Choir adds acrobatics

Arts and Culture Centre show will combine live music, aerial acrobatics and dancing

Lady Cove women’s choir is taking to the air again. The choir is presenting “Volanti,” a show combining vocals with aerial acrobatics and dancing, at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre Sunday at 7 p.m.

It was so captivating last time, Lady Cove women’s choir is taking to the air again.

The choir is presenting “Volanti,” a show combining vocals with aerial acrobatics and dancing, at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre Sunday at 7 p.m.

The 58-member award-winning choir will sing as they are joined by members of ifly Aerial Arts, performing on the silks, hoop and trapeze. Dancers from Kittiwake Dance Theatre will also take to the stage.

Music will include everything from Eriks Esenvalds’ “Only in Sleep” to Cindy Lauper’s “True Colours” to the Ennis Sisters’ “Take Me Home.”

It’s the second time Lady Cove has presented a show fusing live music with aerials. The first was a year ago, at the CLB Armoury in St. John’s.

“This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” Lady Cove founder and director Kellie Walsh told The Telegram at that time. “Hopefully this is kind of the beginning of something.”

ifly is led by Anahareo Doelle, a St. John’s native and graduate of Montreal’s National Circus School, who has performed with circuses across Europe. She moved back home with her family in 2011, and will perform alongside her ifly students in “Volanti.”

Montreal-based circus performer Tanya Burka, who has performed with Cirque du Soleil and locally with Wonderbolt Circus, will appear as a special guest.

Tickets for “Volanti” are $30 regular, $25 for seniors and students and $18 for children 14 and under, and are available at the St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre box office and online at www.artsandculturecentre.com.

Ticket holders will be treated to a pre-show by ifly’s senior performance troupe in the upper concourse from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with crafts, face-painting and a photo booth.