Pound, VA – Celebrating three decades of keeping American traditional circus alive, the legendary Bindlestiff Family Cirkus brings its diverse roster of the world’s finest circus, sideshow, vaudeville, and variety talent to the Wise County Performing Arts Center at J.W. Adams Combined School in Pound on Friday, March 20th at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 at the door. Children and students will be admitted free. For more information and to make reservations, please visit proartva.org. Come one, come all!
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus harkens back to the heyday of traditional American popular entertainment, offering its own contemporary twist. The show features jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, vaudevillian novelty, plate spinning, sword swallowing, and other risk-taking feats combined to create an interactive evening of fun for the entire family. It celebrates the roots of American popular entertainments like vaudeville, circus, and sideshow, with a mix of world-class skill and odd novelty acts that you don’t find in other types of circuses.
The New York Times called the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, “old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists,” while Time Out New York exclaimed that, “this troupe of circus artists will remind your family what the circus is really about.”
Since 1995, Bindlestiff has brought the circus arts to every type of stage and audience imaginable. Its shows range from family shows to musical parodies to burlesque Cirkus spectacles. Bindlestiff also has an eye on the future, keeping the variety arts alive via circus arts educational programs and emerging artist support. Bindlestiff’s performances on stages and festivals around the world have captivated thousands, including at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall, Glastonbury Festival, Super Giant Carnival in Thailand, Golden Festival in China, and Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This program is supported, in part, by funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
The 49th Pro-Art season offers an array of dance, from ballet and street to flamenco and Native American traditional, musical experiences that weave across genre, highlighting blues, jazz, beatboxing, old-time, Celtic and classical, the famed Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and theater and cultural programs to expand the palate and open the mind. Explore the season and reserve tickets at proartva.org. Season tickets can be purchased online, in person at any show, or by calling (276) 376-4520. Pro-Art is committed to making the arts accessible to everyone, if price is a barrier of entry to you, please contact us for available resources.
Pro-Art partners with a variety of venues, for accessibility inquiries or general questions, call (276) 376-4520 or email contact@proartva.org. For weather related updates, patrons are encouraged to check proartva.org for real-time information.
This engagement of Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is made possible in part through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, and Mountain Empire Community College.
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