Event

Circus Contraption at the Bug Theater in Denver

Circus Contraption, Seattle's premiere one-ring traveling circus, will delight its fans and friends with a rare visit this September. The troupe, acclaimed by press and audiences alike since 1998, will unveil a few of the freshest fruits of their collective creativity as well as proffering a potpourri of presentations proven popular in the past. Its a rare summer treat not to be missed!

Circus Contraption is a collective of multi-talented artists mixing traditional circus skills such as aerial performance, acrobatics, and juggling with physical comedy and live original music, inter- twined to achieve a distinctive vaudevillian style. Their amazing circus orchestra, known for its darkly carnivalesque musical renderings on three CDs, has its own fans the world over. Their most recent full-circus show, Grand American Traveling Dime Museum, was a smash hit three years running in Seattle, San Francisco (2004) and New York City (2005 & 2006). Circus Contraptions effect on the audience-- rousing, mesmerizing, and frequently unsettlingcreates a deliciously unforgettable live experience.