Circus school grad leaving his mark in ‘Traces’
By Terry Morris, Staff Writer
from: www.daytondailynews.com
Saturday, December 3, 2011
DAYTON — Some boys grow up wanting to be play football.
Devin Henderson, 22, wanted to do circus, which was a family trait.
He’s getting his wish in a spectacular way as a performer in the atmospheric-acrobatic-“urban arts” production “Traces,” which opens in Dayton on Tuesday.
The hard-to-describe presentation set out in August from its home base in Montreal to tour just a handful of United States cities, including Dayton. Along the way, it got snared by New York, where a limited run off Broadway has been extended indefinitely.
So, another cast was assembled for places like Dayton and Costa Mesa, Calif., which is where Henderson came in.
He’ll be diving through hoops, climbing tall poles, jumping from one to another and pirouetting about the stage in a large ring for two weeks in Dayton.
Reached by phone in New York, where the cast coming to Dayton was wrapping up two precision-sharpening weeks in the show there, Henderson explained why he loves circus, which for him means a specialty in Chinese acrobatics.
“It’s so free. You have to be precise, but the thing I love is watching people do the same things in their own unique ways.”
When he was growing up in San Francisco, his brother was studying gymnastics when the family heard about a coach from China who would be training students for circus.
“My parents were drawn to that right away because it was more of an art form and less about the competition,” he said.
His older sister studied with the same coach, then he did and then his younger sister did, said Henderson, who graduated from high school and headed straight to Montreal to study at Canada’s National Circus School.
Devin Henderson, 22, wanted to do circus, which was a family trait.
He’s getting his wish in a spectacular way as a performer in the atmospheric-acrobatic-“urban arts” production “Traces,” which opens in Dayton on Tuesday.
The hard-to-describe presentation set out in August from its home base in Montreal to tour just a handful of United States cities, including Dayton. Along the way, it got snared by New York, where a limited run off Broadway has been extended indefinitely.
So, another cast was assembled for places like Dayton and Costa Mesa, Calif., which is where Henderson came in.
He’ll be diving through hoops, climbing tall poles, jumping from one to another and pirouetting about the stage in a large ring for two weeks in Dayton.
Reached by phone in New York, where the cast coming to Dayton was wrapping up two precision-sharpening weeks in the show there, Henderson explained why he loves circus, which for him means a specialty in Chinese acrobatics.
“It’s so free. You have to be precise, but the thing I love is watching people do the same things in their own unique ways.”
When he was growing up in San Francisco, his brother was studying gymnastics when the family heard about a coach from China who would be training students for circus.
“My parents were drawn to that right away because it was more of an art form and less about the competition,” he said.
His older sister studied with the same coach, then he did and then his younger sister did, said Henderson, who graduated from high school and headed straight to Montreal to study at Canada’s National Circus School.
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