Set inside the mighty stars and stripes big top, Circus Vegas brings together all the traditional circus elements you might expect, plus Vegas-style show girls in scintillating costumes and feather boas.
Opening on Wednesday with an Elvis look-alike, dancers and a hoop artist, the clown, complete with cow boy hat, soon has audience members on stage doing impromptu dance routines.
The highlights include an aerial artist, hanging elegantly from a chandelier, metres overhead. She later performs with aerial silks, demonstrating complex gymnastics whilst flying angelically, supported only by silk wings.
Later an ‘old lady’ with a Zimmer frame wants a turn in the limelight. But of course there is a time machine.
She emerges youthful and embarks on further transformation in an instantaneous dress-changing routine. The first half finishes with two motorcyclists speeding scarily around a ball.
The second half sees with the sky wheel duo running around the spinning wheels, sometimes with skipping ropes or blind folds metres high.
There is a strong man outsmarting the wheels of a van. The finale is the high wire performers who fearlessly cross the wire by bike and on each other’s shoulders, without a safety harness.
As part of the Brighton Fringe, The European Entertainment Corporation Ltd have created the appearance of a grand scale affair, but there are actually only fifteen super-human performers (no animals).
You come to expect a high standard of risk taking stunts from the circus, and Circus Vegas delivers on all counts - dare-devil stunts, tradition, variety, and glamour.
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