City in Focus: Summer Circus Act

Members from Throw2Catch perform at the Summer Stage festival at Marcus Garvey Park in New York, August 19, 2014. (Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times)

Artists from around the world come to New York every summer for the Summer Stage festival, which features a slate of free performances provided by the City Parks Foundation. A circus night was held Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Marcus Garvey Park showcasing performers from the Big Apple Circus and Throw2Catch, Canada’s globally recognized circus troupe. The audience enjoyed gravity-defying acrobatic and juggling skills as well as the charming Québécois accent.