flommist tease ‘has a moment’

And then I ran off and joined the circus. 

Where I found like-mind­ed in­di­vid­u­als who love to in­spire peo­ple. Who have a pur­pose and goals. Like FLOMM has be­come, but different. 

Sac­Cirque is a col­lec­tive of Sacra­men­to-based per­form­ing artists – but is much more than that. We pro­duce large scale show and events but also, we en­cour­age the cre­ative voice of each of our mem­bers. And we’re con­nect­ed to the Sacra­men­to com­mu­ni­ty through out­reach pro­grams where we can bring the cir­cus arts to un­der­priv­i­leged youth in the area. 

This is my art. 

And I love the many dif­fer­ent ways the con­cept of cir­cus is in­ter­pret­ed. In­clud­ing Chi­nese Opera, the trav­el­ling cir­cus, et cetera.

‘Cir­cus’ as en­ter­tain­ment has been around since An­cient Rome – first as a build­ing, sim­i­lar to Greece’s hip­po­dromes – a venue for en­ter­tain­ment, which grew over the years into the many forms that ex­ist today.
 

Maria S. Valera, pho­to­graph of cir­cus girl, n.d.
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Al­bert Gleizes, Etude pour ‘Ac­ro­bates,’ New York, 1916
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Fer­nand Léger, Sketch for ‘The Ac­ro­bats,’ 1918
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Pyke Koch, Fair in Utrecht, 1928–29
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Cul­tur­al­ly, old se­crets are passed on through fam­i­lies and friends, with per­form­ers trained from child­hood – there are so many dif­fer­ent ways to circus. 

FLOMM’s own in­ter­est in cre­at­ing a con­tem­po­rary ver­sion of 1920s Kabarett (with com­e­dy, bur­lesque, and cir­cus of course) as art form is just one as­pect of all this (de­tails to come soon). 

To­day, cir­cus has had an amaz­ing re­vival with the pop­u­lar­i­ty of Cirque du Soleil, and neo-bur­lesque is tied to Dita Von Teese and The Pussy­cat Dolls en­joy­ing main­stream success.

Cir­cus is part of our world and our culture. 

And here’s my per­for­mance from last week’s Sac­Cirque HAP­PY F@#%ING VALEN­TINES show at BAD­LANDS in Sacra­men­to, California:
 

 

Shot and edit­ed by FLOMM’s Steve Mehal­lo, who was care­ful­ly bal­anced in the crowd next to some guy’s butt just to get this footage.
 
 

—rik­ki morehouse

Flom­mist Rik­ki More­house is a mod­ernist, log­i­cal and or­ga­nized; she works as a graph­ic de­sign­er. When not de­sign­ing, she can be found climb­ing rocks, ab­sorbed in Yoga, Pi­lates, Muay Thai and Net­flix. She is also one of the founders of Sac­Cirque. Copy­right © 2017 Rik­ki Morehouse.

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