Peking Acrobats performance tonight at Victoria Theatre postponed

UPDATED (March 12, 2020) — Tonight’s Peking Acrobats performance scheduled at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton has been postponed. Ticket-holders will be contacted with more information once new details are available, Dayton Live announced this morning.

ORIGINAL REPORT (March 9, 2020) — Imagine gravity-defying moves such as performing acrobats atop stacked chairs.

For more than three decades, The Peking Acrobats have been performing daring maneuvers atop a pagoda of chairs in addition to trick-cycling, tumbling, juggling and contortion.

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See them perform this week at the Victoria Theatre on Thursday, March 12. Tickets are $38.

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ABOUT THE PEKING ACROBATS

Since their founding in 1986, The Peking Acrobats have been featured on numerous television shows and celebrity-studded TV specials. These include Nickelodeon’s “Unfabulous,” “Ellen’s Really Big Show”(hosted by Ellen DeGeneres), “The Wayne Brady Show,” “ABC’s Wide World of Sports” and more. They set the world record for the Human Chair Stack on FOX Network’s “Guinness Book Primetime” television show in 1999: they balanced six people precariously atop six chairs 21 feet up in the air without safety lines. They also were featured in the film “Ocean’s 11.”

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WANT TO GO?

What: The Peking Acrobats

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12

Where: Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton

Cost: $38.

More info: Call 937-228-3630 or visit www.ticketcenterstage.com.

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