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Cirque Rocks was a charity circus held in New Zealand event that was organised by the Dean Lonergan Events organisation and sponsored by McDonald's restaurants.
It featured over 80 circus acts and X-Games performers, choreographed to a 60 piece orchestra. The theme of the night being the history of Rock 'n Roll. The festivities began to a backdrop of early Rock 'n Roll hits and throuought the night progressed into today's modern rock.[1]
The event was held live at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland on August 23, 2006 and broadcast a couple of days later on local network TV3 on Saturday, 26 August 2006.
The charities that this event raised money for were:
- Ronald McDonald House
- Yellow Ribbon (Prevention of Youth Suicide)
- Child Cancer Foundation
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Performances
These are among some of the acts performed at the Cirque Rocks event.
- Plate Spinning
- Sunchasing
- X-Games bikers
- Trampolining
- Cage of Death
- Ramashov Russian Swings
- Troupe Mayarov Fast Track Tumbling
Cirque Rocks was a contemporary circus event and therefore did not use any performing animals.
Disappearance
On August 29, 2006, it was reported that a Chinese performer associated with the Chasing Sun chair balance act failed to turn up for her flight back to China. No further details are apparent and her disappearance remains a mystery.
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