Anchortown Circus

Building the Alaska circus community through performance, practice, and play

Upcoming Performances

  • Children in Transition/Homeless Project Holiday Party. December 6, 3-5PM
  • Anchorage Downtown Partnership's Fire and Ice New Year's Eve Celebration, December 31 6PM in Town Square
  • THE MUSIC BOX. Out North Theater. January 16th and 17th at 7PM, January 17th and 18th at 4PM.

    • Meghan Holtan has been accepted to the Alaska Artist in Schools residency program. Click HERE to find out about funding through this program.

    Performance

    Add the beauty and skill of live performance to your event with circus artistry. Meghan juggles all shapes and sizes of objects from plastic pears to flames and knives. Stilts, diabolo, unicycle, slackrope, poi, acro-balance, single point trapeze, clarinet and clown round out her repetoire. In her stage acts, circus props are everyday objects, and daily routines become a work of art and play. Through circus arts, the performer weaves music and skill into a story about being human. She is currently working on a full length stage show, "The Music Box".

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    Instruction

    Mix equal parts juggling, tumbling, clowning and fun! Juggling enhances hand-eye coordination and expands peripheral awareness. Acro-balance and tumbling puts the body in space, and expands our physical and mental boundaries. Clown communicates these skills to an audience, and helps the audience recognize the inherent skills that each of us have as we move through the day.

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    Bio

    Who is Anchortown Circus? Well, for right now it's Meghan Holtan and any group of musician performers she can finagle into a Balkan funk. Meghan has spent years traveling, performing and teaching circus arts, but ultimately has returned to her hometown, Anchorage, to try to make circus happen in Alaska. Yes, juggling and the Great Land together at last! She's the sole-proprietor of a woman owned business and bikes to all possible teaching and performance gigs.

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    Contact

    E-mail Meghan at mtholtan *(at)* yahoo *(dot)* com or call 907-244-2453.