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Tradition is honored, of course. There are first-rate aerialists, teeterboard balancers, trick bicyclists and lots of clowns. But what the gifted Canadians are presenting is less a conventional succession of circus acts -- there are, for example, no animals -- than a wondrous flow of fantasies, produced with all the drive and coherence of a Broadway musical...
Artistic Director Gilles St. Croix and Choreographer Debra Brown drill the cast regularly, not just on the complex movements involved but also on the artful commotion as one act swirls into the next. When the teeterboarders have finished (for some marvelously zany reason, they appear as penguins carrying briefcases), their boards must be danced lightly out of the ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger...
...more settled here than anywhere, strange as it sounds. It's like joining a family." Moira Loter, bareback rider, aerialist, jackie-of-all-trades: "I've lived in a house. You always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according to the alliterative program, as "jaunty juggling juggernauts displaying dazzling dexterity": "This is what my father taught me to do. This is what I do." Bautista's daughter Patricia...
...young bisexual designer, Bob (Murray Head), finds himself the fulcrum of a sexual teeterboard. On one side sits his lover, a Jewish doctor named Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch). At the opposite end is his mistress, the haggard divorcee Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson...
...fired from a cannon almost simultaneously. In the South, the Red company's program includes Sweden's "Unbelievable Lindstroms," who ride the high wire, all three of them balancing from a single unicycle; Bulgaria's Silagis, generally acknowledged as the world's most dazzling teeterboard act; and Gunther Gebel-Williams, a wild-animal tamer so impressive that Irvin Feld spent $2,000,000 to buy out an entire circus (belonging to Gunther's then mother-in-law) just to land...