HARLEM HAPPENINGS: Summer on the Hudson: PlayDate with Kae Burke of Lady Circus

Date: August 13, 2011
Come have a family play date with your children and their friends at this outdoor kiddie party featuring a children’s performer, arts and crafts, and neighborhood fun!
8/13 – Kae Burke of Lady Circus
Lady Circus infuses every performance with feral exuberance and stylish extravagance. Stiltwalking is redefined as the art of stiltdance, and aerial is reformatted into raw, heated displays of inverted dynamism. Glasswalking becomes transcendent, fire dancing becomes revelatory, and sideshow becomes main show in this effusive collaboration of expression and aesthetics. Hoops spin in the air (as lyra), on the ground (as the glittering tool of nouveau hoop dance), and in between (as caught in between rhythmic gymnast jumps and contortions). Belly dance and other forms of sinuous grace weave fluidly throughout.
Mixing culturally relevant narrative with blindingly gorgeous costuming and interactive improvisation, Lady Circus both pierces and transports.
Start time: 1:00 pm
End time: 4:00 pm
Contact phone: 311
Location: West Harlem Piers Park