Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Dynamic Trio
Sunday, March 24, 2024
2:00 PM Performance
Pfleeger Concert Hall
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is bringing its diverse roster of the world’s finest circus, sideshow, vaudeville, and variety talent to Rowan University! With Dynamic Trio, three multi-skilled artists perform dazzling juggling displays, interactive audience participation, gut busting comedy and edge-of-your-seat daredevil feats, including a real live sword swallower. These world-class performers can also be found on stage in productions by Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Brothers and on Broadway. Whether you're a child or a child at heart, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Dynamic Trio offers fun for the whole family!
Runtime is 60 minutes with no intermission.
Banner images: 1-Keith Nelson by Maike Schulz; 2-Aerial Emery; 3-Kyle Driggs at the Slipper Room, NYC
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KEITH NELSON
Keith Nelson learned to juggle and eat fire at Hampshire College in 1989. Following college he moved to New York City and became a professional fire eater. Since then, the variety arts—circus, sideshow, clowning…—have become his life. Keith swallows swords, spins tops, juggles plates, balances glasses, and manipulates just about anything. In 1995 he co-founded Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a national touring troupe and performing arts organization. Keith has toured with circuses, carnivals, and sideshows. He has also been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with James Corden, OZ (season one)…. He is the professor of circus arts. From New York, to the Caribbean, to China, and across the United States, Keith has taught thousands of people to juggle and balance objects, and entertained millions more. http://www.bindlestiff.org
KYLE DRIGGS
Kyle Driggs is a circus performer who specializes in a unique fusion of juggling, object manipulation, movement, and theatrical persona. While he developed an early interest in circus arts, his career began nine years ago at the esteemed École Nationale de Cirque de Montréal. Upon graduation, Kyle performed an array of renowned circus shows, with a stint as a soloist in Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway run of Paramour as well as The Seven Fingers off-Broadway hit “Queen of The Night”. Much of his newer work, however, concentrates on the avant garde in an effort to explore the bounds of contemporary circus arts. With a focus on experimental stage setting, immersive narratives, and the physical orchestration of common objects, Kyle’s work strives for the convergence of a modern aesthetic and high technical skill.
AERIAL EMERY
Born into a circus family, the circus arts have always been a part of Aerial's life. She started performing at age 7, and was immediately in love with the stage. For nine years she trained at Xelias Aerial Arts, and performed all over the United States. She spent her summers touring with Circus Smirkus, the international award-winning youth circus. Aerial also trained and competed as a rhythmic gymnast, always most passionate about the hoop. Sick of competing, she decided to take the hoop to the circus stage, combining traditional hula hooping, dance, and rhythmic gymnastics to create a unique hula hoop act. She graduated in 2013 from École de Cirque de Québec, specializing in hula hoops and cyr wheel. Since graduation she has toured with the Midnight Circus, the GOP Varieté Theater in Germany, Broadway's “Pippin the Musical” with the 7 Doigts de la Main and Australia's Strut n Fret.
About the Marie Rader Presenting Series
The Marie Rader Presenting Series at Rowan University brings exceptional artists to campus, enriching the university community and the Greater Southern New Jersey region through expanded performing arts programming, bolstering a robust academic program in dance, music and theatre. Every Marie Rader engagement not only brings an artist to campus to perform, but also offers transformative coaching opportunities for Rowan students, and meaningful exchanges with community partners throughout the region.
Because of the Marie Rader Series, you don't have to travel to New York or Philadelphia to see some of your favorite, most influential leaders in dance, music, theatre and beyond. This series is also designed to introduce you to artists you wouldn't otherwise encounter-- artists who reflect not only the future of performing arts, but who help us envision a better world, right now, right here in South Jersey.
The series is made possible in part through generous support from the Henry M. Rowan Family Foundation via the Marie Rader Memorial Fund and through funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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