A Professional Handbalancer's Origin Story (Blackmagic Pocket 4k cinematic short film)

In "All That We Have", professional circus handbalancer Marie-Eve Dicaire reflects on how she got started, auditioning for the National Circus School of Montreal (ENC), and the struggles she went through to get good at handstands. Co-directed by Eric Bates and Stefanie Fournier.
To learn from Marie Eve's online hand balancing class, check out Balance Notion:
balancenotion.com/
Filmed on the Blackmagic pocket 4k.
Thanks to ‪@Les7Doigts‬ for letting us film in their studios.
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[@renaldlaurin9697]

Wow. Eric, tu as réussi à capter le travail et la détermination de Marie-Ève, une artiste d'exception. Merci à vous deux!

[@EricBates]

Merci! We only had one afternoon to film so it was a quick session, but she's such an inspiration I was just stoked we were able to make it happen in her little bit of free time.

[@KatFinckWoodworking]

What a rockstar. Lovely work all around

[@manuelrejanomorales8370]

Wow, beatiful beatiful video. I really appreciate it... Great job

[@Niccolo_Piccioli]

So beautiful, I loved everything about it!

[@chrisbeto1874]

Wow. Thank you for this.

[@AngelicaZuenko]

Beautiful! thank you for sharing with us ❤

[@EricBates]

Thanks!

[@williamthimoleon1386]

Wahou so inspiring...

[@balintkis7085]

Beautiful

[@EricBates]

thank you!

[@WillTheFrozen]

Merci

[@JanDammClown]

Great stuff

[@EricBates]

Thanks Jan!

[@joshflinchbaugh5866]

Inspirational! I played tennis for 7 years and swimming for 4 years. After high school, I quickly noticed I started to gain weight fast.
- Got started with Calisthenics at 18 years old.
- After 1 year of basics I got a 10sec handstand then started planche. Got straddle 4 months.
- Had lots of plateaus. Wasn't injured, but had problems with my right bicep and scapula from only training planche for 2 years and no recovery. Didn't focus much on handstands during that time, too.
- Couldn't train planche for 8 months in 2022. Had a little identity crisis and started to focus more on my handstands.
- Got help from Physical Therapist and back into planche training but with more handstand in my training.
- Now 23 putting A LOT of time training handstands and flexibility.
Never been this passionate with handstands and driven towards the one arm.
Idk if I'll ever do an "official circus performance" since I started late but seeing Marie-eve do a 11:30 min One Arm sequence at 39 is insane. I hope to still be doing this by that time.

[@EricBates]

Thanks for sharing, best of luck! Marie-eve is an inspiration for sure!