The UniverSoul Circus, billed as the only African American-owned circus in the world, is performing at the Capital Plaza Mall in Landover Hills, featuring slam-dunking acrobats, high-wire walkers, dancing dogs and, yes, elephants dancing to R&B. The show's appearance in Prince George's County is a rite of spring.UniverSoul, world's only African American-owned circus, has poodles and passion
By DeNeen Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer
By DeNeen Brown, Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 22, 2010
There is the damp mist of spring in the air and the voices of children and the aroma of funnel cakes sprinkled with powdered sugar. There is the promise of white tigers, dancing poodles, elephants and acrobats flying, pale-orange scarves trailing. The sweet, sticky smell of cotton candy blows over the huge expanse of blacktop at the Capital Plaza Mall in Landover Hills, turning the crummy parking lot of what someone once called the loneliest mall in the area into a fairy tale, with a big top under which one can expect to find happiness. If for only a couple of hours.
There is the damp mist of spring in the air and the voices of children and the aroma of funnel cakes sprinkled with powdered sugar. There is the promise of white tigers, dancing poodles, elephants and acrobats flying, pale-orange scarves trailing. The sweet, sticky smell of cotton candy blows over the huge expanse of blacktop at the Capital Plaza Mall in Landover Hills, turning the crummy parking lot of what someone once called the loneliest mall in the area into a fairy tale, with a big top under which one can expect to find happiness. If for only a couple of hours.
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