acrobatics

THEATER: MACHINE DE CIRQUE will leave you breathless!

By Joyce Kulhawik|2016-09-25T23:27:26-04:00September 25th, 2016|Dance, Music, Theater, Visual ART|0 Comments

I'm exhausted. A few nights ago I watched 5 French Canadians called MACHINE DE CIRQUE high on guts and testosterone, hurtle through 90 minutes of breathtaking (mine and theirs) acrobatics, juggling, and jocularity using bicycles, trapezes, seesaws, unicycles, ropes and poles, scaffolding and towels--yes towels--which may have been most breathtaking of all. The towels were all that kept them from being in the "all together" and me [...]

THEATER: TRACES, RECONSIDERING HANNA(H)

By Joyce Kulhawik|2014-10-07T23:32:35-04:00October 7th, 2014|Theater|0 Comments

RUSH to see TRACES--a vibrant gorgeous troupe of Canadian circus performers known as LES DOIGTS DE LA MAIN-- or "Seven fingers of the hand." It won't take you long to get a handle on them. Hanging by the slimmest of theatrical threads-- they're supposed to be locked in a shelter during what might be the apocalypse, trying to make the most of their [...]