No professional world is richer in character, characters and astonishing creative magic than the modern circus universe, yet even against that lush background, Jerry Snell stands out.
Rock star, spectacle designer/director/choreographer, and radical political firebrand, Snell has also found time to build life-transforming bridges between Canada's rich circus renaissance and Asia's youth at risk.
His archived achievement site introduces his many facets, but all you need to recognize his genius is the following teaser for his latest tour de force.
He will be in India this November and December and we shall be inviting his alchemical assistance as we plan our early shows...
FLASH, a production of Jerry Snell Industries and the National Theatre of Taiwan
Clip from first Shakti album - Dr. McLaughlin starts it all... A Meeting by the River by Ry Cooder & Vishwa M. Bhatt - Ry told us about this magic gig in '94 which inspired Kyoto Coven Works Meeting in Summertime - first trans-genre experiment from Kyoto Coven Works Tsuyu Typhoon Janis' Summertime - for the sweet hell of it from Shakti's ultimate Yankee avatar...