“Genius” said the New York Times, and our audiences agreed.  Jamie Adkins brought the house down at MTYP with his astonishing dexterity and side-splitting stunts in Typo.  As brilliant as his last, Jamie’s new show won’t just dazzle you, it will melt your heart.  Circus Incognitus is about having the courage to try new ideas, pushing them to their limits and not giving up when all goes wrong.  This gifted acrobat and clown has been invited to perform with Cirque de Soleil.

“This aaah-inspiring show will delight and amuse you, no matter what your age.”

- Winnipeg Free Press (Typo)

April 2010

April 21

Charlottetown, PEI

Mainstage Theater

April 23

Sommerside, PEI

TBD

April 24

Sydney, Nova Scotia

TBD

April 25

Saulnierville, Nova Scotia

Salle Marc Lescarbot

April 27

Fredericton, New Brunswick

The Playhouse

April 28

Fredericton, New Brunswick

The Playhouse

May 2010

May 01

Oakville, Ontario

Center for the Performing Arts

May 02

Mississauga, Ontario

RBC Theater

May 19-23

Vancouver Festival

Mainstage Theater

May 26-29

Okanagan Festival

TBD

www.jamieadkins.com

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means “jubilation” in Spanish, are many. Power and the handing down of power over time, the evolution from ancient monarchies to modern democracies, old age, youth—it is against this backdrop that the characters of Alegría play out their lives. Kings’ fools, minstrels, beggars, old aristocrats and children make up its universe, along with the clowns, who alone are able to resist the passing of time and the social transformations that accompany it.

London, ON – John Labatt Center

From November 12 to 15, 2009

Montreal, QC – Bell Centre

From December 18 to 30, 2009

Québec, QC – Colisée Pepsi

From January 5 to 10, 2010

Montreal, September 16, 2009 – La TOHU general manager Stéphane Lavoie is pleased to announce the appointment of Nadine Marchand as project director for the Festival international des arts du cirque de Montréal. This new event will be an international celebration geared toward local audiences, tourists and circus professionals alike. The first edition is planned for next spring or summer, and the Quebec circus arts sector will be consulted shortly, along with the Montreal culture and tourism community.

Check out this story from the United Kingdom, BBC.

“Complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain, according to scientists at Oxford University.”

Link to story

A zany medley of circus acts, comedy, and electrifying music!

It’s a high voltage circus troupe …

It’s a dynamite rock band…

It’s four guys…

Armed with a bicycle, a ladder, a barrel, a board, and some balls, four eccentric characters meet on stage and try to outdo one another in a contest of increasingly outrageous antics.

An hour with “Les Parfaits Inconnus” is an hour of sheer delight, with comedy, acrobatics, “unbalancing” acts, juggling, and music that will rock your soul.

Laughter and thrills guaranteed!

From Canada, The Russian Bar Trio is born from the circus company Cirque Eos. The performers, Marco Dieckmann, Christine Bédard and Yves Gagnon have performed over a thousand shows in the 5 last years.
Here is a great video of one of their performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Link: ellen.warnerbros.com

Some consider a handstand to be challenging enough, others take handstands to an entirely different level. Yoga practitioner Dharma Mittra has mastered the unsupported headstand, while Norwegian, Eskil Ronningsbakken stands on his hands in places where most people wouldn’t dare stand on their feet. Eskil has performed many of his artistic stunts in various places around the world, including Kenya, Nairobi, and Norway. What do his parents think? When asked this, Eskil replies, “My mother would be screaming at me to come down all the time, but my dad would be saying “Wait a minute, let me take a picture first!”.

Interested in learning more? Check out Eskil’s website: http://www.globalbalancing.com/

and, read about his many endeavors:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170514/Dont-look-The-incredible-daredevil-balances-edge-1-000ft-cliffs.html#ixzz0STPM0QLb

Circus Training For Fitness – The Handstand
By Matt Roben

Have you ever seen a fat circus performer? And no the Fat Lady doesn’t count! With all of the circus out there these days we have all been to one or at least seen Cirque du Soleil or Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus. And what is the first thing that you notice when you are at the circus? Just how incredibly strong and amazing the performers are in regards to balance and coordination. Circus performers train their body through constantly working to improve their strength, flexibility, stamina, balance, hand-eye coordination, you name it- if it takes bodily skill, they are doing it. And most of the circus performers I know do not lift a single weight, unless they are trying to build a certain body look for their particular performance style.

So how do most of these people get in the shape they are in? It goes without saying that they spend hours a day working on their particular specialization. But if you break it down, they are mainly doing repetitive…

I found this amazing tango silk act and couldnt take my eyes of it, so beautiful and passionate, this act is from the show AIResTANGO in 2005 by Cathy Gauch, Aircat Aerial Art. Music: Milonga del Angel by Astor Piazolla.

Montréal – 16/09/2009 For the 13th edition of the “Journées de la Culture”, the population is invited to visit Cirque Éloize backstage. On September 27th, Cirque Éloize will open the doors of its creative studios. The visitors will have the opportunity to have a guided tour of the Gare Dalhousie, to participate in circus workshops with the collaboration of professional artists, to watch clips from the shows, to discover unpublished creation pictures of Cirque Éloize’s shows as well as the chance to attend an exclusive performance from Daniel Cyr, Cirque Éloize Co-founder and inventor of the Cyr Wheel!