TEDxUSC - Troupe Vertigo and Nightmare and The Cat Performance July 11, 2011

Favorite:

Circus is about people working together, says Aloysia Gavre, cofounding director of Troupe Vertigo Circus Theater and Cirque School L.A. with Rex Camphuis. They celebrate the art of acrobatics as free of competition, a skill of incredible focus, and an unmatched adrenaline rush. Troupe Vertigo's circus style is to "place something very ordinary and mundane ... upon an extraordinary skill," Gavre explains, exemplified by their crowd-thrilling wine-pouring act.

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