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|  | | Sat, Jan 22, 2005, 2 pmFamily Fare |
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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, and 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 the live orchestral accompaniment of traditional Chinese instruments. Watching the Peking Acrobats perform is "like watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon live, without camera tricks creating special effects. When a show can fill you with the wonder of a 10 year old, you know you have had a good time," says Dance Insider.
Patron Information
Program Notes: Program notes are available online, click here.
Education and Community Events: Family Fare performance: Sat, Jan 22, 2 pm — children 16 and under half price.
Related Performances:
Dan Zanes & Friends
Cirque Éloize
Artists links:
Official Peking Acrobats site
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