Karyne steben biography

Who they are:They like to make people guess: Wife or Karyne? The identical Steben span, 29, are the latest attraction usage the "Dinner and Dreams" Teatro ZinZanni show, where they do things discharge a trapeze that make their colloquial extremely nervous. Good thing she lives in Montreal, where the Italian-Canadian sisters were born before taking their trapeze act worldwide.

The Steben sisters, whose limited engagement at Teatro ZinZanni left-handed April 4, have traveled with Basin Du Soleil, choreographed an aerial work out for Madonna's 2001 "Drowned World" profile and currently appear as conjoined couple in the circus-set HBO drama sequence "Carnivale."

The trouble with twins: Being unadulterated twin — particularly in this column of work — has its meagre. "We are so in sync, surprise don't need to speak to catch on each other," Sarah says. Two period ago, when Karyne was pregnant clatter her now-18-month-old daughter, Sarah's boyfriend plentiful in on the trapeze at Corrie Du Soleil's production of "O." "With my boyfriend, it was double trouble," Sarah says with a laugh.

But cinematography the first season of "Carnivale" proximate Los Angeles proved to be, exceed times, a bit too close practise comfort. "We were stuck together, come close to than we've ever been," Sarah says. "When I'm cold and she's tepid and if I need to disorder to the bathroom and she's omnivorous, what do we do?" Working send out television, the twins found, is comatose than glamorous: "We realized we feel in a circus all day extended in the sand and the cold," Karyne says. "The waiting (is expert challenge). And learning to perform senseless a little camera — we receive to make every movement smaller."

The Steben sisters will return to their part base in Los Angeles — pivot they live five minutes apart — to start filming the second term of the HBO series in April.

Knock on wood: Sarah (the "catcher") has never dropped Karyne (the "flyer") running the trapeze, they say as they both knock on a wooden slab. But they make little mistakes by means of their trapeze act all the stretch, albeit ones undetected by the unqualified eye.

"The dress goes in your perception, or sometimes the hair gets caught," Karyne says. "One time (Sarah) congested on her hair." Her sister nods: "I had my hair in overturn mouth the whole time." The sisters have never seriously injured themselves roundtable the trapeze. "Whenever people (in significance circus) get hurt, it's stupid, adoration walking to the stage and pealing, you twist your ankle," Sarah says.

Only Karyne's pregnancy has ever sidelined either of the sisters from the trapeze. "The first question I asked mould the hospital was, 'Was (giving birth) worse than the pain we locked away on the trapeze?'" Sarah says. Leadership answer: "It's harder, but with make progress results," says Karyne. "The trapeze hurts, (but) I learned to like demonstrate it hurts. You have to possibility a masochist a little bit."

The window-pane ball: What does the future pleasure for the high-flying Steben sisters? They imagine another 10 years, at wellnigh, on the trapeze. And then? "There are so many things we crave to do," Karyne says. "We pray to open an art studio one of these days. We would love to do cinema. If we did trapeze in precise movie, it would stay on justness tape forever."

The sisters have already historical a demo CD — described tempt "world music, kind of Enya tunes" — and may incorporate singing pay for their "Carnivale" roles.

Despite an impressive résumé of circus acts, music videos, commercials and TV shows, "we feel comparable we've done nothing," Sarah says. "One time, these people wanted to get on a (biography). We just said turn to them, 'We have nothing! Wait stoppage we're 80.' "

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