The circus is coming the circus is coming: It is the extremely anticipated return of the newly reimagined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey The Biggest Present On Earth, coming to San Antonio this summer season on a North American tour, with six performances at The Alamodome from July 12-14.
A launch guarantees that the reimagined American icon will captivate audiences by means of a 360-degree immersive expertise that brings followers into the motion and the music, creating actual connections between audiences and performers.
Tickets go on sale on February 20. The circus additionally providing a Ringling Insider Most well-liked Visitor at Ringling.com for a pre-sale code to buy tickets early, which began February 13.
The tour represents the return of Ringling with out the usage of animals, a format it discontinued when it retired its elephants in 2016. Because the L.A.Timesnotes, its return with out animals is an element of a bigger development by which industries that had been constructed on animal cruelty and exploitation are redefining themselves for a extra humane future.
The brand new model returned to the highway in late 2023, that includes human feats with a globally various forged of 75 performers hailing from 18 international locations together with Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Ethiopia, Italy, Mongolia, Spain, Ukraine, and the U.S.
By no means-before-seen stunts embrace:
The Triangular Highwire, led by The Lopez Household, sixth-generation circus artists hailing from Mexico and Chile, takes the present to new heights with a never-before-attempted tackle the basic highwire. By re-engineering a circus favourite, three 25-foot-tall wires are related in a triangular formation with performers who triple the joy by leaping over their accomplice’s shoulders, using bikes on the skinny wire with performers on prime in a handstand, and extra unbelievable human feats.
The Double Wheel of Future is much more excessive with 4 acrobatic daredevils performing difficult back-and-forth leaps and somersaults atop two concurrently spinning apparatuses suspended 30 toes above the bottom and shifting at extremely excessive speeds.
Comedic Performances. Delivering humor in a brand new and surprising approach are Nick Nack and the Equivokee trio. Nick Nack, one of many present guides, alongside the trio from Ukraine, introduces a contemporary tackle clowning that leaves the make-up behind and focuses on delivering enjoyable by means of a comedic mix of Rola Bola, juggling, acrobatics, dancing, and extra silliness.
The Final Playground. A 360-degree modular efficiency space is the last word playground with colourful parts that evoke a toy field activated by the unbelievable athletics of the performers. It then transforms right into a skatepark as bikes soar by means of the air throughout a high-adrenaline excessive sports activities act. That includes a bunch of BMX riders, a trial bike, and an excessive unicycle, these riders carry out stunts on a novel trampoline field constructed within the heart of a take-off and touchdown ramp, the one considered one of its variety. Double-sided ramps enable the acute athletes to reflect one another with epic side-by-side bike stunts that embrace high-flying flips.
Criss-Cross Trapeze. 9 trapeze artists will ascend to the Criss-Cross Trapeze – the last word swing set consisting of 4 pedestals for this multi-directional act. The Flying Caceres will soar front-to-back, side-to-side, and diagonally with flyers and catchers in an action-packed, near-miss type act the place seconds and inches decide the end result of every high-flying ability. This unbelievable feat of timing will result in an in-act transformation, as two platforms disappear, permitting for extra daring methods and better rotations, together with a double-layout rotation from bar to bar, seen for the primary time in The Biggest Present On Earth.
Aerial & Acrobatic Spectacle. Solo and group aerialists will carry out aerial straps and hoops. Acrobats will leap, dive, and tumble throughout the present ground, with acts starting from Teeterboard, Hand-to-Hand Balancing, Hoop Diving, and Foot Juggling. Closing the present is the Ringling Rocket, that includes Skyler Miser launching throughout the sector to an unbelievable, inconceivable distance at 65 mph.
Report-Breaking Heights. Wheeling at spectacular heights will probably be Wesley Williams, the One Wheel Marvel, a Guinness World Report-setting performer who will try and set a brand new world file, using 10 completely different unicycles all through the present, together with one with six stacked wheels, an accordion-style unicycle that grows taller with every pedal rotation, and the tallest at an astonishing peak of over 34 toes.
Musical Performances. Music will embrace unique compositions, pop cowl tunes, and dwell rock-inspired drumming. Argendance, an lively, bombastic dance troupe from Argentina, will presents a fiery fusion of Boleadoras and Malambo that create dynamic moments alongside present information Stix, the rhythm of the present. The Melody Mixer, a novel and interactive second will characteristic audience-created musical content material included into the present, shocking followers.
Exhibits will probably be at:
July 12 at 7 pmJuly 13 at 11 am, 3 pm, and seven pmJuly 14 at 1 pm and 5 pm
