People Watching
Canada
Circus | Dance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People Watching is a collective comprising six multidisciplinary artists currently based in Montreal. Founded in the tumultuous spring of 2020, they were initially moved to investigate ways in which intimacy could be shared with an audience during a time of profound seclusion. The inquisitive nature of this creative process led them to fuse their organic acrobatic research with elements of physical theatre and nuanced choreographic work. By providing the awe-inspiring qualities of contemporary circus with a scaffolding of depth and context, People Watching began to establish a body of work that is intimate and inherently human. Using live performance, film, and photography as a vehicle for their artistic endeavors, they have found local and international recognition, which in turn has fostered collaborations with a multitude of established creatives and companies, such as Jacob Jonas The Company, Diego Vega, Amy J. Gardner, Alice Phoebe Lou, Ines Talbi, Susannah Haight and Jason Lam.

SHOWS

Play Dead - 2023

PRAISE FOR

People Watching
"The Canadian company People Watching, which we should not lose track of at all, has built before us, with barbaric delicacy, with the subtlety of watchmaking precision, a spectacle of such power that it forces the eye(s) to not miss a single detail."
La Verdad
"They have taken the art of clowning and theatrical absurdity to a level that, like the circus, defies gravity and embraces risk as well as the bold intimacy of physical trust and interdependence."
Nadia Drouin
"The fact remains that this collective takes us elsewhere. Without circus apparatus and without words, it makes us smile and moves us. These six artists, who have the ambition to reinvent the circus of tomorrow, have just raised the bar high. Remember their names."
La Presse