The circus flipped, spun and raced its way through Yellowknife this week as The Great Benjamin's Circus performed at the multiplex on Saturday.

"We have an acrobat show with jugglers, acrobats, clowns, aerialists, and funny clowns. We've got motorcycles and a giant steel ball, we've got the wheel of destiny, someone walking out of a giant apparatus and we've got the swing,SA国际影视传媒� said John Davenport, the general manager of the show. SA国际影视传媒淚t's kind of hard to describe it but you just have to see it.SA国际影视传媒�

The show, based out of Texas, had been travelling across Alaska and Western Canada before they performed in the Ed Jeske Arena on Saturday. It was a one-day, three-show stop in the capital before the show packed up and headed back south.

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In addition to a show, circus-goers were offered festival-favourite snacks such as cotton candy, popcorn and soda as well as souvenirs including light-up swords and for the children in the crowd there was a number of face painting stations.

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For that acrobat show there were line-ups around the side of the arena half an hour before the show started on a weekend that saw the circus come to town during Folk on the Rocks, the biggest annual event in Yellowknife. Despite competing for the publicSA国际影视传媒檚 attention, Davenport said that he was happy to help direct people across town once the show was over.

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