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Elisabeth Lehoux
(Make-up Designer)
Born in Montreal, Elisabeth Lehoux discovered the art of makeup while she was a student in Art and Visual Communication at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She had the chance to study with great masters, who taught her the essence of her art and has not stopped working for the past 15 years. Her passion and her talent bring her to create and give life to faces for many characters for the Special Events at Cirque du Soleil as well as for independent artists around the world.
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John Turner
(Director)
John Turner is best known as the "Smoot" half of Mump & Smoot, along with Michael Kennard ("Mump"). This award winning Canadian clown duo has delighted audiences throughout North America for the past 24 years. In 2010 Mump & Smoot presented their newest show “Cracked” at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and as part of the Magnetic North Festival to outstanding audience response and critical acclaim. It has gone on to successful runs at Theatre Network in Edmonton and at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary in April/May 2011. After three sold out Fringe
Festival tours in 1989, 1990, and 1992, Mump & Smoot went on to play regional theatres across the continent with great success. These theatres include the Astor Place Theater (Off Broadway), Yale Repertory Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, the Dallas Theater Center, the American Repertory Theater (Boston), Baltimore Center Stage, the Canadian Stage in Toronto, Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary, and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre to name but a few. John has been recognized for his work with a Dora award, a Canadian Comedy award, a Boston Theatre award and a Drama Logue award (California). John began teaching the Pochinko style of clown in 1991 at Equity Showcase in Toronto. He taught there for 7 years before opening his own studio, The SPACE, with Michael Kennard where he continued to teach, direct, and work on Mump & Smoot shows for the next 6 years. He currently teaches primarily at Laurentian University and throughout the summer on his farm, The Clown Farm, on Manitoulin Island. He also has had ongoing teaching gigs at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre (6 years) and the De-ba-jeh-mu-jig.
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Paolo
(Video Editor)
Paolo is an independent filmmaker and professional photographer based in Las Vegas Nevada. His video and photographic work focuses on, but is not limited to, performers in dance and musical entertainment, as well as, projects with environmental and social consciousness. He produced video projection installations for Le Capitole de Quebec’s production of “Man in Black”; an homage to the legendary music of Johnny Cash, Celine Dion and Rene Angelil’s TourMotion Production for the show VERO for Veronique DiCaire and other artistic projects in the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe. Paolo also created and directed shows in Las Vegas, Pasadena and Malibu,
California for the United Nation’s official coral reef monitoring program called ReefCheck Foundation. These were shows that helped create marine ecosystem awareness through the use of artistic expression; through video projections, dance and music; utilizing world-class musicians and dancers from the “A New Day” show in Las Vegas and Nevada Ballet Theatre. The shows titled the Inhabitants Project garnered the support of influential people such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Daryl Hannah, Gale Anne Hurd, Carol Connors and Dr. Sylvia Earle.
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Sandrine Lafond
(Creator - Performer)
Sandrine was born in France where she started dancing at five years old. She attended the prestigious Rosella Hightower Dance School in Cannes. A gypsy at heart she traveled from one country to another to study new ways of interpreting her art. Then nineteen years ago she fell in love with Montreal and its cultural scene. From that point on; the North American continent became her home, and the rest of the word her playground. Sandrine has had the pleasure to work with Cirque du Soleil (Delirium, Kooza, Zarkana, special events), Celine Dion (A New Day), Marie Chouinard (Etude Poignante, The Right Of Spring, The cry of the world, Chopin) and Philippe Decoufle (1992 Olympic Games opening/closing ceremonies) and many other talented friends along the way. Her desire to break new ground brought her to Japan to study with Butoh master Min Tanaka and back home to Canada to study clown with John Turner, Francine Cote and bouffon with Karen Hines. Filled with that knowledge she felt the need to create her own work, which gave life to the character “Little Lady”. A personal reflection on ten years of her life in Las Vegas. Sandrine performed her show: “Little Lady” 67 times in 2012 across the North American continent.
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Yves Frulla
(Composer)
A versatile musician with a background in classical piano, Yves Frulla quickly worked his way up in the music industry, establishing his reputation as a brilliant keyboard player. Today, his impressive experience reads like a “who’s-who” of the pop/rock music scene, both in his native Canada and internationally. Indeed, over the years, he has toured and travelled extensively with a number of renowned Canadian artists, including Juno Award winner Sass Jordan, as well as Julie Masse, Sylvain Cossette, Laurence Jalbert and Claude Dubois. Since 1990, he has had the honour of being keyboard player for Celine Dion, touring with her worldwide, recording three live albums and appearing on numerous TV shows, including Jay Leno, David Letterman, Arsenio Hall, and Oprah Winfrey. He was part of Celine’s “A New Day” Las Vegas show, hailed as a breakthrough in the entertainment world and is currently part of Celine's new Caesar's Palace Las Vegas show that premiered on March 15th 2011. Also an experienced composer and bandleader, Yves has produced, arranged and recorded television and film music for vocalists and dance groups, and has composed and arranged for both published and new songwriters. He currently owns a project studio in Las Vegas, and regularly commutes to Nashville and Los Angeles to collaborate on songwriting projects with established songwriters. He plans to continue writing, producing, recording and touring with new and established artists, and pursuing television and film work.
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