
#BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS PROFESSIONAL#
It provides after-school and summer youth circus arts training programs, produces the NYC Regional American Youth Circus Organization festival and the NYC Unicycle Festival, and supports emerging and professional variety artists who are contributing to the revival of interest in the circus arts today.īindlestiff celebrated the diverse world of circus arts through up-close and personal creative community engagement at the 2017 Folklife Festival. Learn to Juggle Walk a Wire Clown Around Ride a Unicycle March on Stilts Build a Human Pyramid Bindlestiff’s Cirkus After School programs use skills like juggling, stilt walking, tumbling. The show features juggling, wire walking, fire eating, target bull whip, a bed of nails, sword swallowing, unicycle feats and much more. Bindlestiff co-founders Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu present a Grand Cirkus Spectacle. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus alternates between making semi - annual tours. These Bindlestiff Family Cirkus performers will take you down the carnival midway and into the Big Top for a night. In 2004, Bindlestiff instituted its children’s performance program, the Cavalcade of Youth. went under canvas, and the one the original Pickle Family Circus used when. Smith Elementary School ASP and Hudson Dept. Acrobats, jugglers, sword swallowers, novelty dancers, rope spinners, aerialists, musicians, clowns, and other uniquely creative characters have all been a part of Bindlestiff’s intimate spectacles in circus big tops, spiegeltents, theaters, and festivals around the world. Bindlestiff Family Variety Arts Profile and History. Learn to juggle, throw a diabolo, use stilts, spin plates, and practice tumbling, acrobatic balance and more with Amy Chen and Stephanie Monseu from Hudson’s very own Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. Through its broad beginnings and drawing from its passion for circus history, Bindlestiff has been a bridge between traditional and contemporary directions in American circus as well as a hub of evolving creative process.


Co-founded by Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu, Bindlestiff presented it first Cirkus Cabaret in 1995 in Brooklyn. Photo by Maike Schulz, courtesy of Bindlestiff Family Cirkusīindlestiff Family Cirkus prides itself on being an heir to New York City’s outstanding traditions of circus, sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque. We celebrate tradition while maintaining an irreverent spirit. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus was founded in 1995 by Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu. Adam Kuchler, Stephanie Monseu, Keith Nelson, and Ekaterina Sknarina performing with Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. We cultivate, develop, and sustain the circus and variety arts.
