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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 29, 2019
Volta brings back the full death-defying Cirque du Soleil experience

The ever-present danger is as much a part of a Cirque show as the spectacle.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Volta, Cirque du Soleil, Jean Guibert, Yann Arnaud, stunts, circus

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 26, 2017
Prepare to be dumbstruck by Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia

The company’s latest spectacular is “a waking dream of Mexico” as mind-bestirring as it is surreal.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, United Center, Cirque du Soleil, Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Julie Hamelin, Salon Mexico, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, circus, circus arts, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Guy Laliberté, Gilles Ste-Croix, the Greatest Show on Earth, Picasso, Chagall, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, Simon Carpentier, Martin Labrecque, Angelica Bongiovonni, Enya White, Cyr wheel, trapeze, acrobats, clowns

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2016
Chicago Book Expo, Pop-Up Magazine, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

Fun Home, Handmade Market Chicago, and more happenings from November 11-13.
- By Isabel Ochoa Gold
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Out of This World, Circus, Chicago Book Expo, Jonathan Giles, Revival, Pop-Up Magazine, Robert J. Gordon, Handmade Market Chicago, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, National Museum of Mexican Art, Yollocalli, Chill Set

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 12, 2015
Recommended
Cirque du Soleil is thrilling again

With Kurios: The Cabinet of Curiosities the troupe puts the focus back on the jaw-dropping talents of humans, not eye candy.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Cirque du Soleil, Kurios: The Cabinet of Curiosities, United Center, circus, Sarah Guyard-Guillot, Andrii Bondarenko, Facundo Gimenez, Gabriel Beaudoin, Christopher Chatham, Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge!, The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 4/6: Windy City Gay Idol, A Space Odyssey, and Eleventh Dream Day

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday April 6
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, American Idol, The Voice, Windy City Gay Idol, LGBTQ, Sofo Tap, Mayne Stage, CircEsteem, A Space Odyssey, Alternatives, circus, Eleventh Dream Day, Riot Now!, Hideout

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2013
Queen of the Air: The greatest circus story ever told

Dean Jensen has written the first biography of Leitzel, the circus's greatest star.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Books, This Will Kill You, Arts, Leitzel, Lillian Leitzel, Alfredo Codona, Alfred Pelikan, Dean Jensen, circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, aerialist, Victoria Codona, trapeze, Milwaukee Institute of Art

Music, Music Sidebar Sep 15, 2011
Brilliant Corners

The new Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements festival presents Dan Deacon, Shellac, and some actual clowns
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Brilliant Corners, circus, vaudeville, Bill Callahan, Sidi Toure, Bomba Estereo, Cave, A Hawk & A Handsaw, Charles Bradley, Dark Dark Dark, Shellac, Cloudbirds, Hollows, B.S. Brass Band, Magic Carpet

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2011
Video
Mucca Pazza: The Movie

The Kickstarter video for Daniele Wilmouth's Mucca Pazza film "Marching Banned" is so entertaining, you really do want to watch them ask you for money.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Music, Daniele Wilmouth, Mucca Pazza, circus, punk, marching band, marching banned, kickstarter, Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Peter Carpenter, Eleanore and the Timekeeper, dance, choreographer, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2010
Bleak Geek

Damn everything but the circus!
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Wild man, circus, albino, Madagascar, county, Pleasantville, Oscar Graham, ee cummings

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2010
Wilding

Not all wild men worked in a circus
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Circus, wild man, rape, confession, lynching, mob, law enforcement, sheriff, jail

Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2010
Offal performance

There are limits to what even the marks will put up with
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Wild man, circus, liver, carnival, geek, mob, violence

Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2010
Fra Leppo Nippy

Wild is as wild does
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Circus, carnival, wild man, geeking, race, bite, biting, Wild Men of Borneo, P.T. Barnum, Leppo, lightning

Blogs, Bleader Jul 27, 2010
Loco Vore

"Eat bugs" commandeth the Lord thy God.
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Wild man, circus, law, locust, Leviticus, grasshopper

Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2010
Geek Chic

You had to have a screw loose to work as a geek
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, carnival, circus, doctors, geek, pain, steel plate in head, surgeon, tusk, wild man, Wild men

Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2009
4/6 -- Circus class

Free circus skills class for adults Monday at CircEsteem.
- By Nicholas Teddy
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Uptown, circus, CircEsteem, juggling, clowning, stilts, stilt-walking, trapeze, spinning plates, plate spinning

Arts & Culture, Theater Critic's Choice Jul 20, 1995
Alegria
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Critic's Choice, The Cirque du Soleil, Alegria, Acrobats, Contortionists, Jugglers, Tumblers, Circus, Cityfront Center

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