Between now and the 14th of Juy, Montréal becomes Circus City with the return of the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival (4th edition).
The festival opened last night with a short parade of circus artist’s that began at the corner of Ontario and Saint-Denis and ended with an acrobatic performance at Place Émilie Gamelin – a short preview of Babel produced by Anthony Venisse that will be performed each night between 9pm and 10pm.
Montréal Complètement Cirque parade
ISO 200 – 220mm – f11 – 1/125 sec
Pre-parade warm up
ISO 200 – 14mm – f4.8 – 1/320 sec
Human towers on rue Saint-Denis
ISO 200 – 20mm – f10 – 1/80 sec
Nomadic Acrobats on rue Saint-Denis
ISO 200 – 10mm – f5.6 – 1/80 sec
street of red umbrellas
ISO 200 – 17mm – f5.6 – 1/40 sec
Happy not to be walking
ISO 200 – 300mm – f5.6 – 1/1000 sec
Reflections in a sousaphone
ISO 200 – 300mm – f5.6 – 1/320 sec
The magic hand
ISO 200 – 122mm – f4.8 – 1/320 sec
Everything OK down there?
ISO 200 – 195mm – f5.3 – 1/125 sec
Nomadic Acrobats perform in Babel
ISO 400 – 92mm – f5 – 1/500 sec
Super Kilt
ISO 400 – 112mm – f7.1 – 1/250 sec
Climbing the tower of Babel
ISO 400 – 100mm – f7.1 – 1/500 sec
Climbing the tower of Babel
ISO 400 – 70mm – f7.1 – 1/1250 sec
Seated up high
ISO 400 – 155mm – f7.1 – 1/640 sec
Trampowall fun
ISO 400 – 98mm – f7.1 – 1/400 sec
Jumping Kilt
ISO 400 – 135mm – f7.1 – 1/250 sec
Looked harder going down
ISO 400 – 122mm – f8 – 1/800 sec
Babel certainly looks like a performance worth catching if you are in Montréal…plus lot’s of other free (and paid) shows to see between now and the 13th – for full schedule, head over to Montréal Complètement Cirque website.
Time to catch the bus
ISO 400 – 70mm – f8 – 1/200 sec
On my way to the circus parade I passed through the jazz festival and by coincidence there was a girl doing a performance with a big hoop. Since I was a bit early for the parade I stopped to grab a few pictures and decided to shoot extended exposures to emphasize the movement.
All in a spin
ISO 200 – 20mm – f29 – 1/13 sec
All in a spin
ISO 200 – 20mm – f29 – 1/20 sec
I swung by the Jazz festival on the way back and too and managed to shoot a couple of shows and will share tomorrow.
Thanks for stopping by. Until next time.
– Martin