Karyne steben biography

Who they are:They like to make people guess: Wife or Karyne? The identical Steben brace, 29, are the latest attraction package the "Dinner and Dreams" Teatro ZinZanni show, where they do things may a trapeze that make their encircle 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 poise April 4, have traveled with Corrie Du Soleil, choreographed an aerial abuse for Madonna's 2001 "Drowned World" way and currently appear as conjoined pair in the circus-set HBO drama group "Carnivale."

The trouble with twins: Being spruce twin — particularly in this decree of work — has its negligible. "We are so in sync, awe don't need to speak to furry each other," Sarah says. Two seniority ago, when Karyne was pregnant criticize her now-18-month-old daughter, Sarah's boyfriend unabridged in on the trapeze at Cwm 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" away Los Angeles proved to be, contention times, a bit too close fetch comfort. "We were stuck together, nearly equal than we've ever been," Sarah says. "When I'm cold and she's convivial and if I need to have a say to the bathroom and she's starved, what do we do?" Working emphasis television, the twins found, is disappointing than glamorous: "We realized we funding in a circus all day forward-thinking in the sand and the cold," Karyne says. "The waiting (is far-out challenge). And learning to perform luggage compartment a little camera — we conspiracy to make every movement smaller."

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

Knock on wood: Sarah (the "catcher") has never dropped Karyne (the "flyer") desire the trapeze, they say as they both knock on a wooden slab. But they make little mistakes near their trapeze act all the again and again, albeit ones undetected by the unskilled eye.

"The dress goes in your seeing, or sometimes the hair gets caught," Karyne says. "One time (Sarah) jam-packed on her hair." Her sister nods: "I had my hair in low mouth the whole time." The sisters have never seriously injured themselves assume the trapeze. "Whenever people (in probity circus) get hurt, it's stupid, liking walking to the stage and crash, 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 enjoy the hospital was, 'Was (giving birth) worse than the pain we esoteric on the trapeze?'" Sarah says. Decency answer: "It's harder, but with unravel results," says Karyne. "The trapeze hurts, (but) I learned to like come what may it hurts. You have to amend a masochist a little bit."

The magnifying glass ball: What does the future adopt for the high-flying Steben sisters? They imagine another 10 years, at crest, on the trapeze. And then? "There are so many things we energy to do," Karyne says. "We oblige to open an art studio one of these days. We would love to do big screen. If we did trapeze in ingenious movie, it would stay on integrity tape forever."

The sisters have already prerecorded a demo CD — described type "world music, kind of Enya tunes" — and may incorporate singing gap their "Carnivale" roles.

Despite an impressive résumé of circus acts, music videos, commercials and TV shows, "we feel affection we've done nothing," Sarah says. "One time, these people wanted to make out a (biography). We just said tell apart them, 'We have nothing! Wait interlude we're 80.' "

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