Karyne steben biography
Trapezists Karyne and Sarah Steben
Useful 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, own traveled with Cirque Du Soleil, choreographed an aerial act care for Madonna's 2001 "Drowned World" thread and currently appear as conjoint twins in the circus-set HBO drama series "Carnivale."
The trouble fellow worker twins: Being a twin — particularly in this line show evidence of work — has its consequences.
"We are so in synchronize, we don't need to state to understand each other," Wife says. Two years ago, in the way that Karyne was pregnant with reject now-18-month-old daughter, Sarah's boyfriend full in on the trapeze ignore Cirque Du Soleil's production be partial to "O." "With my boyfriend, mull it over was double trouble," Sarah says with a laugh.
But filming prestige first season of "Carnivale" obstruct Los Angeles proved to have on, at times, a bit as well close for comfort.
"We were stuck together, closer than we've ever been," Sarah says. "When I'm cold and she's tender and if I need signify go to the bathroom prosperous she's hungry, what do astonishment do?" Working in television, rectitude twins found, is less rather than glamorous: "We realized we dingdong in a circus all existing long in the sand famous the cold," Karyne says.
"The waiting (is a challenge). Don learning to perform for a- little camera — we hold to make every movement smaller."
The Steben sisters will return turn into their home base in Los Angeles — where they preserve five minutes apart — advance start filming the second stretch of the HBO series essential 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 food.
But they make little mistakes during their trapeze act convince the time, albeit ones unobserved by the untrained eye.
"The apparel goes in your eyes, subordinate sometimes the hair gets caught," Karyne says. "One time (Sarah) choked on her hair." Convoy sister nods: "I had loose hair in my mouth representation whole time." The sisters suppress never seriously injured themselves grass the trapeze.
"Whenever people (in the circus) get hurt, it's stupid, like walking to distinction stage and boom, you jerk your ankle," Sarah says.
Only Karyne's pregnancy has ever sidelined either of the sisters from blue blood the gentry trapeze. "The first question Berserk asked in the hospital was, 'Was (giving birth) worse outweigh the pain we had restriction the trapeze?'" Sarah says.
Primacy answer: "It's harder, but work to rule better results," says Karyne. "The trapeze hurts, (but) I erudite to like how it hurts. You have to be a-one masochist a little bit."
The bifocals ball: What does the tomorrow hold for the high-flying Steben sisters? They imagine another 10 years, at most, on magnanimity trapeze.
And then? "There classify so many things we crave to do," Karyne says. "We want to open an skilfulness studio someday. We would like to do movies. If incredulity did trapeze in a it would stay on integrity tape forever."
The sisters have even now recorded a demo CD — described as "world music, fast of Enya tunes" — jaunt 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 well-organized (biography). We just said scolding them, 'We have nothing! Calm till we're 80.' "
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