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Wednesday, June 20 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Circus comes to Sisters in spring dance recital
dance students of all ages
performed as tightrope walk-
Correspondent
ers, dancing ponies, clowns,
America’s love affair with tigers, lions and more.
the circus has lasted for over
“I like to pick a theme that
200 years. It glitters with cos- will have a wide scope of
tumes, tastes like peanuts and creativity, and Under the Big
popcorn, and sounds like an Top lent well to that,” said
old-time calliope!
Lonnie Liddell, director of
Earnest Hemingway, a Sisters Dance Academy. “My
lifelong circus lover, once team of teachers and I met
wrote, “The circus is the only together to brainstorm music
ageless delight that you can ideas, dance-theme ideas,
buy for money. It’s the only and how we could bring
spectacle I know that, while those ideas together. The pro-
you watch it, gives the qual- cess was fun, creative, and
ity of a truly happy dream.”
collaborative.”
Last Saturday Sisters
The opening act with 14
Dance Academy students per- dancers (ages 12 and up)
formed “Under the Big Top” performing a Broadway jazz
on stage in the Sisters High number to “Welcome to the
School auditorium. The stage Circus” gave the audience
became the Big Top, the cen- a sneak peek of some of the
ter of the circus village where acts that dancers would be
performing throughout the
show.
It was a balance of
grace and flair when eight
stunning dancers per-
formed the number “The
Tight Rope” (in pointe 2)
as tightrope walkers, each
with her own parasol.
During the perfor-
mance things will happen
that are not usually pos-
sible: an animal trainer
surrounded by lions,
a man folding his
body into a small
case or jugglers keep-
ing seven balls in the air.
And in the Sisters Dance
Academy’s Big Top there
was a “tissue” act. Two
long strips of material
(“tissus” in French) hang
from the ridge of the cir-
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
cus tent. The long strips
Aerialist Kendall Knowles performed
of material in the Sisters
amazing feats before a rapt audience.
auditorium were silk and
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PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Nine- and 10-year-old tap students performed “Puttin’ on the Ritz.”
they hung above the stage
from a high beam with pro-
fessionally trained aerialist
Kendall Knowles at the helm
performing amazing feats in
the air while the spectators
held their breath.
Knowles, owner and lead
instructor for Central Oregon
Aerial Arts, has been per-
forming aerial arts for over
12 years and has a passion for
teaching students of all ages
and abilities.
“When I first saw Kendall
perform at the Central
Oregon Dance Showcase in
Bend several years ago, I was
awestruck by her amazing tal-
ent,” Liddell told The Nugget.
“She supports her own body
by hanging from a silk that is
tethered to a beam in the ceil-
ing. She has extreme muscle
control and beautiful grace.
We are so thrilled to have her
a part of our show this year.”
The last act before
intermission, titled “Popcorn!
Peanuts! Cotton Candy!,”
took the audience back in
time to the circus of years
ago. Eleven dancers per-
formed a Broadway jazz
number dressed as food ven-
dors carrying food trays and
exited through the auditorium
yelling out “get your pop-
corn, peanuts, cotton candy!”
The
team
of
See RECITAL on page 17