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Happy World Circus Day from all of us at The Circus Arts Conservatory!

Please enjoy this incredible video from the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC featuring our Sailor Circus Students performing on the National Mall in Circus Sarasota's Big Top.

[Catalog No. CFV10953; Copyright 2017, Smithsonian Institution]
Producers: Hae-Yang Chang, Albert Tong
More Info: https://festival.si.edu/blog/wonder-i...

-Before the Folklife Festival, I had never been to the circus.

During the first day of shooting, the other camera people had already stationed themselves around the ring, so I slipped backstage to capture footage of performers getting ready. We were under the Big Top, and it was the Opening Ceremony.

It was the wildest cast I had ever seen: men on twenty-foot stilts, fire jugglers, steel drummers, heavily ornamented dancers, and handlers of giant, terrifying props. I watched them stand at the curtains, ready to go out. As each group was announced, they would jet through.

From offstage, I could only hear the fury of the performance. The musicians played full blast. The crowd seemed to be losing its mind. Only during the performers’ entrances could I catch a glimpse.

That wasn’t enough for me. I slipped through and ducked beside the bleachers at the front of the stage. What I saw then was a furious, fiery display of talent, and the most energetic performance I have ever seen. It was a wild exhibition of movement, music, tricks, and colors—a sensory explosion.

FINISH READING: https://festival.si.edu/blog/wonder-i...

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