The Chadron State College Galaxy Series offers its first event of the year on Tuesday with a performance by the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at 7:00 in the Memorial Hall Auditorium.
Tickets for Chadron State faculty, students, and staff are free but must be reserved in advance. Prices for the public are $8 for adults and $6 for youth and seniors with children under 7 free. They must be reserved at www.csc.edu/conferencing/galaxy-series.
Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson co-founded the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in 1995 to keep the American traditional circus alive trhough a diverse roster of sideshow, vaudeville, and variety talent.
Monseu and Nelson say they “harken back to the traditional American circus touring the country by caravan.” Their name, bindlestiff, comes from the old slang definition of a hobo who carries his clothes or bedding in a bundle – sometimes at the end of a stick.
Their show includes a combination of jugglers, contortionists, plate spinning, sword swallowing, brain twisters, and other risk-taking feats set to live music.
The New York Times called the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret an “old-fashioned variety entertainment of the sort Ed Sullivan so astutely scooped up, but with twists.”