CircusFest - Circolombia
From: Wednesday, 7th April 2010
To: Sunday, 16 May 2010
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Our Review:
26 April 2010
Compagnie XY's Le Grand C, the latest act at the Roundhouse's Circusfest, combines dazzling acrobatics with distinctly low key execution. A giant, moving pyramid of bodies is created in near darkness, and staggering leaps, flips and tricks are performed with the same nonchalance as a walk across the stage.
Tricks overlap each other with no drum roll or fanfare to distinguish or announce them. This means that the audience’s attention is not signposted and instead we have to decide where to place our attention. This helps create the privileged feeling of watching a warm-up or a rehearsal. You might find yourself completely engrossed by a performer who is securing his belt, rather than watching the far flashier three-man tower being discretely built in the corner.
The joy and spectacle of acrobatic circus is discovering the extraordinary and usually unexplored potential of the human body. Compagnie XY neatly encapsulates this idea with the human towers they bu...
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