{"id":12277,"date":"2019-12-28T20:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:14:57","slug":"cirque_alfonse_-_tabarnak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/12\/28\/cirque_alfonse_-_tabarnak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque Alfonse &#8211; &#8220;Tabarnak&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cirque Alfonse, &#8220;Tabarnak&#8221;, at the Hangar at Subtopia.<\/p>\n<p>Cirque Alfonse is a family circus from Quebec. Not the kind that is aimed at families, which mostly seems to mean silly clowns, but a circus that is a family.<\/p>\n<p>Tabarnak was quirky, down-to-earth back-country circus. The scene design featured bare, undecorated timber frames and a colourful church window. The artists were dressed in loose gray trousers and long, loose white shirts.<\/p>\n<p>There were various different kinds of acts, and also random entertaining things-between-acts. (Step dancing. Rhythmic whip cracking.) But their best numbers were strength acrobatics: climbing on top of each other. This was all accompanied by live music, written by\/for the troupe.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this a lot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Tabarnak_Cirque_Alfonse.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\"><br \/>\nImage from the web site of Cirque Alfonse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cirque Alfonse, &#8220;Tabarnak&#8221;, at the Hangar at Subtopia. Cirque Alfonse is a family circus from Quebec. Not the kind that is aimed at families, which mostly seems to mean silly clowns, but a circus that is a family. Tabarnak was quirky, down-to-earth back-country circus. The scene design featured bare, undecorated timber frames and a colourful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,798],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-circus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12279,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}