Anchortown Circus
Building the Alaska circus community through performance,
practice, and play
Upcoming Events
Talkeenta's Green Light Circus
Alaska's longest running youth circus! See more than 50 kids perform all new acts!
Thursday, June 17th 7:30PM Sheldon Community Arts Hangar
Friday, June 18, 7:30PM Sheldon Community Arts Hangar
Saturday June 19th, 7:30PM Sheldon Community Arts Hangar
Roustabout Circus: Staff of the GLC perform music, mayhem, manipulation and mime!
Sunday, June 20, 4PM Sheldon Community Arts Hangar, Talkeenta
Monday, June 21, 8PM Flat Top Mt. (Circus for Solstice!), Anchorage
Tuesday, June 22, 6:30PM Forest Fair Pavilion, Girdwood
Thursday, June 24, 3PM Social Hall, Hope
Friday, June 25, 7:00PM Ionia
Saturday, June 26, 4PM Yurt Village Stage, Homer
Anchortown Jugglers meets every Wednesday at 7PM at the Fairview Rec Center.
Meghan Holtan has been accepted to the Alaska Artist in Schools
residency program. Click HERE to find
out about funding through this program.
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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, accordion, 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. Her one woman solo show is
called "The Music Box", which debuted at Out North in January of 2009.
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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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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 many 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.
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