Dubstep Circus #6: Recap!

Waaaaaaaaaaaah-hooooooooooooooooooo!!

HOLY HOPPIN' HOOPERS!

Dubstep Circus #6 was set to be our first outdoor festival, and due to circumstances beyond our own control, we had to find a new venue (and new everyyyythingggg) last minute.

So yes, we scrambled. But we did it! And it was fun!

I love this motto: "Everybody is trying their best." I like to repeat it every so often so that I can be brought back to our roots of collaboration and a genuine love for building community. The people who come together to make these events happen are wonderful and loyal and crazy-talented! They sacrifice lots of SLEEP FOR ALL OF YOU!

They also sacrifice sweat and passion and creative hands and ungodly amounts of time, so thank you thank you thank you, to everyone who makes this thing what it is.

Speaking of gratitude, we are blessed to have photographers on our team. Joe Le and John Wiley captured some truly awesome moments from the night:

Loooook at these photos, hell yes! I feel really proud, I know Grant and Scott do too, and probably you if you're reading this, for what we've created. It is not perfect, it is not without faults, but everybody is trying their best, working with what we've got, and still the support is overwhelming - so yay for all of us weirdos!

Our community outreach excites me too. Together we raised over 1,000 children's books for Sampson-Webber Academy in Detroit. We've already handed many of them out, mostly to 2nd and 3rd grade students, and gosh they just absolutely freakkkk over these books. It's awesome to hear about how positive and anxious they feel about getting their hands on a good book. Thank you to all who came out and donated.

We were also able to donate a nice amount of money to Motor Moms and Dads, a cool local project that is committed to the "development of basic motor skills which are important for the achievement of early learning success in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade." In other words, they promote acitivity in early elementary age children, because studies have shown that an active childhood is positively correlated with success in the classroom. Motor Moms also truly needs the money to vamp up their resources and improve the conditions for the project. For example, their balance beam exercise right now is a ten foot long 2 x 4 on the ground. Our donation of a portion of our financial proceeds is going to help them greatly - another yay!

Dubstep Circus #6: A Festival for the Freaks turned out to be a jolly ole time. Cirque du Womp looks forward to taking the upcoming production to a whole new level. We are pushing ourselves HARD on this one, from the community outreach to the visual stimulization to the performance to the ambiance to the music. We are refocusing our efforts and working to get back to our original vision of spreading love and inspiring positivity within the community.

Lots of tune-ups and improvements to be made, and we can't wait to show you what we got in store on this next show.

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ULTRAVIOLET UNTZ: A Higher Octave of Art, Music, & Movement

November 6, 2010

Majestic Theatre, Detroit

9pm - 4am

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See ya at the Untz!

-angela