circus smirkus!
the circus smirkus summer touring show is in revere today and tomorrow; ceelove and veek and i took the girls to see it today.
it was an awesome show as usual. this year they all seem to have learned some pole stuff; the show opened with its usual general melee and i think most of the performers ran up the three poles set around the ring to do one move or another. a lot of them also did some crazy tumbling runs.
there was an excellent 4-person club juggling act... which at one point included front-stealing 5 clubs, and two people flashing 6, though those weren't even the most fun parts.
there was a fabric sling act that was three very young girls-- ages 9-12 if i'm reading the program right. it was a decent act in its own right, regardless of their age (and among other things did a good job borrowing poses from static trapeze, as well as doing some more straightforwardly fabric sling stuff); but i don't think they'd featured kids quite that young in the past, so it was cool to see. they seemed to have a number of kids in that age range this year-- mostly in the partner acro type stuff, where they were being based by much larger kids who could more or less just pass them around, but still.
i was happy to see the acts not totally gender stratified: there was at least one girl who based a lot of partner acro, several who went up on pole, and the high cradle act (sort of like flying trapeze with a trapeze that doesn't move: one partner throws and catches the other), which at triton troupers was two extremely buff male bases and one (also really ripped, iirc) woman flyer, here was two girls. (the flyer might have weighed less than 100 lbs, but even so...) no male contortion this year that i saw, though there was a decent partner contortion routine with 3 girls and also a solo contortion/rhythmic gymnastics (ribbon) bit.
i missed the jumprope act, which ceelove said included a guy doing pushups over the double dutch rope.
i don't recall seeing silks, but there was a rope act. the choreography was deft but coming from silks it seemed almost deconstructionist: they'd do wraps that, in silks, would be the start of a setup for something, then hold them as poses, then slip deftly out of them into some weird strength-based hang or another. i feel like corde lisse has a different aesthetic than tissu, and this definitely showed that. :)
i don't do enough unicycling to really talk about how crazy the unicycle act was. they were jumping unicycles onto a trampoline and over obstacles on the other side, with tricks in the air on the way.
fun show!
it was an awesome show as usual. this year they all seem to have learned some pole stuff; the show opened with its usual general melee and i think most of the performers ran up the three poles set around the ring to do one move or another. a lot of them also did some crazy tumbling runs.
there was an excellent 4-person club juggling act... which at one point included front-stealing 5 clubs, and two people flashing 6, though those weren't even the most fun parts.
there was a fabric sling act that was three very young girls-- ages 9-12 if i'm reading the program right. it was a decent act in its own right, regardless of their age (and among other things did a good job borrowing poses from static trapeze, as well as doing some more straightforwardly fabric sling stuff); but i don't think they'd featured kids quite that young in the past, so it was cool to see. they seemed to have a number of kids in that age range this year-- mostly in the partner acro type stuff, where they were being based by much larger kids who could more or less just pass them around, but still.
i was happy to see the acts not totally gender stratified: there was at least one girl who based a lot of partner acro, several who went up on pole, and the high cradle act (sort of like flying trapeze with a trapeze that doesn't move: one partner throws and catches the other), which at triton troupers was two extremely buff male bases and one (also really ripped, iirc) woman flyer, here was two girls. (the flyer might have weighed less than 100 lbs, but even so...) no male contortion this year that i saw, though there was a decent partner contortion routine with 3 girls and also a solo contortion/rhythmic gymnastics (ribbon) bit.
i missed the jumprope act, which ceelove said included a guy doing pushups over the double dutch rope.
i don't recall seeing silks, but there was a rope act. the choreography was deft but coming from silks it seemed almost deconstructionist: they'd do wraps that, in silks, would be the start of a setup for something, then hold them as poses, then slip deftly out of them into some weird strength-based hang or another. i feel like corde lisse has a different aesthetic than tissu, and this definitely showed that. :)
i don't do enough unicycling to really talk about how crazy the unicycle act was. they were jumping unicycles onto a trampoline and over obstacles on the other side, with tricks in the air on the way.
fun show!