Circus Amok

Circus Amok has been together since 1989 bringing its funny, queer, caustic and sexy, political one-ring spectacles to diverse neighborhoods of New York City and beyond. The company is comprised of ring-performers, a live band, roustabouts, and technicians extraordinaire. The ring performers are trained in traditional circus skills--tight rope walking, juggling, acrobatics, stilt walking, clowning, fire-eating and straight-jacket escape--as well as experimental dance, theater, and gender-bending performance art and improvisational techniques. Over the years the traditional circus arts have been combined with dance, lifesize puppetry, music old and new, and dramatic monologues creating new meanings for circus while continuing to entertain the crowds of all ages throughout streets, gardens, parks, campuses, and playgrounds.