Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
Sunday, October 25, 2026
3:00 PM
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367
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About This Event
Cirque Kalabanté brings its program WOW (World of Words) to the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The ensemble translates circus technique to concert-hall settings, built on rigorous physical training and an emphasis on group timing, strength-based movement and percussion-forward rhythm. In Queens they have shared bills with Miguel Anggelo, Santiago Cruz, the Queens College Choral Society, the Queens Symphony Orchestra and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.
About WÔW (World of Words)
At the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Cirque Kalabanté brings **WÔW (World of Words)** to New York City as a group-built circus work shaped by timing, strength, and percussion. The piece leans on momentum and ensemble coordination rather than storyline, making the body and the beat its main language. Its West African–rooted movement vocabulary sits in conversation with a Queens stage that regularly frames global forms inside a local borough context. The result reads as a study in collective labor, where precision functions like dialogue.
About the Artist
Cirque Kalabanté
Cirque Kalabanté is a performance ensemble that brings circus technique into concert-hall and presenting-arts settings, including appearances at New York City’s Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center.