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Wanderlust Circus - LIVE IN SALEM
The 13 Nights of Halloween and The Culture Shock Community Project Present:
The incredible WANDERLUST CIRCUS!
Fresh from the exotic wildes of Portlandia, comes a circus troupe from out of time...a show fun (and appropriate) for all ages!
Wanderlust features acrobatics, aerial performances, dancing, comedy, juggling, thrills, and just about anything you could hope to cram into an evening.
They will be performing LIVE at the Grand Theatre in Downtown Salem on Wednesday, October 23rd at 7pm.
Tickets are $15 for adults, and $10 for kids 17 and under.
100% of proceeds support the Culture Shock Community Project and the 13 Nights of Halloween community festival, both non-profit projects.
Tickets are on sale NOW through brownpapertickets.com
OR pick up tickets in person (Starting October 1st) at The Nest (241 State St) or either Venti's Restaurants (cash only at Venti's please)
Let's hear about Wanderlust in their own words:
The ways of the Circus are older than the nightclubs, older than the banks, older than the cities. These most ancient of performative traditions have always existed just slightly to the left of the Mundane World. Now, at the first flickering of the 21st Century, our piebald clan is once again shedding its skin and remaking itself in the funhouse mirror image of The Second Great Depression.
To aid and abet this latest glorious rebirth, Wanderlust has established itself as the premiere circus operation in The City of Roses, helmed by Noah Mickens and Nick "The Creature" Harbar, and drawing from a roster of performers, designers and technicians from all the greatest shows on Earth. Acrobats, aerialists, hand balancers, stilt dancers, trick ropers, jugglers and jazz-bos, crooners and clowns - these arts are our chosen creed, our map through the wilderness.
Ours is a story of an immortal carnie family blessed and cursed to live forever on the endless road that runs between all ports of call, past every sight and across every barrier. The logic of dreams pervades the spaces between the action onstage and the lives of the characters backstage, and from those artifices to the True World of performer and audience.
2011 marks the further refinement of our fabulist fairytale revue into a pair of new forms, like two faces on a tumbling coin. In both cases our new-broke trail leads Wanderlust Circus to a more complete synthesis with music - one embracing the breakneck madcappery of the 1920s novelty bands, one laying its root deep in the ecstatic ghetto of the Dubstep Massive.
THE WANDERLUST CIRCUS ORCHESTRA crashes and reels like a calliope freight train off the rails, weaving miraculous feats of skill through the extravagant orchestral warp of our prodigious band. Tap-dancing sax king Shoehorn is featured alongside frenetic frontman William Batty, sweating and sighing through standards and originals in the Spike Jones fashion while the finest circus and vaudeville acts in the Pacific Wheel Circuit show off their explosive best. Bring grandma and the kids - all are welcome at the font of joyous panic.
For more information about the 13 Nights of Hallowen, please go to www.13nightsofhalloween.com
For more information about Wanderlust Circus, go to www.wanderlustcircus.com
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LocationThe Historic Grand Theatre (View)
191 High Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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