Wow!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to see our show “Speak Easy” this weekend! Saturday night was packed, a completely full house! We had a ball performing for you all.

We have put up a bunch of pictures taken by (our web designer, photographer) Kenneth Feldman over in the Visual Gallery. Check ‘em out!

Also, Lauren Wissot from Slant Magazine has posted a fabulous review of “Speak Easy” over on the Slant Magazine website.

We’ll have some more pictures coming real soon, and we’ll also have video from the show (shot by Milner Ayala) as soon as it’s ready.

Thanks again! We really appreciate the support,
The Suspended Cirque Team

The audiences at Suspended Cirque’s 12 Acts of Christmas contributed $496.99 to the Salvation Army bucket during the performances. We wrote and sent a check in that amount to the Salvation Army in the days after the show.

Thank you to everyone for their generosity!

More 12 Acts of Christmas pictures by Lauren at FairytaleVegas can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fairytalevegas/sets/72157623117618452/

“Take a dash of burlesque, a scoop of modern dance mixed with classic ballet, plenty of candy cane-colored costumes, some sultry cabaret lighting, a rocking score stuffed with updated versions of holiday standards, sprinkle generously with vaudeville, then toss it all up in midair and you’ve got “The 12 Acts of Christmas” presented by Suspended Cirque, the sexiest troupe of aerial performers on the other side of the Hudson. I trekked through a blizzard to get to the warm intimate setting of the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO for the only evening performance of their winter spectacular this year. (The weather outside was frightful but that dominatrix Santa sure was delightful!)”

Read the rest of this article here:
Better Than Santa: The 12 Acts of Christmas

Josh, Ben, Angela, Kristin, Michelle, Uri, and Kenny…
(AKA: The Cast of Suspended Cirque)

…would like to thank the almost 200 people that came out in the blizzard last night to see the 12 Acts of Christmas Holiday Show!

And there are two more exciting performances today, (Sunday, December 20) at 3pm and 7:30pm.

We’d love to share this show with you, too!

Performance, location, and ticket info here.

Hope to see you there,
The Suspended Cirque Team

Lauren Goldberg of Fairytale Vegas has sent us a batch of beautiful images that she took of our Across The Water performance in May of 2009.

Take a look at all of these fantastic shots here.

There may still be some tickets available at the Trapeze School website. Come watch performances by daring aerialists, courageous trampolinists, jugglers, unicyclers, high-flying trapeze artists and more!

Trapeze School New York Vertical 3-Ring Circus
Saturday, October 10 at 8PM
Sunday, October 11 at 8PM

Directions here.

The beauty of watching live performance lies in bearing witness to art unfolding right before your eyes. And “Urbanopolis,” Suspended Cirque’s latest site-specific, aerial creation at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO delivers just that. The show is a low-budget indie Cirque du Soleil from its burlesque chick acrobats to its hula hoop skirts, to the shreds of newspaper dangling from a hoop descended from the ceiling, proving that heart and creativity trump dollars and glitz every time.

Not that “Urbanopolis” doesn’t contain its fair share of glamour in its tightly wound four acts. The production is more like a sex bomb who doesn’t have to try too hard – secure in the knowledge that she’s the hottest girl in the room. This confident and gifted troupe of aerialists and musicians breezily have a blast making the audience of mostly bar tab-happy hipsters – seated both in the balcony above and in red booths on either side of the walkway that divides Galapagos Art Space’s signature ponds – giddy as little kids at the circus.

Right from the opening of Act One a metaphorical striptease begins, with the bodies of three female “Serpents” (the multi-talented Michelle Dortignac, Angela Jones and Kristin Olness) writhing and their hair flailing to a heavy metal groove in an air-born interpretive dance on rigging high above the walkway. What’s slowly uncovered is a magic world in which flying acrobats in sleek red, green and blue reptilian bodysuits meld seamlessly with an eclectic mix of music emanating from live piano and violin below, and a DJ booth in the balcony above. From evocative red and blue lighting, to candles and glow-in-the-dark yoyos, from well-placed glitter to pink and blue wigs, the magic of theater is organically revealed. And its sense of fun and play, the company’s sheer exuberance is contagious. (Even the DJ watched in awe during Act Two’s slapstick routine in midair, not to mention at the sultry duo on a rope whose four legs would have been right at home wrapped around a stripper pole).

By the time the third act rolled around, with Joshua Dean’s Pan, as delightfully wicked as Fosse’s Emcee, performing a Chaplin-esque number with balloons (appropriately titled “Playtime”) and its “Bacchanalian Decadence” set to a sampling of “Funkytown,” the friend I’d brought along could no longer curb his enthusiasm. “This is like Fischerspooner and Cirque du Soleil inside “Cabaret”!” he shouted. But the most hypnotically breathtaking scene of all was yet to come, when the vivid costumes and lighting and toned bodies transformed into a single entity – a human chandelier – on a spinning hoop halfway above the stage, like a children’s toy come alive. (Or like that old “Twilight Zone” episode in which the contents of the toy box becomes animated – only this time in Technicolor.)

Sure, we all know that everything Fred did, Ginger did backwards and in high heels. But everything Martha Graham’s protégés have done, Suspended Cirque is doing in midair. Dance only gives the illusion of flight. “Urbanopolis” is the real deal.

Article link here