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    Over 400 students at Aptos High School were enthralled by a performance from Chinese acrobats. The show began with a male acrobat expertly tossing and catching a pot while hardly blinking. A female contortionist flexibly bent and twisted her body into unnatural positions, including fitting her entire body inside a small barrel. Later, two male acrobats juggled hats while dancing around the stage with incredible speed and skill. The finale featured one acrobat balancing on a small piece of wood atop an increasingly tall and wobbly stack of five metal cylinders. The acrobatic feats of bending, balancing, and precision throwing amazed and delighted the audience.

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    A Review of the Chinese Acrobatics Tour in 2004 in West Coast United States.

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    Over 400 students at Aptos High School were enthralled by a performance from Chinese acrobats. The show began with a male acrobat expertly tossing and catching a pot while hardly blinking. A female contortionist flexibly bent and twisted her body into unnatural positions, including fitting her entire body inside a small barrel. Later, two male acrobats juggled hats while dancing around the stage with incredible speed and skill. The finale featured one acrobat balancing on a small piece of wood atop an increasingly tall and wobbly stack of five metal cylinders. The acrobatic feats of bending, balancing, and precision throwing amazed and delighted the audience.

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    Over 400 students at Aptos High School were enthralled by a performance from Chinese acrobats. The show began with a male acrobat expertly tossing and catching a pot while hardly blinking. A female contortionist flexibly bent and twisted her body into unnatural positions, including fitting her entire body inside a small barrel. Later, two male acrobats juggled hats while dancing around the stage with incredible speed and skill. The finale featured one acrobat balancing on a small piece of wood atop an increasingly tall and wobbly stack of five metal cylinders. The acrobatic feats of bending, balancing, and precision throwing amazed and delighted the audience.

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    Christopher Wemp Period 3 12/2/04

    Stunning Show Enthralls Aptos High School Students


    esterda! at Aptos High School" o#er 400 students were capti#ated $! an ama%ing per&ormance gi#en $! Chinese acro$ats' (he acro$ats did the impossi$le as the! &lipped" $alanced" and twisted their wa! through 40 minutes o& incredi$le &eats' (he show opened when a male acro$at" dressed in a $right green" se)uin studded suit" came on stage with a small pot in his hand' He suddenl! tossed the pot around his $od!" e*pertl! and easil! maneu#ering it with nim$le hands' (he crowd supported him $! clapping and shouting out in surprise and awe as the acro$at pulled o&& tric+! throws and di&&icult catches while hardl! $lin+ing an e!e' (he ne*t act was o& a &emale acro$at" or" rather" a contortionist' Her &le*i$le $od! shoc+ed the students as she stretched her lim$s to the limit while $ending and twisting hersel& around' ,n a later act" she &it her entire $od! into a small $arrel- an unnatural &eat in itsel&' (he highlight o& her per&ormance" howe#er" was when she li&ted her $od! o&& the ground $! means o& her $iting down on a metal apparatus and raising her lower $od! towards the ceiling' (he same pot wielding acro$at as well as a new male acro$at participated in the ne*t act' (he! had straw hats that the! .uggled with while dancing around the stage' (he speed at which the! mo#ed their o$.ects &rom hand to hand were incredi$le and a pleasure to watch' (he &inal act was o& the two same male acro$ats pretending the! were in the circus' /nce stood on top o& a large $arrel and $alanced on a piece o& wood laid o#er a short" stu$$!" metal c!linder' A&ter he $alanced" he added another c!linder" creating a small stac+' 0! the end o& his act" &i#e metal c!linders were stac+ed up with three placed on their round side so that the tower was #er! wo$$l!' (he sha+! &oundation was no trou$le &or the acro$at" howe#er" $ecause he sta!ed on the piece o& wood and +ept his $alance the whole time'

    1rom $ending to hat throwing to pot tossing" the acro$atic show was one that was well worth seeing'

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