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What People Are Saying...
i love yall sooo much and i will miss yall! but definitely doing this next year! and one word to sum up this whole experience, G L I T T E R!! <3
-Julia Denise Dixon
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An audience member sent some kind words about a Seminole HS production of Carnival which incorporated the aerial arts as coached by Starfish. St. Petersburg Times, November 24, 2010:
"We had the pleasure of attending 'Carnival,' performed by the students at Seminole HS. Wow! Perfect choreography, singing, and staging. There were jugglers, puppets, unicycles, trapeze artists and gymnasts, plus a cast that could easily vie with professionals. Thank you Seminole High School, for a wonderful night." -Sally Donnor and George Konold
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Mandarin News Line in Jacksonville, Florida, covered our fall 2010 Starfish Circus at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Our second Starfish Circus at Douglas Anderson included 78 students and filled over 1200 seats with two sold-out shows!
Read the article by Starfish stage manager Danielle Wirsansky.
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The Fort McMurray Today wrote about our February 2010 Starfish in Alberta, Canada:
Circus camp setting up shop at Keyano College in February
by Daniel Nugent-Bowman
December 21, 2009
The circus is coming to town and you can be a part of it.
Street performance troupe Aerial Angels will be returning to Fort McMurray to run its Starfish Circus camp starting Feb. 20th throughout teachers' convention week at Keyano College.
The performers, who wowed audience at last summer's interPLAY, are hosting a camp open to the first 50 children from ages 5 to 17 to register.
"All the stars really aligned for this," Events Wood Buffalo executive director Claude Giroux said. "The kids are going to be off school for a week and we have access to the facilities at Keyano College because we're going to be there anyways."
Students will learn how to perform ground skills including clowning, acrobatics, contortionism, balancing, and juggling. They'll also get the opportunity to study aerial silk, hoop and trapeze artistry and tightrope walking.
"We cast kids in areas they're naturally drawn to, so that they're challenged but not discouraged," Starfish Circus director and Aerial Angel Allison Williams said in a press release. "We draw on our teaching and performance experience to help them learn clean, safe, well-executed skills (often in unison) instead of tricky or complex sequences."
But the biggest thrill for the students will undoubtedly be putting those new-found skills into practice.
The students are scheduled to perform an opening act number for the Angels' new show Stand Up Eight on the Keyano Theatre main stage as part of the Syncrude winterPLAY Festival Feb. 26 and 27 at 7pm.
"It should be a fantastic evening of circus theatre," Giroux said.
The cost of the camp is $279 for eight hours of daily training, equipment and costumes over the seven-day period.
Giroux believes those attending are getting a great deal. "We felt we wanted to make it as affordable as possible," he said. "Our summer camp is $375 for three weeks, but they're not with the kids as often and it's not as expensive of a show to do and we don't include lunch in the summer either."
Tickets are now on sale at the Keyano College box office.
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The Christian Science Monitor's feature article on Starfish Circus.
"It turns out you don't have to run away to join the circus. It will come to you. At the Jenison High School auditorium in Michigan, a three-ring circus is in full swing. Aerial artists, acrobats, contortionists, clowns, the lion tamer even the lion all are 18 or younger. Teens run the lights and the sound system. The only adult in the show is the one who plays the janitor..." read more
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My Southside Sun's story on Starfish at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.
"When she heard the circus was coming, Rachel Jones had her dad rig a 30-foot rope in the backyard of their East Arlington home.
She was so determined to hone her skills that she climbed it every day. That was last summer and now the 16-year-old junior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts is in intensive rehearsals for - ta dum - the circus..." read more
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The Lakeland Ledger's photo gallery of Starfish Circus at Pied Piper Players.
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