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World class body act
It is the first season after the global cold and the elephants at Cirkus Arena: Lara, Djungla and Jenny they traveled to Knuthenborg Safariparki to retire. Cirkus Arena focuses more on the artists, e.g. Steven Ferreri dancing on a tightrope, as easily as when the rest of us walk on the ridge of a roof. If we are chimney sweepers.
I am fascinated by people who have the ability and will to control their balance on a sublime level that I myself have never been close to. It is fundamentally beautiful to see people using the body's art of movement on a high level.
But I don't think that's enough. Circus Arena is running on the last fumes, the cash register has been periodically quiet for some time, and the cirkus have lost their original attraction: The wild animals and the ladies with beards.
Can the circus find new ways?
It's amazing how talented the artists are in this year's show in Cirkus Arena. Over the past 50 years, all the exotic animals in the circus have become plank steak in Denmark. The lions. The seals. The elephants. The dromedaries. They drew the audience into the tent, they were spectacular, fantastic. The wild animals sold tickets, it's over. Even further back, it was the bearded lady and the Siamese twins that people came to see.
Today, Cirkus Arena has raw manpower with great artistic competence that creates world-class body art. The circus has the children's clown Jimmy Folco, who has some of the nicest and most human-friendly body language - both children and adults understand him immediately. But it's not enough, and a former TV host from the 90s who runs around missing his bathtub doesn't make matters any better.
Highlights of this year's show
David Hammarberg from Sweden does elegant and poetic aerial acrobatics. Julie Berthelsen sings while he climbs high up, stands in split at a height of 8 meters, and curls back down. He has just been on Sweden got talent.
Jimmy Folco is a clown with a long Italian history in the profession. His father was a clown. His grandfather was a clown, etc. Good, skilled clowns. Folco has great body language and he's funny - even if he longs for the old days when the artist family traveled together and lived together. He misses the wild animals, he says, and the sound of 3,000 children laughing. At the premiere in Aarhus, there were maybe a few hundred people in the tent, maybe 50 children. There will be more in the coming days, I guess, where the time of the performances are more family-friendly than Friday at 17. But there is a long way up to those 3,000 children.
Los Ortiz - the wheel of death is a scary act. There are no safety lines, safety nets or airbags on the floor. If the boy from Colombia falls down, as has previously happened with the wheel of death in Cirkus Arena, he is going to get hurt badly. But it's a nice act where the circus artist plays with centrifugal force and gravity. Great, but can it continue in a reality where the Danish Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires 5 wheels on your desk chair so that you don't fall over and hit yourself? Don't think so.
Los Ortiz - 7 person balance on the line - whoa, then the airbag came on the floor. Nice, but circus also loses some of its attraction when the artists neither risk being bitten by a lion nor breaking their bones like Tetiana Korenieva in Cirkus Arena 2018. Great act otherwise. Six men balance on a steel wire with a woman at the top of the human pyramid. And she was secured with a fall line too, thank you for that. I have such bad nerves, I like airbags and fall lines.
Steven Ferreri on a tight line. He dances. He does somersaults. He exudes so much masculine power through his feminine movements. Very beautiful.
Duo Costache has strong teeth. Strong neck muscles and back. Strong wills. They lift each other up in a way that the Danish Labor Inspection Authority simply cannot imagine. But the Costaches also have a graphic poetry. They are both strong and impress with their choreography.
Dear Berdino, bathtubs are out of fashion, you should find something new, I think
Thank you for a great experience, I love your circus. May I suggest for 2024: Let go the bathtub pilot and replace him with nouveau cirque and with sports circus as a supplement to the high-flying artists. And stick with Folco if he wants to continue. I am happy for the clown, he gives heart to your circus.
Ambiorn Happy, Kulturnyt.net
★★★★★★
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