Cirque Holiday Program Book

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The Phoenix Symphony Presents

Cirque Holiday Friday, December 6, 2024, 7:30 PM Saturday, December 7, 2024, 2:00 PM Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:30 PM Sunday, December 8, 2024, 2:00 PM Orpheum Theatre Alex Amsel, Conductor Troupe Vertigo arr. Don Sebesky

A Christmas Scherzo

Pyotr Tchaikovsky arr. Jeff Tyzik

Nutcracker Mini Jazz Suite I. Dance of the Sugar Plums

Pyotr Tchaikovsky arr. Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn adapted by Jeff Tyzik

Nutcracker Suite for Orchestra I. Overture

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker March Children’s Galop

Pyotr Tchaikovsky arr. Jeff Tyzik

Nutcracker Mini Jazz Suite III. Swing Dance á la Russe

Felix Bernard arr. Calvin Custer

Winter Wonderland

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Final Waltz Waltz of tthe Flowers INTERMISSION

Robert Wendel

Caribbean Sleigh Ride

Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard arr. Jerry Brubaker

Concert Suite from The Polar Express

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Chocolate (Spanish Dance) Coffee (Arabian Dance) Trepak (Russian Dance) Mother Ginger and the Clowns THE PHOENIX SYMPHONY | TPS 13

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Cirque Holiday Continued Alexander Glazunov

Scenes de Ballet, op. 52 II. Marionettes

Leroy Anderson

Sleigh Ride

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Pas de Deux

Mykola Leontovich arr. Richard Hayman

Carol of the Bells

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Waltz of the Snowflakes

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ARTIST PROFILES

Troupe Vertigo 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 for Symphonic Concerts.

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. As well in publications for the cover story of Dance Teacher Magazine {August 2016} and in the book Ordinary Acrobat.

Troupe Vertigo premiered its first show in Los Angeles Big Top for a New Generation in 2010 at the Ford Amphitheater with a young 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 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 are 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.

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