National Arts Festival: Urban Circus - Where big city dreams can come true
The urban landscape has higher peaks. It is where people learn how to exceed their own limits. The saying goes, ‘It’s a jungle out there’, but in Daniel Buckland’s vision of the Urban Circus, it is a community of fellow dreamers who meet to work just as hard as they play. In the city as a circus, you see how dexterous people can be. They not only meet higher and higher demands whilst hanging upside down, but they also do spins on a trapeze with one hand holding up a book or lipstick or broom.
Live performance elevates our hopes and dreams and makes our bodies tingle with the feeling that anything is possible, indeed. When a group of nine highly trained performers dance together in bouncing unison and lift their smiling arms to invite everyone to bob in their seats as well, a feeling of euphoria can wash over a room full of over 900 people. On opening night in the Guy Butler Auditorium, it was certainly difficult not to tap a foot or clap both hands.
The show has manufactured a meeting between the art of theatrical clowning along with the pageantry of people performing gravity-defying feats. This circus brings the extravaganza home in a way that makes it seem within anyone’s grasp to fly if you put in the work.
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