New York City's Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Gets Funding to Provide FREE Holiday Entertainment

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New York City’s Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Gets Funding to Provide FREE Holiday Entertainment

Around the world, local and national governments are funding and supporting more holiday entertainment than usual this season to uplift audiences’ spirits and bring joy during a time that is still strongly associated with the pandemic. These funds allow artists and companies to offer their shows to the public for free.

Supported by the New York City Department of Transportation, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presents the Frostbite Follies Holiday Borough Tour,featuring circus, music, and more to entertain outdoor audiences across the city. From December 4 through 12, Frostbite Follieswill continue the fun that started with this summer’s Flatbed Folliestour, this time with a holiday twist: world-class performers on a fabulously festooned, parade float-style proscenium stage.

New York City’s most acclaimed and longest continuously running circus company has done much to bring live entertainment to the neighborhoods hit hardest by COVID and to help keep circus and variety artists employed during the pandemic, when all live entertainment was shut down.  So far, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has employed more than 70 NYC performing artists and entertained thousands over the course of more than 30 performances on their series of innovative, parade float-style stages, configured to showcase a wide variety of acts. Those stages have featured acts including wire walkers, jugglers, sway pole artists, contortionists, clowns, magicians, musicians, and even silent movie showings over the past several months. The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus was the first company to bring circus back to New York City since the start of the pandemic.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Flatbed Follies tour 2021 Summer, Photo: Maike Schulz

Frostbite Follieswill feature host Dewitt Fleming, Lisa Liu (foot juggling), Cooper Santiago (aerialist), Michael Rosman (daredevil), Bindlestiff co-founder Keith Nelson (juggling, plate spinning), and the hilarious antics of the Bindlestiff Clown Posse: Deborah Lohse, Mariko Iwasa, Joel Jeske, Lex Alston, and Harold Moeller. Select dates will also feature a professional ice-carving artist, a magician, and live music.

Main Image: Bindlestiff Co-Founder Keith Nelson, Photo: Maike Schulz
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