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Waterfront Museum presents
CIRCUSundays 2009 - Red Hook
Sunday, June 07, 2009 through Sunday, June 28, 2009
CIRCUSundays brings family entertainment on board an historic showboat moored in Red Hook, Brooklyn featuring performers from around the globe. Every Sunday features an entirely new show!
Length: 1 hr 15 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
Family Entertainment in Red Hook, Brooklyn aboard the historic Showboat Barge #79.
Two shows daily! June 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th, at 1 & 4 pm
CIRCUSundays in June, New York's acclaimed little big top at sea now launches its 13th successful season of bringing professional performers from around the globe to Red Hook every Sunday in June. Hosted by Artistic Director Karen E. Gersch aboard Captain David Sharps' beautifully restored Barge, the shows offers old-time family entertainment and classical circus artistry. Every Sunday boasts an entirely new roster of acts.
The Waterfront Museum & Showboat Barge, Pier 44 is located at the corner of Conover and Beard Streets, across from Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
CIRCUSUNDAYS 2009 ROSTER OF PERFORMERS
JUNE 7
ILKA LICHT - Juggler. Fanciful footwork finessed with style; a veteran of Germany's finest cabarets.
KENNY KOOL - Handbalancing Bravado from Amazing Grace Circus. Grace and power combined.
EL MAGNIFICO - The World's Worst Magician and his Meddling Assistant. Comedy rife with illusion!
SOPHIE BURD-SHARPS - Solo Trapeze. An inventive new number from the crowd-pleasing "Mermaidens."
KENNY LICHTMANN - The debut of an aerial strap act created at the National Circus School of Quebec.
JUNE 14
LUKE WILSON - English Juggler: a classicist with clubs. Mad precision and lyricism in one.
HILARY SWEENEY - Creates inventive aerial acts using dance, humor, and occasionally, laptops.
AMRAM LINKOV - Traditional handbalancing artistry on rola bola in an untraditional style.
AMI HATTAB - "Turkish March"- the quintessential maestro of his own cheeks. Slapstick meets classical artistry!
JUNE 21
BILLY BONES THE GOOD PIRATE - Back by popular demand - our Jerry Lewis of the High Seas!
ALICE SHI - The grace and elegance of a champion gymnast who has taken to the air.
WILL SHAW - Comedy Juggler, a,k.a. Vice President of the United States, he manipulates objects of his own desire.
JUNE 28
DIKKI ELLIS - Clown Prince of the Slackwire, finds magic in a mere ping pong.
LI LIU - Award-winning acrobat from Chinese National Circus and Ringling Bros. presents a dazzling Risley act and her signature one-armed hand balancing.
HILARY CHAPLAIN - Brooklyn's finest & world-traveled Clownesse, out of each well-choreographed cacophony of chaos, she steps lithely like a ballerina.
JOSHUA DEAN - From Twyla Tharpe to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, his aerial artistry has earned him accolades throughout the country.
There is plenty of street parking. Parking for CIRCUSundays is not allowed to use the Fairway Parking Lots.
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