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{:en}PRESS RELEASE (04/27/2017)

Sunday, April 30, a Loano, the appointment with “Loano rages for artists in the square.”, a street circus review promoted by the Departments of Social Services and Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the’Society of the Curious Association, under the artistic direction of Simone Peretti, under the project Storytelling workshop.

I San Josemaria Escrivà Gardens, Rocca Square and Palestro Square will be the scene of traveling performances, gags, aerial acrobatics, musical juggling, circus and juggling workshop, and shared readings. Alongside the professionals, children attending the circus course organized by YEPP Loano at “Invisible Cities” youth center.

The day of celebration will be opened at 15.30 from a colorful parade in the downtown streets of the artists and of the guys, which will take young and old alike into the San Josemaria Escrivà Gardens, where the Circus workshop edited by Uncertain Circus.

Children can try their hand at juggling (balls, plates, hoops, diablo, handkerchiefs, bolas, etc.) and balancing (ball, roller, tightrope) exercises. They will also be able to measure their courage with exercises on the aerial trapeze. Uncertain Circus, this is the name of the circus duo, was born from the professional union, and more, of Simone Peretti e Valentina Zingaro. He, an educator specializing in circus arts at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, She, an artist skilled in artistic makeup and circus arts, together form a duo that ranges from teaching to animation.

Always in the San Josemaria Escrivà Gardens, a space will be dedicated to reading with  What do you do? The focus of the initiative is the book “Bedtime Stories for Rebellious Little Girls. 100 Lives of Extraordinary Women.” By Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli.

Always at 15.30, in Palestro Square will stage the micro performance, for one person at a time, “The flea circus” by Valentino Chiara Trevisan. The world's only canned circus, the flea circus was conceived by Argentine puppeteer Horacio Tignanelli and presented throughout Europe by the Venetian-Piedmontese extravaganza Chiara Trevisan.

At 5:45 p.m, in the San Josemaria Escrivà Gardens, the acrobat Simone Tositori will present “Badabum shoo“ acrobat-comedy show, which will give the audience a succession of gags, vain attempts to climb and hang anywhere and an extraordinary aerial acrobatics act.

At 18.30, will close the day of street circus the performance of the Circus Dot in fortress square. On stage will be a mad object manipulator and an acrobat who will evoke the wonder of the circus. The show will combine manipulation and acrobatic dance with brooms, perils on the German wheel and balancing acts on the three-wheeled giraffe, all lit by the magic of fire.{:}

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