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City Parks Foundation Brings Free Circus to Brooklyn
As Part of SummerStage Kids International Contemporary Circus Festival Presented by Disney
Circus comes to Brooklyn as part of City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Kids International Contemporary Circus Festival. New Yorkers will be dazzled by Bollywood-style juggling, hoop diving and partner acrobatics shows specially designed to entertain all ages! The circus programs introduce New York City youth to contemporary circus, a growing genre that incorporates physical theater, dance and acrobatics.
The 2015 season marks the third year of SummerStage Kids’ focus on contemporary circus. Families will get the chance to see the best circus companies, from North America and beyond, make their mark in New York City as part of the International Contemporary Circus Festival. Brooklyn Bridge Park will again host two days of circus, this year with Swedish company Magmanus. With a vision to spread happiness and inspire audiences to follow their dreams, Magmanus combines impressive circus skills, humor, and audience interaction to create an unforgettable show. In Sunset Park, Hybrid Movement Company will present two works incorporating dance, acrobatics, and visual arts.
For more information on SummerStage Kids International Contemporary Circus Festival events, visit http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/events/category/circus/.
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Saturday, June 27
CIRCUS: Magmanus
Brooklyn Bridge Park, BK
334 Furman St
4PM & 7PM (two performances/day)
Sunday, June 28
CIRCUS: Magmanus
Brooklyn Bridge Park, BK
334 Furman St
4PM & 7PM (two performances/day)
August
Wednesday, August 12
Hybrid Movement Company
Sunset Park, BK
Playground area; 44th St. and 6th Ave.
10:30AM
Artist Descriptions
Hybrid Movement Company
The Hybrid Movement Company, a dance, acrobatic, and visual arts troupe, will present two works, Momentum and Are You the Dreamer? Momentum, a new piece, focuses on risk-taking perpetual movement driven by rhythms and flowing through melodies. It is performed in a powerful cohesion of Hybrid Movement, circus arts, classical and contemporary ballet, rhythmic gymnastics, bobbing, waving and popping. Are You the Dreamer? is a transubstantiated tale exploring beauty, ugliness, rejection, love, dreams, and fear through dancing and dynamic movement. The Hybrid Movement Company has been hailed by the New York Times as one of the most innovative Contemporary Circus Companies in the USA today!
Magmanus Company
Magmanus Company is a Swedish circus company founded in 2009 by the Franco-Norwegian duo Manu Tiger and Magnus Bjoru. With a vision to spread happiness and inspire audiences to follow their dreams, Magmanus combines impressive circus skills, humor and audience interaction to present a show you’ll never forget! In their current show, audiences will meet an angry, small but passionate acrobat and a foolish, gigantic yet so lovable juggler. Together they perform a show filled with jaw dropping skills and stomach turning comedy. Witness Bollywood juggling, unique teeterboard acrobatics, and a high-flying acrobatic grand finale.
About City Parks Foundation
City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. We work in more than 350 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of programs in an effort to promote healthy and vibrant communities. Our programs and community building initiatives reach 425,000 people each year.
About Disney
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. Being a good corporate citizen is a time-honored Disney tradition. Through contributions, collaborations with local organizations, in-kind gifts and volunteering, Disney helps to brighten the lives of kids and families in need and strengthen communities around the world. For more information visit, thewaltdisneycompany.com/citizenship or twitter.com/CitizenDisney.