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The spectacle tent11/5/2022 ![]() ![]() Let your mornings begin with hot coffee and a hearty breakfast and if you are looking for a chilled afternoon pottering around camp then we really recommend setting up a nice slow cooked beef stew in a cast iron pot over the fire. With the warm(ish) days and cool nights, comfort foods are at front and centre of the fall camping menu. With pumpkin ales, stouts and porters back on the menu, a fall camping trip cries out for a day of adventurous activity followed by some R&R at the local brewery. Hallelujah, it’s that time of year again! Vancouver Island has an incredible craft beer scene and we’re very lucky to have a host of local breweries all creating seasonal beers. Whether you are looking for a wilderness spot or a camping spot at one of the more popular provincial park campgrounds you will be more likely to find exactly what you’re looking for on Vancouver Island in this season. With the kids back at school and the summer campers safely back at home, some of the best camping spots are now up for grabs. Although it’s apparent to any viewer that my featured subjects are highly skilled, the appreciation of the photographs and the disciplines they represent increases when viewed with cultural knowledge of circus.Many people raise an eyebrow at the thought of camping in this cooler, and sometimes wetter, time of the year but trust me, those people don’t know what they are missing! Every year fall captures our hearts and wins the prize for the best camping season of the year, and here’s why! Fewer Crowds During the shoot I ask each subject to show me the moves that are unique to them something they have attained after great investment of time and effort. Being part of this community has allowed me to capture many images that would have been impossible if I was not a circus artist myself. Often, while I do not personally know the artists prior to photographing them, we have at least 25 friends in common from all over the globe. ![]() Even though there are a limited number of circus disciplines, there is no limit to the creativity and diversity of the form. When I watch other performers I see a roadmap of where in the world they have trained in addition to their own personal artistic style. A Ukrainian hand-balancer bends their fingers in a handstand, and the French tend to juggle with lots of dance-like movement. Due to specific training styles in different countries, circus performers often watch one another train and quickly recognize where they studied. This understanding of the time and effort required for circus provides an automatic connection between strangers across nationalities and cultures.Īlthough it is possible to have circus performers from anywhere in the world, there are cultural and historical trends for where the highest-level acts in each discipline tend to originate: contortionists from Mongolia, acrobats from Ukraine, and jugglers from France are a few common examples. There is a mutual respect for the time spent to achieve certain physical benchmarks: a one-arm handstand, juggling five clubs, performing a double backflip. Within this community I found a mutual respect for time spent on physical training we spend countless hours obsessing over and perfecting each trick you see on stage. I discovered an incredible array of artists from all cultural backgrounds who came together to train and perform. ![]() While I have always loved gymnastics and juggling, I fell in love with the circus community the year I was hired to perform with Cirque du Soleil. ![]()
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