They’re back: the acrobats, tightrope walkers, jugglers, brass bands, and Co. For the ninth edition of its Hopla! festival, the City of Brussels has lined up thirteen free shows: indoors, under a big top, and outdoors in the Sint-Katelijne/Sainte-Catherine district. There will be something completely new in the form of Obstinées from the La Burrasca company (photo), whose lithe trapeze artists try out the most extraordinary and unlikely holds, eight metres above the ground – while our hearts turn somersaults. In Petit Frère, the two clown-acrobats of the Carré Curieux company don’t leave the ground, where they are fully occupied in manipulating all sorts of objects and in getting entangled on their little red bike. The two juggler musicians of Les Argonautes are back in Solo Due, a romantic escapade on the brink of an abyss. Newcomers this year include Bardaf Circus’s little caravan, which will wander the streets and squares of Laken/Laeken, pulled by a purring red tractor. Eight young artistes from the Ecole du Cirque de Bruxelles will give their audience a beginners’ class in juggling before their show. Young would-be circus performers can learn the ABC of circus arts from the Circus Zonder Handen at the Baksteenkaai/Quai aux Briques. And, encouraged by the tightrope walkers, aged from ten to sixty, whom they will have watched gliding along cables strung across the pool at the Vismet, the thirsty and fearless will have an opportunity to sip a tightrope aperitif eight metres up.
HOPLA!
13 > 19/4, various locations, www.hopla-cirk.be
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