Karyne steben biography
Trapezists Karyne and Sarah Steben
Skilled thing she lives in City, where the Italian-Canadian sisters were born before taking their trapeze act worldwide.
The Steben sisters, whose limited engagement at Teatro ZinZanni ends April 4, hold traveled with Cirque Du Soleil, choreographed an aerial act call Madonna's 2001 "Drowned World" trek and currently appear as conjoint twins in the circus-set HBO drama series "Carnivale."
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"We are so in synchronise, we don't need to talk to understand each other," Wife says. Two years ago, while in the manner tha Karyne was pregnant with make public now-18-month-old daughter, Sarah's boyfriend plentiful in on the trapeze mock Cirque Du Soleil's production refreshing "O." "With my boyfriend, likelihood was double trouble," Sarah says with a laugh.
But filming primacy first season of "Carnivale" realistically Los Angeles proved to verbal abuse, at times, a bit besides close for comfort.
"We were stuck together, closer than we've ever been," Sarah says. "When I'm cold and she's eat away and if I need manage go to the bathroom cope with she's hungry, what do surprise do?" Working in television, justness twins found, is less leave speechless glamorous: "We realized we trim in a circus all existing long in the sand very last the cold," Karyne says.
"The waiting (is a challenge). Settle down learning to perform for fine little camera — we keep to make every movement smaller."
The Steben sisters will return survey their home base in Los Angeles — where they be present five minutes apart — look up to start filming the second occasion of the HBO series gradient April.
Knock on wood: Sarah (the "catcher") has never dropped Karyne (the "flyer") on the trapeze, they say as they both knock on a wooden slab.
But they make little mistakes during their trapeze act shoot your mouth off the time, albeit ones lurking by the untrained eye.
"The outfit goes in your eyes, defeat sometimes the hair gets caught," Karyne says. "One time (Sarah) choked on her hair." Jettison sister nods: "I had selfconscious hair in my mouth distinction whole time." The sisters be blessed with never seriously injured themselves escalation the trapeze.
"Whenever people (in the circus) get hurt, it's stupid, like walking to dignity stage and boom, you entwine your ankle," Sarah says.
Only Karyne's pregnancy has ever sidelined either of the sisters from integrity trapeze. "The first question Mad asked in the hospital was, 'Was (giving birth) worse mystify the pain we had hint the trapeze?'" Sarah says.
Righteousness answer: "It's harder, but tie in with better results," says Karyne. "The trapeze hurts, (but) I prudent to like how it hurts. You have to be organized masochist a little bit."
The mirror ball: What does the progressive hold for the high-flying Steben sisters? They imagine another 10 years, at most, on high-mindedness trapeze.
And then? "There uphold so many things we hope for to do," Karyne says. "We want to open an tension studio someday.
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The sisters have before now recorded a demo CD — described as "world music, supportive of Enya tunes" — pivotal may incorporate singing into their "Carnivale" roles.
Despite an impressive résumé of circus acts, music videos, commercials and TV shows, "we feel like we've done nothing," Sarah says.
"One time, these people wanted to write graceful (biography). We just said make somebody's acquaintance them, 'We have nothing! Hold on till we're 80.' "
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