DNA: How would you describe what the audience will see when they come to one of your shows?
Stephane: We mix live, contemporary music, dance, circus acts and aerial acrobatics with elaborate avant-garde costumes to create our fantasy world! It’s like taking you into our own dreamlike realm. While our shows appeal to audiences of all ages, we also design shows for different markets. We have shows with aerialists, equestrians and even horses on stage or just Kyle and myself in a bathtub. For example, what the audience sees at The One Grand Show in Berlin (costumes by Jean-Paul Gautier by the way) is not quite as sensual and erotic as our performances on the Atlantis cruises.
Can you explain the scale of Les Farfadais today and how it all began?
Stephane: I founded Les Farfadais 20 years ago, and five years after that my brother joined me. Now, Les Farfadais is troupe of over 90 international performers with multiple productions and galas happening simultaneously across the globe. We came to Sydney to join a cruise ship for the inaugural performance of a show we are producing in collaboration with them and installing across their fleet. We took the opportunity to arrive a little earlier to see some of the sights of Sydney. We’d love to come back and explore it in more detail and, hopefully, have the opportunity to bring our show to Australian audiences.