Détour Festival

Détour festival is an event aimed at promoting circus arts outside urban centres, both to enable artists to perform in new settings and to make circus disciplines accessible to a wider audience.

2019 programming

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6th

4 PM | SITE OPENING with local dining and drinking

5 PM | GRAND FESTIVAL OPENING with
Local afro-bresilian percussion band, Kalafüba, accompanied by circus performers

7 PM | PANTAGRUELELIC CABARET, with :
Amélie Bolduc on the cyr wheel
Rachel Chamberland on the corde lisse (aerial rope)
Ian et Charlotte on hand to hand
Martin Regouffre on the diabolo
Aude Lavergne at hand balancing
Amélie Gadbois on the chinese pole
Giselle Mar on the aerial hoop
Alexandre and Kassandra on straps
Biblo Cyr on the microphone for oral acrobatics !

9 : 30 PM | FOREST CIRCUS, with :
The Grand groupe régional d'improvisation libérée (GGRIL) night-time ZOO and in-situ circus performances orchestrated by Élise Legrand

11 PM | FIRE JAM, BONFIRE AND DJ SET with the Musical Market Gardner

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7th

11 AM to 7 PM | A DAY FOR PLAYING, with :
initiation workshops with Satourne circus school and Catherine Lamarre, theatrical animations with Cent Mille Lieux, and numerous circus acts in the streetart tradition, such as :
Martin, Ian and Charlotte at banquine
Coralie Roberge at contortion
Aurélie Tenzer on the dance trapeze
JF Bélanger on hand to hand
2J/1Show on a various street circus act
*Local dining and drinking as well as a crafts market will also be on site all day

8 PM | SHOW, with :
LPI 1 from Les parfaits inconnus
Armed with a bicycle, balls, a table, a barrel, a ladder and a board, 6 totally outrageous characters are left loose on the stage. They play the rowdiest, most daring pranks on one another, all in an atmosphere of good burlesque fun.

10 PM | FIRE SHOW, with the Firecrackers Collective

11 PM | AFTER-SHOW (for informed public) with Éliane Bonin and Kaylie Kreatrix

12 AM | BONFIRE AND DJ SET

The festival is a citizen-driven organization that believes in the principles of autonomous movements. Management is assured by volunteers who believe that art can be a part of community empowerment.