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For the last 32 years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility and control.
The Peking Acrobats are accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments. The time-honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese carnival.
Since the group脮s founding in 1986, The Peking Acrobats have been featured on numerous television shows and celebrity-studded TV specials. These include Nickelodeon脮s Unfabulous, Ellen脮s Really Big Show (hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), The Wayne Brady Show, That脮s Incredible, ABC脮s Wide World of Sports, and NBC脮s Ring in The New Year Holiday Special. They have also appeared on HDNet TV脮s In Focus series, and have appeared regularly in 3D on NBC/Comcast脮s new 3D Channel.
The Peking Acrobats set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on Fox Network脮s Guinness Book Primetime television show in 1999. They balanced six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet in the air without safety lines, astounding audiences with their bravery and dexterity. The Peking Acrobats have also made their way onto the silver screen, as company members were featured in Steven Soderbergh脮s hit film Ocean脮s Eleven playing alongside Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Peking Acrobats脮 alumnus Shaobo Qin also appeared in that film脮s two sequels, Ocean脮s Twelve and Ocean脮s Thirteen.
Over their three-decade career, The Peking Acrobats have achieved international acclaim, dazzling audiences around the world. They are part of a time-honored Chinese tradition, rooted in centuries of Chinese history and folk art. Tradition demands that each generation of acrobats add its own improvements and embellishments; because of this, high honor is conferred upon those skilled enough to become acrobats. The Peking Acrobats seek to uphold this rich and ancient folk-art tradition, bringing it to new technical heights while integrating 21-century technology. In the words of Clive Davis of the New York Post, 脪The Peking Acrobats (are) pushing the envelope of human possibility,脫 combining agility and grace in remarkable feats of 脪pure artistry.脫
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