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Monday, May 16, 2005 - San Diego, CA
FERN STREET CIRCUS Brings ALICE Back To BALBOA PARK In An ALL NEW SHOW ~ THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -- Friday, MAY 20 through Sunday MAY 29 - 12 Performances Only!
San Diego's own Fern Street Circus promises to send you whirling into a mirrored world where Alice becomes part of a battling Chessboard full of delightful and demanding creatures; as they present their Fifteenth Annual Show in Balboa Park. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS will play twelve performances only, Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 29 in the classic open-air ring in Balboa Park at Park Boulevard and Presidents Way.
Fern Street's Artistic Director Cheryl Lindley continues to combine San Diego's own homegrown and topflight Circus talents with the whimsy of Lewis Carroll's classic tales. In this second in the series, Alice begins the chess game as a pawn and grows in knowledge gained from some surprising sources until she takes over as the Queen of a topsy-turvy world filled with never-ending surprises, yet familiar from all our childhoods, made enchantingly visual and physically challenging.
Storytelling reaches new levels as Lindley and the company use non-verbal, athletic circus skills to send the audience into Alice’s battles on the inexplicable Chess board with its confounding playing pieces, bringing to life the Caterpillar, Jabberwocky, TweedleDum and TweedleDee and all the familiar characters in ways never imagined before. Through the Looking-Glass features exciting acrobatic battles and marching flags, multiple aerial artists performing chiffon and lira, Ottavio Canestrelli’s classic unsupported ladder routine, comedy balancing, marvelous illusions and a magic act. Returning favorites are juggling, tumbling, contortion, twirl sport/knife spinning and clowns, clowns, clowns. A perfect day for the entire family!
The company includes:
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Michael Ahmann (Red Castle)
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Ottavio Canestrelli (Blue King, Jabberwocky; 8th generation circus family)
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Bobby Hartman (Red Bishop; from San Francisco's Make*A*Circus)
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Ariel James (Spanish Web)
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Ron Leschinski (TweedleDee)
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Cheryl Lindley (Blue Queen, Columbina)
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Shane Lindley (Red King)
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Corky Lindsey (TweedleDum; Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus/"Chicago Kidz")
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Annetta Lucero (Red Queen; four time world twirlsport champion/FSC resident choreographer)
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Martin Raabe-Lopez (ZootSuit Tramp)
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Joseph Runyon (Blue Castle)
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Tommy Stansell (Chess piece)
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Rebecca Starr (Caterpillar & twin spinning Mirror)
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Kristi Taguchi (Aerial Magic & Big Illusions)
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Molly Woltman (Twin Spinning Mirror).
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There will again be multiple Alices’s, played by Sadie Lindley-Kessler, Jenny McConkey and Cathryn Stansell;
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and an entire kickline of kid bugs from the Fern Street circus’ celebrated after-school circus arts programs.
Cheryl Lindley (director, costume design) has been featured with Cirque Novae , Cirque de la Mer, Cirque Fantastic, Balagan, and il Circo; in Kuala Lumpur, Montréal, Mexico City and at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Her costumes are in the permanent collection at MCASD and were seen at MOCA/LA. Co-artistic director/Fern Street Circus with Don Victor in 1990. Also directed Archie and Mehitabel (Seattle Rep), Technomania Circus (SD/Burning Man), Commedia Players (SD). The staff includes award-winning four time Irish Champion drummer Dave Page (Musical Director/ Percussionist), Pietro “Pop” Canestrelli (Senior Acrobatic Coach, seventh generation circus performer), Garry O. Irvingwhite (Associate Director, “Clown Otis,” Greatest Show on Earth, Universoul Circus), Wendell Kling (Set designer/ Stage manager), Don Covington (Administrative Director/Producer, NY's Big Apple Circus), and Laura Stansell (Executive Director/Producer).
This year’s performances take place at Park Boulevard and Presidents Way in San Diego's beautiful Balboa Park.
Performance schedule: Opening Night Gala Friday, May 20 at 6PM, performance at 8PM; Friday, May 27 at 8PM; Saturdays, May 21 & 28 at1PM, 4PM and 8PM; Sundays, May 22 & 29 at 1PM and 4PM. Nonreserved, festival seating for all shows. Tickets: $14 Adult, $7 Child, available by phone, online via website, at ARTSTIX or at the door. For information or to order tickets, call 619 235 9756; fax: 619 231 7910; or on the web at www.fernstreetcircus.com.
Fern Street Circus' Through the Looking Glass Neighborhood Tour 2005:
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Saturday April 16, City Heights Urban Center
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Saturday April 23, Chicano Park Fiesta
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Sunday April 24, Encinitas Street Fair
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Saturday May 7, Rice Elementary School, Chula Vista
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Saturday May 14, Youth Expo 2005, Oceanside
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Sunday May 15, Chula Vista Taste of the Arts (workshops only).
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