Site-Specific Spectacular

Part of the 26th annual High Performance Rodeo
January 12-28, 2012

TOUR #1: Needle in the Sky (January 12-14)
TOUR #2: Shadow of the Tower (January 19-21)
TOUR #3: Beyond the Curtain (January 19-21)
TOUR #4: Death of the Freak Show (January 24-28)
Spectacular Passport! Come to all four tours for only $50.

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Dancers in a freight elevator? Acrobats in the boiler room? Actors on a rooftop?!
Welcome to the Site-Specific Spectacular, a mini-festival that features performances in the most bizarre locations imaginable. In four distinct tours, more than 50 local artists will climb the heights of the Calgary Tower and explore the depths of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts.
The series concludes with Death of the Freak Show, an original play by Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre inspired by the classic freak shows of America’s scandalous past. Follow characters like Myrtle, the Four-Legged Girl, Kale “Rottentongue” Miller and Lady Lala, the Bearded Beauty, in their struggle against the tyranny of normal.

“Entertaining and chilling … The audience was held spellbound by either laughter or amazement throughout the tour.”
– Random Nation
“Imaginatively weird, madly grotesque and freak-y.”
– Bob Clark, The Calgary Herald