In Montreal, social circus organization Cirque Hors Piste (formerly Cirque du Monde) is related to an « alternative » professional circus movement which carries singular practices and aesthetics, representative of the marginality of the artists involved. These new artists groups and the original performative pieces that they produce could emerge, in parts, as a result of Cirque Hors Piste’s unique approach which respects and preserves the anti-conformist identities of its participants. This paper presents and analyses a show from company Productions Carmagnole, in which former Cirque Hors Piste (Cirque du Monde) participants take part, as a way to open the debate on the fact that these circus performances might act as leverages to alter perceptions of marginality and notions of otherness.