Circus Harmony

Circus Flora’s 38th season includes mainstays like the Flying Wallendas and Circus Harmony’s St. Louis Arches. This year’s show also features the Wheel of Death and bareback equestrian acrobatics.

The weekly classes at five of the city’s recreation centers will be supported for the next two years by a grant from the Missouri Arts Council. Circus Harmony hopes to secure funding to make them permanent.

In recent months, as Jessica Hentoff and her Circus Harmony crew began planning the social circus organization’s first performance in a long while, they didn’t have to search too far for the show’s overarching theme. “Circus is always an analogy for life,” Hentoff, artistic/executive director, explained, “but now more than ever.”

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