I didn't know.”
At the age of 14, Seeclet went to the family business and trained along with her father Mathieu Secet on the Washington Trapez in her homeland France. Fifteen years later, the younger secret with Cirque du Soleil's “Echo” is on tour, which finally ends up on April 8 on April eighth on the Fairgrounds Santa Clara County.
In addition to the looks on the Washington Trapez, which has a stand in the center to compensate for her on her head, Secet plays the longer term in “Echo”. Her character is a young woman who, together along with her dog, researches the bond individuals with animals and nature.
“I make the whole show as a character and my deed appears at the end of the show,” said Sec ita from a tour stop in Brazil. “After an hour of performance, it requires endurance.”
The concentration can be needed to face on a bar high above the audience.
“The most important thing is to really have a good focus. It is a balancing act,” said Secet. “Then it's about the tricks. … Your body knows what to do.”
As a physiotherapist and a trapezoidal artist, Secet said that the previous informs the latter.
“There is awareness of your body and how we can prevent some injuries,” she said. “As an artist, we want to do this for as long as possible, but we cannot know when we have to stop. For me it is security.”
As an animal lover, Sec itled desired to turn out to be a veterinarian for the primary time, but found that the occupation didn’t promise with its circus work. Nevertheless, her appreciation for the natural world was reflected within the shows wherein she performed and installed “echo”. Her first circus appearance after leaving the National Circus School in Montreal was Mother Nature for Canada's Wunderlands Tundra Show in Toronto.
Seclet said there are similarities between this character and the longer term in “Echo”.
“The only difference is that in 'echo' my friend Dog is with me all the time, so I'm more connected to the animals.”
In 2019, Seclet originally got here to Cirque for “Under the Same Sky”, a show that was never opened because of the pandemic. The show was revised for “Echo”, but Secret said her character didn't change a lot.
“It was more her look,” she said, adding that her character used to have a blue wig and an in depth make -up. “That changed to make me more human. The dog remained the same.”
During the pandemic, Seeclet worked as a street artist and in a German cabaret.
“I really fought to perform during the pandemic,” she said. “Germany was a place on the planet where shows were still running.”
When “Echo” got here by, Sec itled, she was still properly from the cancellation of “under the same sky”.
“I had turned this page in my life. It was over,” she added. “I had to rethink that.”
The show was premiered in Montreal in 2023, with SeClet still being within the leading role.
“With the new production, it is interesting that we have many old circus disciplines,” said SeClet, amongst other things, within the hair suspension and the hair. “My discipline is actually old; (Kaye Washington) she invented it within the nineteenth century.
“I'm super happy to be in a production that does not allow that old circus disciplines die.”
Sec it’s also glad that she decided to proceed within the family business.
“It is connected to my grandfather at my roots,” she also said a circus artist. “Under the big top is the best place on earth. When I was a child, it was my daily life, but it is the place where I find magical.”
For time times and ticket information, visit https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/echo.
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