For the millions who have delighted at Cirque du Soleil’s gravity-mocking feats, the core of the spectacle has always been the performers. Those slick, seemingly effortless acrobats reinforce a very ...

The 20th China Wuqiao International Circus Festival opened Sunday in Wuqiao County, north China's Hebei Province, marking the first time the event's main activities have been held in the country's ...

The dangerous and exhilarating sport of acrobatics has a long history in China BEIJING, May 14, 2010 — -- Balanced high on a single bicycle, 20 Chinese girls contort themselves into knots. A ...

Students practice acrobatic skills at the Diao's Troupe acrobatic courtyard in Sangyuan Town, Wuqiao County, north China's ...

Curious about circus skills, but want to look a little before you leap? Seattle’s School of Acrobatics New Circus Arts (SANCA) offers an introductory two-hour class that features a sampling of the ...

Thousands of years ago Chinese people created toys out of household items such as plates, jars and chairs, which they spun, juggled and balanced. Today this ancient art form is preserved by groups ...

A unique fusion of Western Classical Ballet and mesmerizing Chinese Acrobatic Arts. The Acrobatic Swan Lake has dazzled sold-out audiences around the world and is now returning to London this Summer ...

Watch thrilling feats of aerial and ground acrobatics, dance, juggling, and more at "Spring-A-Ding-Ding Cirque-tacular" at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 11 in the Martin W. Kappel Theater at the Chenango ...

Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase caused an uproar when it was first exhibited in New York in 1913. He’d painted Western art’s first sexless nude: overlapping bodies depict the human figure ...

Since 1990, Orlando Weekly has served as the free, independent voice of Orlando, and we want to keep it that way. Becoming an Orlando Weekly Supporter for as little as $5 a month allows us to continue ...

Detail of Kanthy Peng's "They Won’t Go" series, which includes life-size inkjet prints of boulders and nods to the abandoned "harborette" still sometimes visible at low-tide at Coronado. Shown in an ...