Some of the world's finest cirque artists perform a variety of daring physical feats against a live classical music soundtrack during The Florida Orchestra's latest production, Cirque de la Symphonie. Guest pops conductor Michael Krajewski leads TFO through a program of Armenian folk-influenced compositions by Aram Khachaturian, dramatic movements by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and large-scale romantic orchestra pieces by film-score extraordinaire John Williams. Among the featured performers are aerial artists Aloysia Gavre and Alexander Streltsov, hand balancers Jarek and Darek, mime/juggler Vladimir Tsarkov and contortionist, gymnast and dancer Elena Tsarkova.
Cirque de la Symphonie, 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 11, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, Tampa; and 8 p.m. Sat., 7:30 p.m. Sun., Jan. 12-13, Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S., St. Petersburg. Tickets are $19 to $54; for more info or to reserve a pair, call 813-286-2403 or visit floridaorchestra.org.
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2008.
