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Ticket Price$35-$90
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Duration2hrsOne intermission
- Tuesday, December 31, 2019 8:00PM — Des Moines Civic Center
Cirque at the Symphony
Ring in the New Year with an electrifying evening of gravity-defying feats backed by the full orchestral power of your Des Moines Symphony!
With jaw-dropping feats of athletic prowess and gravity-defying acrobatics, Troupe Vertigo’s acrobats, aerialists, jugglers and more will take you on a spellbinding journey choreographed to thrilling live music, and performed with the full orchestral power of your Des Moines Symphony. Ring in the New Year with an electrifying evening of entertainment as these incredible aerial artists swing from the rafters of the Civic Center!
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Tickets
Single tickets start at $35 and are available through through Des Moines Performing Arts. Please note all ticket prices are subject to increase.
The Des Moines Symphony welcomes children five years and older to attend performances. Children of any age are welcome to attend youth and family concerts. All children, regardless of age, must have their own ticket to attend performances.
Security Notice
Please allow extra time for arrival as each guest will be subject to security screenings and all bags will be checked. Access to the building will be limited to the Ticket Office main doors, Skywalk entrance, and the Prairie Meadows (East) Lobby.
If you have pre-purchased valet parking, please note that you will need to enter through the Ticket Office doors.
Joseph Giunta Conductor
One of America’s most distinguished, versatile and dynamic conductors, Joseph Giunta is a musician of international acclaim. He is recognized as an important American conductor for his innovative programming and for his compelling interpretations of traditional and new music. His musical depth combined with his boundless energy and contagious enthusiasm makes him one of the most respected and successful orchestra leaders in the United States.
Troupe Vertigo Guest Artists
Los Angeles-based theatrical circus company Troupe Vertigo was founded in 2009 by Aloysia Gavre (Cirque du Soleil) and her husband Rex Camphuis (Pickle Family Circus/ Film & Theater Producer). They create an eclectic and refreshing mix of circus-dance-theater works that ignite the imagination with mentally and physically spellbinding performances.
Troupe Vertigo encompasses the wide spectrum of the performing arts including performances at Theaters, Concert Halls, Festivals and Special Events.
Troupe Vertigo has been creatively involved with world class symphonies contributing widely with their theatrical sensibilities to help create new audiences to symphonic concerts, including most recently with renowned Maestro Jack Everly for Cirque Goes Broadway and Cirque Cracker with the Phoenix Symphony.
Their unique perspective on the circus arts have led to a variety of speaking engagements including with The Center Theater Group Los Angeles, Directors Lab West, TEDx Talk and The Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival. Troupe Vertigo has been featured in publications for the cover story of Dance Teacher Magazine (August 2016) and in the book Ordinary Acrobat.
Troupe Vertigo premiered its first show, Big Top for a New Generation, in Los Angeles in 2010 at the Ford Amphitheater with rock n' roll group Nightmare & The Cat featuring Django and Sam Stewart.
The company returned to the Ford Amphitheater in 2012 with Nighthawks: A Film Noir Circus inspired by American Jazz, Edward Hopper paintings and the gritty streets of crime novels from Hammett to Chandler.
2016 brought the creation of their newest work to life entitled TABLEAUX, originally presented by the Dance Resource Center at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Tableaux features five women inquiring about confinement and freedom, while finding themselves constrained on an island of boxes, trapped by the constrictions of society and themselves.
Troupe Vertigo’s facility is also home to Cirque School, LA’s premier circus training space, which inspires an appreciation for the circus arts for "Anybody with Any Body".
Due to their Los Angeles home and having Cirque School as their sister company, Aloysia & Rex's expertise is used often for the film & television industry; most notably for Rebel Wilson's aerial performance in Pitch Perfect 2 and with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, who utilized Cirque School resources not only for circus instruction but for character background research for the film Water for Elephants.
