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Big Moves: The Big Top

Sat., April 26, 2 and 8 p.m., $5 (kids)-$15 (adults), Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org, bigmoves.org.

by A.D. Amorosi

Published: Apr 22, 2008

DANCE

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While we're uncertain as to why we need Boston's division of the Big Moves troupe to teach a thing-or-three about circus-ing, we're pretty positive we need them to instruct us on the art of plus-size dance and movement. That's what dancer/founder Marina Wolf Ahmad's Big Moves troupe does — focus on larger-than-thin performers. And for 2008, Ahmad's Boston branch wants big peeps in the Big Top with a wealth of big-boned clowns, aerialists, muscle men and women joining in on Big Moves usual pleasantries like its Beantown resident poet Jaclyn Friedman and its bhangra hip-hop belly dancers. Boing.

Sat., April 26, 2 and 8 p.m., $5 (kids)-$15 (adults), Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org, bigmoves.org.

 

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