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Paris Celebrates the Circus Arts of Tomorrow

by Meredith Mullins on February 2, 2015

Travel pleasure provided by Matthew Richardson, a circus performer with the cyr wheel, demonstrating circus arts at the Paris Circus of Tomorrow (Photo © Meredith Mullins)

American Matthew Richardson suspended in his whirling cyr wheel at the Cirque de Demain
© Meredith Mullins

The Cirque de Demain is in Town: The Best of the World’s Young Circus Performers

Jugglers. Contortionists. Acrobats. Who doesn’t love the circus arts—graceful whirlers, sure-footed balancers, and people who fly through the air?

Performers spinning, hanging, tumbling, climbing, somersaulting, diving, stretching, and moving their bodies in mind-bending ways.

The Circus of Tomorrow is in town—the 36th annual Paris Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. There are no lions or tigers clawing the air, no elephants laboring to lift themselves toward the tent top, no cartoonish clowns emerging from tiny cars.  Read more...

 

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