The Peking Acrobats

Name: The Peking Acrobats
Start: 2025-02-14T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 9000 W College Pkwy , Palos Hills, IL, United States, Illinois 60465

Schedule

Fri Feb 14 2025 at 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

9000 W College Pkwy , Palos Hills, IL, United States, Illinois 60465 | Palos Hills, IL

The Peking Acrobats
Friday, Feb. 14 | 7:30 p.m.
Dorothy Menker Theater
For the last 32 years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility and control.
The Peking Acrobats are accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments. The time-honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese carnival.
Since the group’s founding in 1986, The Peking Acrobats have been featured on numerous television shows and celebrity-studded TV specials. These include Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous, Ellen’s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That’s Incredible, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and NBC’s Ring in The New Year Holiday Special. They have also appeared on HDNet TV’s In Focus series, and have appeared regularly in 3D on NBC/Comcast’s new 3D Channel.
The Peking Acrobats set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on Fox Network’s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999. They balanced six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity. The Peking Acrobats have also made their way onto the silver screen, as company members were featured in Steven Soderbergh’s hit film Ocean’s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Peking Acrobats’ alumnus Shaobo Qin also appeared in that film’s two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen.
Over their three-decade career, The Peking Acrobats have achieved international acclaim, dazzling audiences around the world. They are part of a time-honored Chinese tradition, rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Tradition demands that each generation of acrobats add its own improvements and embellishments; because of this, high honor is conferred upon those skilled enough to become acrobats. The Peking Acrobats seek to uphold this rich and ancient folk-art tradition, bringing it to new technical heights while integrating 21-century technology. In the words of Clive Davis of the New York Post, “The Peking Acrobats (are) pushing the envelope of human possibility,” combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of “pure artistry.”
Artist Website: chineseacrobats.com
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MVCC Employee $30
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