Marie-Hélène D'Amours
Marie-Hélène D’Amours grew up in Montréal.
After studying recreational management at Cégep de Saint-Laurent, dramatic arts at UQAM and the circus arts at the École de Cirque de Québec, she founded Le Cirque en L'Air, an aerial-show company that performed in schools and several festivals in Quebec. This experience led her to a new passion: clowning. Between 2001 and 2003, she trained as a clown with Francine Côté, with whom she created the character of Mademoiselle Manon.
She performed her clown acts at several international events, and toured Switzerland and Belgium with the Starlight Circus, in a show directed by Yves Dagenais. At the end of 2005, she founded Swigne la Bacaisse and took her circus, musical and clown performances to numerous festivals throughout French-speaking Europe. In 2007, she developed the Entre Rhône et Saint-Laurent project with her husband and children. This project led her to set sail with her family halfway around the world on a two-year sailing adventure. She has given circus and ecology education workshops and shows in France, Morocco, Cape Verde, Senegal, the West Indies and Quebec. Upon returning to Montréal, she founded Le Gros Orteil and presents their shows in theatres around Quebec.
She performed her clown acts at several international events, and toured Switzerland and Belgium with the Starlight Circus, in a show directed by Yves Dagenais. At the end of 2005, she founded Swigne la Bacaisse and took her circus, musical and clown performances to numerous festivals throughout French-speaking Europe. In 2007, she developed the Entre Rhône et Saint-Laurent project with her husband and children. This project led her to set sail with her family halfway around the world on a two-year sailing adventure. She has given circus and ecology education workshops and shows in France, Morocco, Cape Verde, Senegal, the West Indies and Quebec. Upon returning to Montréal, she founded Le Gros Orteil and presents their shows in theatres around Quebec.
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