The New Victory Theater Presents The NY Premiere Of MACHINE DE CIRQUE

The five circus artists of Machine de Cirque are making mayhem come alive on the New Victory stage this autumn. Swinging by their toes high above the stage, bicycling upside-down and backwards, this group of awe-inspiring acrobats includes the Guinness World Record-holding duo for the most consecutive backflips on a teeterboard! The gravity-defying cast also features alumni of Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Eloize and 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts de la Main). These recipients of the Trophée Charlie-Chaplin at the Festival International de Cirque Vaudreuil-Dorion dazzle with stunning feats and endless comedic madness. The New Victory Theater will host this quirky Canadian crew of daredevils from September 28 - October 7, 2018.

Founded in 2013 by circus performer and engineer Vincent Dubé (2017 recipient of the Prix du Rayonnement International, awarded by the Conseil de la Culture des régions de Québec et de Chaudière-Appalaches), Machine de Cirque is both the name of the show and the name of the nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring together various artists from the seemingly disparate worlds of art and technology to create original circus show productions. The Québec City company also encourages exchange and collaboration with other regional cultural organizations to promote home-grown talent and develop local and regional expertise.

The premiere production of Machine de Cirque's namesake show first debuted in May 2015 in Canada, followed by its US premiere at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in 2016. Since its creation, the show has been performed all across Canada as well as France, Spain, Romania, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Sweden, to name a few.

Pulling double duty as founder and director, Vincent Dubé leads the creative team and cast of Machine de Cirque, featuring circus artists and co-founders Ugo Dario, Raphaël Dubé, Maxim Laurin, Yohann Fradette-Trépanier, and musician Frédéric Lebrasseur. The production showcases lighting design by Bruno Matte, sound design by René Talbot and costume design by Sébastien Dionne.

Learn more about Machine de Cirque at NewVictory.org.

Full-price tickets for Machine de Cirque start at $17. Tickets are available online (http://www.newvictory.org/boxoffice) and by phone (646.223.3010).

To purchase tickets in person, the New Victory box office is located at 209 West 42nd Street (between 7th / 8th Avenues). Box office hours are Sunday & Monday from 11am-5pm and Tuesday through Saturday from 12pm-7pm.

The New Victory Theater brings kids to the arts and the arts to kids. Created in 1995 on iconic 42nd Street, this nonprofit theater has become a standard-bearer of quality performing arts for young audiences in the United States. Reflecting and serving the multicultural city it calls home, The New Victory is committed to arts access for all students, teachers, kids, families and communities of New York to experience and engage with the exemplary international programming of theater, dance, circus, music, puppetry and opera on its stages. A leader in arts education, youth employment and audience engagement, The New Victory Theater has been honored by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, by Americans for the Arts with a national Arts Education Award, and by the Drama Desk for "providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people."

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