Boom Town: Cirque Mechanics' cutting edge circus coming
By Donna B. Stinnett
Evansville Courier & Press
Posted February 17, 2012
When Cirque Mechanics brought its "Birdhouse Factory" show to Henderson Fine Arts Center two years ago, the audience noticed right away that this wasn't your typical stage show.
It involved contraptions, aerial apparatuses and a whole troupe of contortion artists, acrobats, clowns and mimes inhabiting an unconventional industrial setting.
This time, when Cirque Mechanics brings "Boom Town" to town for the final show of the Henderson Area Arts Alliance's performance season, the rules are the same but the setting has changed.
The audience will see acrobats climbing up swaying telegraph poles, dancing on a swinging chandelier, flying high and fast on a revolving crane, flipping and jumping on moving ore carts and balancing on whiskey jugs.
"With Boom Town we have all the cutting edge circus of 'Birdhouse Factory,' but this time our story is told in a mining town in the 1880s," said Chris Lashua, creative director for the Las Vegas-based troupe made up of former members of other well-known circus companies including Cirque du Soleil.read more:http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/feb/17/boom-town-cirque-mechanics-cutting-edge-circus/
It involved contraptions, aerial apparatuses and a whole troupe of contortion artists, acrobats, clowns and mimes inhabiting an unconventional industrial setting.
This time, when Cirque Mechanics brings "Boom Town" to town for the final show of the Henderson Area Arts Alliance's performance season, the rules are the same but the setting has changed.
The audience will see acrobats climbing up swaying telegraph poles, dancing on a swinging chandelier, flying high and fast on a revolving crane, flipping and jumping on moving ore carts and balancing on whiskey jugs.
"With Boom Town we have all the cutting edge circus of 'Birdhouse Factory,' but this time our story is told in a mining town in the 1880s," said Chris Lashua, creative director for the Las Vegas-based troupe made up of former members of other well-known circus companies including Cirque du Soleil.read more:http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/feb/17/boom-town-cirque-mechanics-cutting-edge-circus/
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