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Review: Bianco, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Cardiff-based NoFit State Circus return to their home city with their latest production, Bianco Turning Savage

 

Bianco will be at the Wales Millennium Centre until Saturday
from:  walesonline.co.uk
By Jessica Best
2 May 2013
It’s hard to know where to begin to describe Bianco – the latest show from NoFit State Circus.

The breathtaking production at the Wales Millennium Centre was my first experience of the Cardiff-based circus performers, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

Firstly, you get to get to see the fantastic WMC in a whole new way, as you’re ushered onto the pitch-black stage and watch the show standing among, underneath and in-between the performers.

Then, out of the darkness, the magic begins. For two hours, the circus’ unbelievably talented cast leap, fly, jump, twist, turn and swing through the air, in a show that is as baffling as it is beautiful.

Five women hang suspended from ropes, rag-doll like, high above your head, before plunging towards the floor as the length supporting them unravels.

A glamorous blonde in a red sundress, straw hat and sunglasses takes to a tightrope in red high heels, before ripping off the shoes, hat, shades, and dress – all while balanced on the razor thin wire.

A man sails over the audience on straps which such grace and ease that the audience’s initial shock at his sudden appearance is replaced by an awed silence.
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