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Nyack Circus Story On Silver Screen

from: nyacknewsandreveiws.com
February 15, 2012
Nyack, Feb 15 — Tonight’s premiere of Runaway Circus at the Nyack Center is not too different from the real life story of the director of the Amazing Grace CIRCUS! “I ran away from college in 1972 to join the circus because it was a lifetime dream,” said Carlo Pellegrini, director of Nyack’s youth circus program. “With all of the hardships and all of the wonderful moments, it was the perfect year.” Tonight you can take a peek under the Big Top that Pellegrini brought to Nyack in 2009 and see the struggles and triumphs of a new generation of performers in Runaway Circus, a short documentary by filmmaker Angela Snow.



The film shows how Amazing Grace’s troupe of 12 teenagers learned the ropes to battle the rains, the mosquitoes and the bureaucracy to put on performances for 4,000 fans in Nyack’s Memorial Park. “They created magic under the stars for two and a half weeks,” says Pellegrini. “And they were rewarded with the magic moment of self-discovery… confidence beyond imagination, respect for themselves and the everlasting memory of creating something from nothing
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