fuckyeahcircus:
This is awesome.
This is a pretty excellent example of some of my problems with modern circus. This girl is absolutely amazing, yes, but most of the audience doesn’t react to the parts of her performance that take the most talent and strength and skill—such as her climbs, or the way she swings into the tricks, etc. Instead, they applaud for her flexibility and, most noticeably, whenever she pauses. This is why there shouldn’t be any pauses in circus, in aerial. The audience takes their cue to applaud from the performer, so the performer should remove all cues. No performance should be a mindless gift from performer to audience, all softness without edges or barbs. Don’t indulge your audience in their complacency: challenge them to see and to think. Barb your performance.
