The TEAM
DROP THE ACT
We are "Drop the Act," a group of circus performers eager to explore the potential of Web 3.0 as a fresh avenue for artistic expression and income generation. Drawing inspiration from traditional circus arts, we blend our acrobatic skills with blockchain technology, NFTs, and decentralized platforms to create immersive experiences that transcend physical boundaries. With a shared vision of pushing artistic and technological boundaries, we aim to redefine the circus for the digital age, pioneering a new era of artistic exploration and financial sustainability for performers.
Didier
Stowe
Julien
Roberge
Carl Rom
Colthoff
Thomas
Chambers
Didier
Stowe
Didier Stowe, a former trampoline competitor turned circus acrobat and music composer, has made significant contributions to renowned companies like Eloize, Les 7 Doigts de la main, and Cirque du Soleil. His accolades include winning the Bronze Clown at the Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo in 2013 and appearing on France’s 'Plus grand cabaret du monde' in 2012. During his tenure in Cirque du Soleil's "Joya," Didier formed the band ‘Moth Pilots’ and released the album 'Aberdeen,' with tracks featured in TV series like 'Dexter' and 'Ordinary Joe.' In 2022, Livici, a collaboration between Les 7 Doigts de la main and Showcap, used Didier's songs as the foundation for a ground-breaking metaverse experience, integrating acrobatics and music in the world’s first live-virtual circus show. Many of those songs appear on Didier’s solo EP, ‘Well Well Well’, released in March 2024. Today, Didier continues to blend music and circus in innovative performances worldwide.
Julien
Roberge
Julien is an elite trampwall and trampoline artist with 18 years’ experience doing shows, and almost 25 years’ experience in trampoline. He has performed in over 3,500 shows,and has one of the first ever viral trampwall videos. Julien currently works managing cloud infrastructure for a software company in Montreal. When not on the computer or a trampoline, Julien loves to play with his 2 young children or run around on a tennis court.
Carl Rom
Colthoff
Originally from Aurora, Ontario, Carl now resides in Montreal. A seasoned performer, Carl was a long-time member of the Canadian National trampoline team, competing in three world championships. He began performing at the age of 16 and has since performed over 3000 shows globally for elite circus companies, including a five-year tenure with Cirque du Soleil. In 2020, Carl co-founded the Drop the Act collective with Didier Stowe, Julien Roberge, and Thomas Chambers. Outside of circus, Carl’s interests include financial markets, travel, and making memes.
Thomas
Chambers
Thomas Chambers at 34 years old has over 2 decades of professional experience within the performing arts industry. Since he was 8 years old, Thomas has been involved in many large-scale productions as an actor in both film and television while being actively involved in a variety of sports, including competitive Trampoline. At the age of 15, he would direct his motivation as a professional Trampolinist, competing in many national championships and proudly, representing Canada at the Indo Pacific Games in Japan, in 2010. After over 10 years as a competitive athlete, Thomas began his journey as a circus artist, pushing the acrobatic limits of the circus discipline Trampoline Wall. Seeing early success in this field, his career would take him around the world performing for a variety of companies, notably spending 4 years with “JOYÁ” by Cirque du Soleil near Cancun, Mexico from 2016-2020.
After 20 years as a performer, Thomas has been paving the way to be creative within the performing arts industry, off stage. From artistically directing over a dozen small-midsized circus productions around the USA and Canada with Les Productions Haut-Vol since 2015 to 2022. Being the Casting Director with Lafontaine Studios for the “Harry Potter: A Yule Ball Celebration” presented by Warner Brothers and Fever in Montréal, in 2022. To most recently taking on a hybrid role as performer and Artistic Director of Cirque du Soliel’s newest immersive and sensorial experience “SPIRIT”, in collaboration with The Macallan in Spey Side, Scotland. As Thomas continues to grow his career, while being enrolled at McGill University for a professional development certificate in Executive Production in Creative Industries. He looks to continue being inspired and collaborative within the performing arts industry.
Les 7 doigts de la main
Les 7 doigts de la main (also known as The 7 Fingers) is an arts collective unlike any other. Founded in 2002, the company has expanded from its own signature touring shows to creating theatrical experiences as diverse as the very artistic directors themselves: original productions varying from intimate one-man shows to large-scale arena performances, Broadway musicals, artistic collaborations with renowned international artists and companies, special events, Olympic ceremonies, televised performances, immersive experiences and much more. Fascinated by the human condition, The 7 Fingers create performances that celebrate our world, our time and our humanity.
Learn more: 7fingers.com
Samuel
Tétreault
Raphaël
Dupont
Alexandre
Téodoresco
Isabelle
Domens
Samuel
Tétreault
Artistic Director
Samuel is an artistic director renowned for his creative versatility. His interest in interdisciplinary creation has led him to direct a wide variety of works combining circus with dance, theater, visual arts, video, and new technologies.
A native of Montreal, Samuel is a graduate of the National Circus School. In 1996, he embarked on a remarkable career as a hand-balancing artist, notably with Cirque du Soleil in the show Alegria, where he performed over 1,500 times. In 2002, he became one of the 7 co-founders of the creative collective Les 7 doigts de la main.
With Les 7 Doigts, Samuel has directed the shows RIOPELLE Grandeur Nature, Carry Me Home (Innovation award – HUB 2023), Geysers, Vice & Vertu, Bosch Dreams, Triptyque (Grand prize – CAM 2015), Projet Fibonacci and Intersection. His creations are presented around the world in prestigious theaters and festivals including Sadler’s Well, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Melbourne Arts Festival, La Villette, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Place des Arts.
Raphaël
Dupont
Digital Artist
After a National Superior Diploma in Plastic Expression (DNSEP) at the EESI in Poitiers, Raphaël Dupont explores new media through interactive video and sound installations. For almost 15 years, he has also collaborated with various theater and dance companies, and with music bands for scenography creations. In particular, he develops programmed video setups for shows or performances that interact in real time with the performers' bodies.
He proposes sensorial, poetic and corporal experiences to the spectators. He also creates experiences demonstrating how the audience relates to images, sounds and objects. He explores the relationship between body and object: how to design the object (solid, visual, audible) so that it calls for gesture, interaction. He worked on immersive exhibitions, hybrid shows and more generally on the interpretation of the body in space as a scenographic vocabulary.
Alexandre
Téodoresco
Innovation and Business Development
Alexandre Teodoresco is Vice-President of Strategic Development and Innovation at Les 7 Doigts de la main. With his sights firmly set on the future of live performance, his mandate is to guide Les 7 Doigts into new markets, and to design and implement strategies to explore new horizons for the company. His comfort zone and the projects he leads lie at the intersection of human creativity, live performance and technology. One of these structuring projects, LAB7, is already enabling 7Doigts to embark on the adventure of AR, VR, XR and AI.
Isabelle
Domens
Project Management
With a passion for efficient execution and a keen eye for detail, Isabelle plays an essential role in the success of the projects she works on. Isabelle's commitment to innovation has led her to contribute to the advancement of cutting-edge projects at the heart of Montreal's dynamic technology scene.
FEATURED ARTISTS
We have invited exceptional artists to participate in our collections. Whether dancers or acrobats, each of them brings out the best in their art, displaying their personalities in movements honed and perfected by years of practice and performance.
Veronica
Herrera
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Marie-Eve
Dicaire
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Emanuelle
Lê Phan
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Dina
Sok
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Veronica
Herrera
Marie-Eve
Dicaire
Emanuelle
Lê Phan
Dina
Sok
PRODUCTION TEAM
Mélisandre
Bouchard-Berger
Multimedia Integrator, & Mocap Operator
Florian
Fazio
Mocap Data Cleanup
Clémence
Montambault
Project Manager
Jean
Morell
3D Artist
Vincent
Ladouceur
3D Artist
loïc
Mallet
3D Artist
Charlotte
L. Guzman
Administration
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