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Peking Acrobats

Sat, Jan 22, 2005, 2 pm

Venue: Zellerbach Hall

Price: $22/$30/$42

Subscription Series: Choose-Your-Own, Winter World Stage Mini-Series

In China, acrobatics is a rich and esteemed art form — delicate and masterful, athletic and entertaining — rooted in more than 2,000 years of history and folk tradition. The Peking Acrobats are their country's very finest — an elite troupe hand-selected from China's best gymnasts, jugglers, cyclists, and tumblers whose dazzling displays of contortion, flexibility, agility, and control routinely amaze sold-out crowds wherever they perform. Their remarkable feats — daring balancing maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs, treacherous wire-walking, and powerful precision tumbling — are all performed to live orchestral accompaniment by traditional Chinese instruments. Watching the Peking Acrobats perform is "like watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon live, without camera tricks creating special effects," says Dance Insider.

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Program Notes: Program notes are available online beginning one week prior to performance.

Related Performances:
Dan Zanes & Friends
Cirque Éloize

Artists links:
Official Peking Acrobats site



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