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1 This is not full descriptions and I highly apologize that it is not voice recorded. Everyone at Kingston Circus Arts has been so busy getting a new studio up and running and working on this show and we did not have the time that I had hoped. It is a huge priority for us to offer some access though, so here is our best shot at a cabaret that was put together in two weeks, with local and out-of-town artists, as a fundraiser to help with start up costs and making Kingston Circus Arts more accessible. No audio describers were available and there was not time for me to do creative audio description. What this is, is each artist s brief synopsis of their act, in their own way. Some creative and some more standard. We welcome feedback and hope to do better each time. Sincerely, Erin Ball Owner of Kingston Circus Arts Miranda Tempest - Aerial Hoop Music begins with a fast, syncopated drum beat, electric guitars soon join and Miranda Tempest enters, clad in a long black waist coat, copper shiny romper underneath, and high, bright orange ponytail to top it off! Miranda removes the coat, takes a swig of water..it s obvious very hot out..and proceeds to spin up on the aerial hoop, performing dynamic, twisting sequences punctuated with splits and backbends. She pauses in the middle of the act to wipe her brow with a mysterious cloth that was previously hidden in her cleavage.. A spin hanging from the bottom of the hoop comes out of nowhere, ramping the energy up to its maximum as the routine ends with one final sequence before Miranda comes down off the hoop and picks up her water bottle from

2 earlier And proceeds to dump the contents on herself as the music ends..turns out that water is actually of the glitter variety.. Silk Road Carnival - Bellydance Bellydancers Nicole and Danielle are dressed in black flare pants and black coin bras accented with pink coin belts and cat ears. They start the dance with hip drops to the music followed by sassy, undulating bellydance movements. They take turns interrupting the music with sharp and soft hip and chest moves, arms moving to frame the body, and then being dancing in unison. Turns and hip shimmies extenuate the fast parts. During one fast part, Nicole takes a little break behind Danielle s back and sneaks a swig from her hip flask while shimmying, spilling a bit on herself. As the music slows, Nicole rejoins Danielle and the sassy dance moves continue in unison until they end with a teasing pose! Carolyn Shelley - Hula Hoop Carolyn begins walking toward the centre of the room shrugging her shoulders and bouncing a hula hoop in front of her. She brings the hula hoop up and rotates it before moving it from side to side, sliding it between her hands. She then twirls the hula hoop on one hand while walking in a slow circle. She brings the hoop up above her head with a small spin. And again with a larger spin. then twirls the hoop behind her body then allows the hoop to drop around her body to end with the hoop resting on its end on the ground to the side of her body. Carolyn then flicks the hoop so it spirals up her body and catches it in her hand. She twirls the hula hoop above her head. She brings the hula hoop down and spins it on her waist. She moves in a circle while spinning the hoop on her waist. She lifts the hula hoop off her waist and up above her head, then back down to her waist and continues moving the hoop up and down from her waist to above her head several times.

3 Carolyn circles the hoop horizontally around her body passing the hoop under her legs which kick out in front of her. She twirls the hoop in front of her then around the top half of her body. She then circles the hoop vertically in front of her passing the hoop under her legs which kick out in front with bent knees. She spins the hoop vertically around her shoulders. She spins the hoop vertically around her bum. She then folds the hoop in towards her body and spins the hoop up over her head and behind her back then in front of her body, pausing with the hoop held outstretched in her right hand to the right of her body. Carolyn then rolls the hoop from right to left across her chest, catching it and twirling it in her left hand. She bumps the hoop against the side of her body then rolls it back from left to right across her back, catching it in her right hand. She twirls the hoop, bumping it against her body then spins the hoop with one hand, isolating the movement of the hoop in one spot in front of her. She then spins her body, keeping the hoop in the same pace. She holds the hoop with two hands and moves it in a circle around the top half of her body while moving her body in a circle as well. Carolyn moves to sit in a straddle position, moving the hoop, held vertically in front of her from side to side. While holding the hoop in her hand, she twists her body to move from a straddle to a forward split. She twirls the hoop above her head while holding the split. She then turns to bring her legs together in front and rolls backwards over her shoulder to her knees. She continues to spin the hoop above her head while she stands up, facing forward. Carolyn bring the hoop down in front of her body and circles the hoop horizontally around her body, passing it from hand to hand. She twirls the hoop and spins it around one leg that is lifted out in front of her. She twirls the hoop behind her back, passing it from one hand to the other while twirling the hoop vertically. She passes the hoop behind her back and turns her body to the side. She tosses the hoop under her arm, catching it in front of her. She spins the circles the hoop

4 around her body, passing it from hand to hand. She passes the hoop under her leg that is outstretched behind her. She continues passing the hoop in a circle. She passes the hoop, catching it with her foot which she then circles around behind her, passing the hoop from her foot back to her hand. She ends in a handstand position. Emma Aslett - Aerial Silks I begin hidden behind the silks, when music starts I throw them open then reach my hands up to grab the fabric. I am wearing a teal retro bathing suit and a flowered diving cap. I climb by scooping up the fabric with one leg and crossing it over the other. I do three climbs. With the two fabrics separate, I put knots at my feet by wrapping each leg and stepping back on to the fabric. I quickly drop into a straddle before turning to one side and lowering into a split. I roll over twice then move the fabric to my back and hook one leg above me, with the other extended, arching my back. I do one roll in the opposite direction and end up with an X across my back. I then lower very slowly to a knee hang and grab the free fabric to create a back bend. I take my footlocks off then climb once before wrapping my feet and sitting into a butterfly position with my legs. I raise my arms like a diver and dive forward. I tie a knot in the free fabric then stand out of my seated position and push the fabric out with my arms and legs to make a box shape. I drop straight down to my armpits then swing and go upside down. I climb the fabric with my arms and do a front dive drop. Mike Williams - Spoken Word I have short brown hair. I have a moustache and beard.on that day I will be wearing my glasses a red and grey striped shirt and blue shorts. I use a silver pair of crutches to support myself and to walk. Heili Kopamees - Aerial Silks Climbing, spinning, wrapping one leg, hanging upside down, arching back, foot to head, undoing leg wraps, wrapping fabric around waist,

5 drop! Undoing all wraps, climbing, wrapping both legs, splits, balancing, going upside down, leg wraps, upside down, drop! Undoing wraps, climbing, spinning, upside down, sliding down. Bob Mackenzie - Poetry Bob is a large man but not tall, about seventy, with white hair, goateestyle beard and mustache. His hair is pulled back in a ponytail, and he has bushy eyebrows over blue eyes. He is wearing tan shorts, sandals, and what he calls his trademark black straw hat and "fire shirt", a black shirt with a pattern of flames around the bottom. Bob will put on rose-tinted glasses for reading. He is holding several sheets of paper on which are printed the poems he will read tonight, so you may hear some shuffling of papers between poems. Ellie and Kate - Duo Pole Britt Howlett - Static Trapeze A trapeze artist hangs by one arm on the trapeze bar, the other arm holding her legs. She reaches up to grab the bar with her other hand, and pulls her body through her hands until she is upright again, hanging from the bar with both hands facing the other way. She releases one hand, which swings her body around in a circle. With her free hand, she grasps her opposite arm and pulls herself up so her body is now parallel to the ground. She spins and hooks her right leg on the bar. She pauses with one leg crossed over the other. She sits up on the trapeze, throws one leg over the bar and grabs the rope across from her to twist it into an X. She inverts, throwing her right leg over one side of the X and sits up over the X to pause. She does a back circle in the ropes and slides down so her left knee is hooked over the X, and pauses. She swims her right leg through the gap between the bar and the X and lets it join the left leg, before grabbing the bar with both hands and popping herself out of the X to land on her hips on the bar. She lifts her chest so her whole body is a straight line parallel with the floor, and throws her arms forwards so she spins around the bar twice in a ball in a forward rotation. She stops and hooks both knees over a rope, and spins down so one leg is hooked on the bar, the other crosses her knee and goes under the

6 bar so her foot hooks the bar. She grabs the bar with both hands and reaches her left foot up the rope, and extends her left leg first in front, then behind her, making large shapes with her body. She hooks her right foot under the bar by her left hand to contort her body in a crossed shape, and pulls herself up so that she is only hanging by her armpits. She swings her legs back and forth high, and circles backwards around the bar onto her hips. She stands on the trapeze with her back to one rope. She reaches her arm under one rope to hold the whole trapeze away from her body, which floats in mid-air. She hooks her left foot between the bar and rope and slides her back down the rope into a flexible shape. She hooks her right leg over the rope and pulls herself up into splits. She replaces her left foot on the bar with her hand, holding herself like a flag. She slides down the rope and ends with her back on the bar and right leg on the rope. Jane Kirby, Erin Ball, David Parker and Emma Aslett (and the whole cast) - Hoop with severed feet attached to it is rolled in and around. Tentacles on toes, tiny feet on toes, huge feet and furry kitty feet on prosthetic feet. Tentacles and kitty feet are upside down and legs are pulled off. Around in a circle, hands on thighs, upside down. Climbing with the severed feet hoop. Another climbs with a severed foot hoop. Tossing the hoop, spinning the hoop. There are two aerial fabrics. One person goes down then they are both on the same fabric. Grabbing hands, trust, drop. Hanging by one arm. Catching! Wrapping! Drop! Confetti Feet. Chris Stroesser - Fire Poi Chris is spinning two wicks that are lit on fire and attached to two chains that are about two feet long. He spins one, and then the other and then both. He moves quickly, to the music. Spinning, weaving, flowing, arching, spirals.