{"id":1438,"date":"2014-07-14T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2019-01-29T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:31:33","slug":"exotic-animals-or-human-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/exotic-animals-or-human-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Animals or Human Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emily Martin<\/p>\n

Animal-free circus in South-East Asia? Yes, at Phare, the Cambodian Circus! Energy, enthusiasm, determination and sheer human talent.<\/p>\n

In New Zealand, where I come from, it\u2019s very rare to see animals forced into the entertainment industry. We\u2019re a country full of birds, insects and marine life and while these creatures are magnificent and fascinating in their own rights, there\u2019s not much desire to see a flightless Kiwi bird balance a ball on its beak, or a giant weta jumping through hoops.<\/p>\n

Across the world however, there are other magnificent animals captured, tortured and made to perform child-like tasks to \u2018amaze\u2019 and \u2018bewilder\u2019 audiences.\"animal-free1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More and more of these operations are being shut down and pressured to change their ways, in my opinion a no-brainer! In the process they\u2019re creating performances that are more enticing and transfixing than ever before.<\/p>\n

Instead of watching depressed and drugged animals jump hoops and parade around a ring, audiences are being dazzled by the incredible feats that our own species, humans can do.<\/p>\n

Like PHARE The Cambodian Circus has always done, circuses are turning more towards amazing circus arts such as gravity-defying acrobatics; pushing the human body to it\u2019s limit to entertain and astound.\"animal-free2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Years and years of practice and dedication go into this skilful art. The PHARE performers train for many years at Phare Ponleu Selpak Artistic Center in Battambang before they take the stage in Siem Reap.<\/p>\n

I believe that the huge amount of time and concentration that goes into creating these human-driven shows makes going to a circus such as PHARE so much more rewarding and inspiring to watch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s disturbingly easy to take a lion cub from it\u2019s mother for use in a circus\u2026 a \u2018coward\u2019s\u2019 way to get some circus dollars – but human performers\u2026 they manage to do what some of us think is impossible.<\/p>\n

I know what I would rather spend money to see\u2026 how about you.\"animal-free3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To help support the growing number of human-driven circuses head to PHARE\u2019s Big Top<\/a> in Siem Reap and let our performers blow you away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Emily Martin Animal-free circus in South-East Asia? Yes, at Phare, the Cambodian Circus! Energy, enthusiasm, determination and sheer human talent. In New Zealand, where I come from, it\u2019s very rare to see animals forced into the entertainment industry. We\u2019re a country full of birds, insects and marine life and while these creatures are magnificent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}