PEKING DREAMS Set for State Theatre, 11/6

The National Circus and Acrobats of The People's Republic of China were founded in 1958, and since that time the company has been dedicated to the innovation of and excellence in the circus and acrobatic art. It has produced a large number of excellent circus and acrobatic acts with distinctive Chinese national style and characteristics. Direct from Beijing, the pioneering troupe brings its unique show "Peking Dreams" to the State Theatre on Friday, November 6.

Show time is 7:00 PM. Tickets are $30 and $15 for children 12 and under and can be purchased by visiting the State Theatre Box Office, 453 Northampton Street, Easton, by calling 1-800-999-STATE, 610-252-3132 or online at www.statetheatre.org. Each child's ticket comes with a coupon for a free concessions item.

The National Circus and Acrobats of the People's Republic of China 2015 tour of North America will feature "Peking Dreams," which features many impressive circus and acrobatic acts such as hats' juggling, diving through rings, bicycles, feet juggling with

umbrellas, unicycles, adagio of four and grand martial arts and so on. The program also includes traditional circus acts like hula hoops, balance on high chairs, aerial silk, solo trapeze and rope tricks (lasso) commonly featured under the circus tent. This production was performed for the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and has been performed for more than 600 shows in front of more than 400,000 people in China, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The company's Juggling Benches with Feet won gold medals at the 11th World Acrobatic Championship in Britain in 1986 and the 10th Cirque de Demain Festival in France in 1987. In 1990, it again won the Gold Medal at Korea's "Spring of April" Art Festival together the company's other act of Hula Hoops. The act of Balance on Double Planks won the Silver Clown at the 14th Monte Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco in 1989. The act of Aerial Silk won the Silver Medal at the 5th China Wuhan International Acrobatics Festival in 2002. In October 2003, at Second Brazilian International

Acrobatics Competition, the company won the Golden Award with the act of High Chairs' Stacking which also later won the Golden K medal in Monte Carlo at the 17th

Premiere Stage International Circus Festival in February 2005. In 2006, the Balance on High Chairs received the Golden Elephant Prize at the sixth Moscow International Circus Festival. In 2012, the company again won the Golden Medal at the 2nd International Circus Festival in Spain and Silver Medal at the 6th International Festival of Circus Art in

Russia. Many other acts of the troupe were also rewarded gold medals, silver medals and other prizes at the national acrobatics and magic competitions in China.

In recent years, the show productions of the company like "City of Springs" and "Peking Dreams" have been highly praised by domestic and international audiences. Many of the Company's acrobats were employed by Cirque du Soleil to perform the Lasso in Tokyo Disney's Cirque du Soleil Theater for more than two years and by the French Cirque's Arlette Gruss national tour in 2014. In 2000, the Company's Grand Girl Bicycle was also performed for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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