It’s a circus minus the wild animals.
But the Wenatchee Youth Circus will arrive in Edmonds on Tuesday and Wednesday ready to provide everything else a circus should have: a flying trapeze, a high-wire act, acrobats performing tumbling and trampoline stunts, clown antics.
The Wenatchee Youth Circus is in its 59th season, under the direction of Paul K. Pugh, who performs as Guppo the Clown.
This traveling show has grown over the years and is now considered one of the four top nonprofessional troupes in the nation, according to the Wenatchee Youth Circus website.
The center ring for this traveling troupe is two 18-wheel semi-trucks where young performers will form human webs, do the double trapeze, perform with fire, ride unicycles and entertain on the teeter board.
There are 40 to 50 members in this year’s troupe, who range in age from 5 to 19.
Pugh, a former junior high principal, founded the circus in 1952. It began as an extracurricular tumbling group for boys and girls at the junior high level with practices held at the YMCA. As a tumbling group, public presentations were made at basketball games, school assemblies and community service club meetings, according to the website.
The Wenatchee Youth Circus will perform at 1 and 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Edmonds Civic Center, Sixth Avenue and Bell Street.
Tickets are $6 for adults; $4 for children 2 to 16; $19 for a family of two adults and up to four children and $3 for a group rate of 10 or more. Get tickets at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds.
For more information call Edmonds Parks & Recreation 425-771-0230 or go to www.wenatcheeyouthcircus.com.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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