Thursday, June 24, 2010

CIRCUS SMIRKUS COMES TO THE BERKSHIRES


Circus Smirkus comes to the Berkshires with shows in Williamstown and Great Barrington

By KELLY BEVAN
Wednesday June 23, 2010

If you ever have attended a Circus Smirkus performance, there is a good chance you have caught a glimpse of 17-year-old Jamie Nanni several feet above the crowd dangling from silk fabrics and performing various acrobatic feats.
If you haven’t been privy to a Circus Smirkus event yet, then you won’t want to miss this award-winning international youth circus when it makes its way to the Berkshires in July by way of Williamstown and Great Barrington.
For four performances in each town, Nanni and her fellow Smirkus troupers -- ages 11 to 18, with the artistic director’s 6- and 9-year-old daughters performing, too -- once again will amaze audiences with their awe-inspiring, way-beyond-their-years circus talents.
Kristina Foley, the manager of development programs for Northern Berkshire Healthcare, whose company is sponsoring the Williamstown event, is counting on these young performers to draw families to the event for an evening of fun and excitement. She also is hoping the event will help raise awareness and funds for NBH’s REACH for Community Health programming.
"We were really looking for a way to do something that would reach out into the community to increase the presence of Northern Berkshire Healthcare, but also, in keeping with the mission of the hospital, to promote health.
"It’s youth, it’s active, they are kids in all shapes and sizes who
are obviously in tune to their physical well-being, and they’re in good health," she said. "I thought it was a good fit."
read more at: http://www.advocateweekly.com/familybeatmonthly/ci_15359081

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