Teen Alumni Sam Landa Brings an Acrobatic Hamlet to DC!
Date
August 6, 2024
July 31 to August 11
Union Market District’s Dock5
1309 5th St NE, Washington, D.C. 20002
Use code: THEATRELAB for 20% off tickets
Sam Landa, a Theatre Lab alum, and his interdisciplinary theatre and circus company, New York Circus Project, transforms Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet into a contemporary acrobatic performance.
Sam describes his company and this show in this way: “Both circus and Shakespeare are perceived as aged forms. By matching the heightened sense of risk that circus delivers to a high-stakes narrative like Hamlet, the show exceeds the original intentions of each of the forms, delighting the audience in the process.” Sam, who is both the creator and director for this groundbreaking show, also works as a consultant of acrobatic and aerial elements on Broadway productions.
Growing up in Alexandria, Sam danced at The Washington School of Ballet; studied musical theater at The Theatre Lab; and was introduced to the aerial arts at Capitol City Circus School (formerly, TSNY DC). He attended high school at The National Circus School (Ecole Nationale de Cirque) in Montreal where he studied the aerial arts under world-renowned coaches. He graduated from Columbia University, where he founded the Columbia Circus Collective. It was at Columbia that this show was conceived.
New York Circus Project is a 501(c)(3) organization. In addition to transforming classics for the stage, the company offers free outdoor performances. These performances allow local communities the opportunity to experience live theatre coupled with aerial acrobatics and physical theater. Click here for tickets and information or email Sam at hello@newyorkcircusproject.org.
Use code: THEATRELAB for a special 20% discount.