Gregangelo's Velocity Circus/Arts and Entertainment
Gregangelo's Velocity Circus/Arts and Entertainment is a bleedin' San Francisco-based circus troupe and entertainment company that incorporates the oul' arts, technology, astrophysical concepts, and cultural diversity into their performance acts. In fairness now. The circus and entertainment company was founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Gregangelo Herrera, a feckin' whirlin' dervish, aerial arts choreographer, and drummer. The company's signature performances incorporate multiculturalism, ensemble aerial acts, optical illusions, immersive entertainment, and interactive play.[1] Operatin' both one-out events and a feckin' variety of immersive shows, the feckin' troupe and entertainment company create performances and experiences with an oul' cast of local San Francisco and Bay Area artists, includin' several artists they have sponsored from around the bleedin' world.[2]
For twenty-five years, Velocity Circus has remained an independent company, without federal or private grants or program fundin'. Chrisht Almighty. Though an independent, entrepreneurial set-up is unusual for most circus troupes, the troupe has experienced a bleedin' range of financial and commercial success. In fairness now. Gregangelo's Velocity Circus/Arts and Entertainment is commissioned by non-profits, festivals, museums, corporate entities, and tech startups to create immersive experiences and fully produced shows.[3]
Gregangelo's Velocity Arts and Entertainment Company has created performances and installations, etc., for Warner Bros., Microsoft, Lucasfilm, Lexus, Univision, Yelp,[4] Cisco Systems, and Mercedes-Benz, you know yourself like. For every show, performers double as crew members for Velocity Arts and Entertainment, tailor the oul' costumes, and pitch ideas. Whisht now and eist liom. The arts and entertainment company works in tandem with the feckin' circus, providin' all of its multi-media, motion media, music, costume, makeup, hair and wigs, technology, writin', scenic, lightin', special effects, installations, infrastructure, photography, painters, sculptors, makers, and any other in-house visual and aesthetic support.[5] The Gregangelo Museum serves as the bleedin' company headquarters.
1 Origins
2 Productions (Circus and Arts and Entertainment)
2.1 Neptune Act
2.2 Heliosphere and Heliosphere Jr.
2.3 Heliopolis
2.4 Fa Femina Miss India Pageant
3 Immersive Experiences
3.1 Illuminated Garden Performance and Installation
3.2 Human Logos
3.3 Collaborators and Competitors
4 Incidents and Contentions
Origins[edit]
Gregangelo Herrera was seventeen when he started his Saturday night show at the Pasha Club as a feckin' whirlin' dervish, drummer, and folkloric dancer. The supper club had a bleedin' Moroccan fantasy aesthetic and was a metropolitan spin on Sahara City, a small Middle Eastern circus in Cairo, grand so. Gregangelo Herrera developed the act in a direction that was more futuristic and modern than the bleedin' traditional Dervish act he was hired to perform and was consequently fired three times. However, they rehired yer man three times as well. Durin' this period in his adolescence, he trained in dance and developed his whirlin' dervish act with Amina Goodyear, an oul' cultural dance and music teacher who owned Aswan Dancers.[6] Susu Pampanin, one of the bleedin' Aswan Dance teachers in drummin', locally produced the Cairo Cat performance, where Herrera performed as an ensemble drummer.[7] The community performances gave Herrera exposure at a young age and was formative to his philosophy about money and art.
At the oul' age of eighteen, Herrera declared an individualized major at California College of the oul' Arts, which incorporated multimedia, textiles, cultural studies, videography, woodworkin', and drawin'.[8] The major he created allowed yer man to produce shows later on. Payin' for school as he attended, Herrera worked at a bleedin' contemporary art gallery called Japonesque. Would ye believe this shite?He also traveled to the remote areas in the Middle East with school grant money and earned credits for cultural studies while he continued to develop his artistic career.
Gregangelo Herrera was trainin' at the oul' San Francisco School of Circus Arts (Circus Center) to develop his aerial arts skills when he met Zeina Asfour, another circus performer of Lebanese descent. While trainin' together, surroundin' circus performers began to collaborate with Herrera, gainin' an interest in his artist for-profit mentality.[5] Herrera began choreographin' circus acts that employed a Middle Eastern sensibility while incorporatin' aspects of astrophysics, game ball! In interviews and through his museum tours, Herrera points to how momentum, velocity, and the oul' natural elements interplay in the circus field, fair play. For example, he still employs the laws of physics into the themes and titles of his choreographed performances.[9]
Herrera became aware of the oul' Big Bang theory in the bleedin' 1990s;[10] in 1992 scientists witnessed through a telescope what they thought was a bleedin' universe comin' into existence. Obsessed with the oul' Big Bang theory, Herrera wanted a company name that described the bleedin' force of everythin' that exists in the oul' universe. Thus, Herrera thought the bleedin' equation for velocity (velocity equals distance over time) fit the oul' kinetic nature of circus arts, performance arts, and the feckin' arts in general. Findin' that art comes into existence through movement is very characteristic of the bleedin' traditional Whirlin' Dervish philosophy.
Productions (Circus and Arts and Entertainment)[edit]
Neptune Act[edit]
With an early start at the Circus Center, Herrera produced multiple aerial acts. C'mere til I tell yiz. Durin' the bleedin' Neptune Act, aerial artists performed in pitch black lightin', wearin' UV reactive costumin'. Appearin' on the oul' apparatus at abnormal times gave viewers the oul' idea that the feckin' performers were appearin' and disappearin'.[5] Herrera would continue to employ this multimedia technique throughout other shows.
Heliosphere and Heliosphere Jr.[edit]
Velocity Circus Arts and Entertainment company's global and continental exposure increased after the feckin' show Heliosphere went on tour to county festivals around the bleedin' United States as a for-hire circus troupe. Would ye swally this in a minute now?Paul Del Bene co-wrote the show, which attempted to look at the solar system and beyond the oul' solar system, and was composed of stand alone acts based in astrophysics, such as an oul' double contortion act called Eclipse, a feckin' fire act called Solar, and the bleedin' whirlin' dervish act called Vortex.[11] Encapsulatin' the bleedin' company's Arabic and physics based aesthetic, the show attracted regional and national festivals and theaters, the shitehawk. Though it started as a holy show geared towards adult viewers for its revealin' costumes, mature humor and concepts, Velocity Circus was commissioned to tighten up Heliosphere for a family audience.
Heliosphere Jr. was created as an adaptation to the oul' original Heliosphere featurin' the oul' same interactive and immersive tactics. Another purpose of the bleedin' acts were to introduce world culture all over the bleedin' United States, in an effort to brin' San Francisco multiculturalism to small towns in middle America.[12] The show was assembled with the oul' goal of engagin' youth while servin' as an educational platform, though they have no formal educators in trainin', the oul' Legion of Honor has employed the oul' circus troupe many times to continue performances that double as educational platforms. [13]
Heliopolis[edit]
Heliopolis was commissioned for the feckin' Tutankhamun and the feckin' Golden Age of the bleedin' Pharaohs exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, fair play. The production attempted to provide a panorama of Egyptian history, mythology, folklore and fantasy.[14] The performance featured hypnotic hand dances, hoops of fire, contortionists, aerialists, and snake charmers, you know yourself like. The cast included 20 artists.
Fa Femina Miss India Pageant[edit]
Velocity Circus' India show at Fa Femina Miss India Pageant adopted some of the acts from Heliosphere while incorporatin' new acts that featured an Indian inspired dance act, a Persian fire act, and an Egyptian whirlin' dervish act.[15] The performance in Hyderabad, India, attracted Velocity Circus' largest television audience to date.
Immersive Experiences[edit]
Illuminated Garden Performance and Installation[edit]
The Illuminated Garden was commissioned by tech companies and took place in a holy park in Palo Alto, California, bedad. The performance followed the bleedin' arc of the feckin' day, startin' at noon and endin' at midnight, bejaysus. The show was an interactive performance where the feckin' audience became the characters in the feckin' show, flyin' on the oul' trapeze, climbin' and crawlin' through interactive installations and investigatin' the world through a circus experience. Would ye believe this shite?Audience members' faces were projected onto a 16-foot tall video sculpture titled the oul' PyramID, the shitehawk. Velocity Circus scheduled an oul' brief break for dinner, durin' which, the bleedin' garden became illuminated in glow-in-the-dark LED lights. Whisht now and listen to this wan. Audience members wore 3D glasses and walked through a 3-dimensional labyrinth, wadin' through grass reeds and flowers as floatin' aerial artists swung overhead in lit-up orbs.
Human Logos[edit]
In a bleedin' rebrandin' campaign, Mercedes-Benz and Univision commissioned Herrera to recreate their logos by usin' aerial artists to hang suspended in mid-air. [16]
Collaborators and Competitors[edit]
Gregangelo Herrera has collaborated with some of his would be competitors, but Velocity Circus is still not completely competitor free, so it is. The circus arts have been popular in San Francisco, and long time standin' circus arts organizations like Acrosports and the feckin' San Francisco Circus Center, that were once collaborators now compete for show bookings.
Other close relatives of the feckin' circus arts compete for commissions and have similar platforms to Velocity Circus. Sufferin' Jaysus. Vau de Vire Society is a bleedin' San Francisco born company that features burlesque aesthetics, musicians that double as circus performers, and provocative music. As Velocity Circus has honed in its skills to appeal to younger audiences and family events for example the feckin' kid's section at the Parade of Tall Ships,[17] Vau de Vire is just one of the circus troupes that appeals to adult life that is boomin' in San Francisco.[18] The circus can be very sexual in many respects, and Velocity Circus shows employ mature jokes that seem harmless on the feckin' surface, usin' rhetoric like "deflowerin'" and "seeds" at county festivals where the towns are known for their produce.[19]
A circus troupe in Pennsylvania, Double Blind Productions, has very similar concepts as Velocity Circus, includin' a narrative show much like Velocity Circus' shows, called Escape Velocity.[20] The troupe is self proclaimed comedians, artisans, aerial artists and musicians.
Kinetic Arts Center is a Bay Area based circus troupe that also offers classes to the feckin' general public and competes with Velocity Circus in marketin' their shows.
Herrera himself believes in collaboration, and avidly makes a bleedin' point on his CCA alumnus page about the feckin' benefits of artistic collaboration especially as fundin' for the feckin' arts decline in today's political atmosphere.[21] Some of Herrera's collaborators are Trapeze Arts Incorporated, Earth Circus and Trapeze World.
Incidents and Contentions[edit]
In 2015, Velocity Circus had a feckin' problem with their generator and an ice rink show had to be cancelled, the shitehawk. Since then Lightin' of the feckin' Embarcadero Ice Rink has only used Disney on Ice.[22]
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^ "Asparagus Festival Includes Deluge of Entertainment Near Downtown Stockton Hotels". Would ye believe this shite?2012-03-27. Would ye believe this shite?Archived from the feckin' original on 20 January 2018, you know yourself like. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
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