A Modern Circus Comes to Town for 3-Week Magic Fall Festival – Düsseldorf Festival!

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A Modern Circus Comes to Town for 3-Week Magic Fall Festival – düsseldorf festival!

A 22-year old festival returns to Düsseldorf with a new name and breath-taking, innovative magic, acrobatic, dance and theater performances – all over the city.  More than 600 international performers will enchant 25,000 visitors from September 12 – October 3, 2012, and the city invites visitors to dream, explore, and stay overnight amid the festival’s beauty.

Düsseldorf, Germany – “düsseldorf festival!” is the new name for a festival that has been sparking the inner magic of a city through magic performances for over two decades.  Formerly the “Altstadtherbst – Old Town Autumn,” the event is in its 22nd year and by now a bright star among festivals.  The variety, uniqueness and sophistication of the various shows and performers are so vast they burst out from under the umbrella term “modern circus” and spill into the streets of Düsseldorf’s Old Town to spread awe and joy for a solid 22 brilliant Fall days.

The new name is one attempt to do justice to the broadening of the festival in all directions.  Not only has the number of attendees been increasing steadily – 25,000 are expected, 5,000 more than just a few years ago – but also the international scope of the festival’s program, participants, and visitors.  More than 600 artists from all over the world will appear in the various performance spaces all over town.

Highlights include: “Les 7 Doigts de la Main” and “Cirkus Cirkör,” two groups whose circus show not only transcends traditional forms, but also seemingly gravity itself.  Redefining the limits of a genre is just one way to describe the art of “Zimmermann & de Perrot,” their dance, theater and acrobatics creating a universe all of its own.  Even music is used for the explosions of newness the program offers.  New ways to use instruments and voice are used by Baroque ensemble “I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca” and “Hilliard Ensemble,” respectively.  An amazing musical contrast is offered by the hip hop art of “Japanese Delight,” and Taiwanese artists of the “U Theatre” combine traditional drumming with Tai Chi for something new entirely.  “Söndörgö” and her effervescent Balkan sound fit in as much with the program as “Tony Allen’s Black Series feat. Amp Fiddler” and their afrobeat, funk, and soul, a style that has been described as “Nigeria meets Detroit.”

The city’s tourism office is offering hotel and city specials for düsseldorf festival!  Packages can be booked right from the tourism office’s website at www.duesseldorf-tourismus.de/en/hotel-packages/hotelpaket-zum-duesseldorf-festival/.  Prices start at €49 per night per person based on double-occupancy for a 2-3 star hotel in the city center and at €69 per person for a 4-5 star hotel.  All packages include breakfast, a Düsseldorf Welcome Card (free public transportation within city limits plus 30 free or reduced admissions to city attractions), and a city information package. Festival tickets are sold separately.

For more information and ticket sales for düsseldorf festival! visitwww.duesseldorf-festival.de. Tickets are available for the entire festival and for individual performances.

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Düsseldorf Marketing & Tourism GmbH is the visitors and convention bureau of the city of Düsseldorf. Its responsibilities include tourism and city marketing, as well as conference and meeting marketing, hotel reservation services, fairs and convention services, city event ticket sales and advance ticket reservations.  For more information, visit www.visitduesseldorf.de.                                         

Düsseldorf International Airport, Germany’s Next Generation Hub^TM, offers several non-stop flights from US & Canadian cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Ft. Myers, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Toronto, San Francisco, Vancouver), as well as convenient connections to many European cities.  For more information about the airport, visit www.fly2dus.com and http://dus-int.de/dus_en/.

U Theatre – photo: Lee Ming-Hsun

Zimmermann & de Perrot – photo: Mario Del Curto Strates

Cirkus Cirkör – photo: Mats Bäcker

Tony Allen’s Black Series feat. Amp Fiddler – photo: Rama

Les 7 Doigts de la Main – photo: David Poulin