Ten years ago, Kari Podgorski did what many people aspire to do: She joined the circus. "Oh, do we have to use that cliché?" she objects through a smile. Besides, Teatro Zinzanni, where she is ...

Northwestern alumna Leslie Buxbaum Danzig (Communication ‘07) examines existential questions through circus theater in her original play, “Quest,” opening at The Actors Gymnasium in Evanston Saturday.

Aerial acrobatics are nothing new for Kenna Stevens, but taking flight as the new head of Santa Monica Trapeze School has been her most daring descent yet. In April, Stevens was handed the management ...

Alice Dustin, 72, likes to get high. Not on drugs or alcohol. But on the flying trapeze at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts (PSCA) in Germantown where, twice a week, the Ardmore grandmother ...

Hidden in Georgetown’s gritty factory terrain is a big top, of sorts. A warehouse contains a world of colorful tutus, leotards and tights. Multiple trapezes hang from the ceiling, along with ropes, ...

Santa Barbara Trapeze Co. is an aerial arts and acrobatics school focused on empowerment through movement, from flying trapeze and aerial silks to parkour and circus arts. (Courtesy photo) LEAP: Learn ...

Nate Lavers took his first swing at trapeze while on a date 10 months ago. While the relationship didn’t last, he continued to learn the art of swinging from the apparatus — a short horizontal bar ...

Unique space for a unique group: The Runaway Circus performance troupe needed a place that could accommodate acrobatics, juggling, aerial arts and general mayhem. So they’re opening Toy Boat for the ...

Hurry, hurry, hurry. That’s what you have to do if you want to see “Circus in Progress: An Evening of Daring New Work” on Sunday, May 30. The Actors Gymnasium show has sold out for the past three ...

Lora Kapelczak’s active and competitive lifestyle in her youth gave her the skills she needed as an adult to carve her own identity as an aerial acrobat performer and teacher. The Ramona resident was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Australian contemporary circus act Casus Creations brought its show "Apricity" to Spoleto this ...