Circus Bella: "Starlight" ★ ★ ★

Circus Bella's 2025 show "Starlight" is another romp through impossible feats of human strength, balance and ingenuity. After all, Ori Quesada, how did you decide to specialize in bouncing tin bowls to the top of your head while balancing on a board which is rolling on a ball? 

And you, Natasha Kaluza, Super Duper Hula Hooper, whose hula hoopery we recognize from previous years, when did you realize you were able to spin a hula hoop both down and up? We have tried. Has no one told you this is not possible?

And the band - operating now without the late Rob Reich but as much fun and perhaps even more virtuosic than in previous years - how do you lose your leader but bounce back with such power and joy?

lt's a special pleasure to see Circus Bella under its little Big Top in the Crossing at East Cut downtown. We are happy this relatively new San Francisco holiday tradition seems to be set for now and into the future.

"Circus Bella"

The Crossing at East Cut

Howard and Beale Streets

San Francisco

Through Jan 4, 2025

$58-$78