Here is a preview of a very intriguing performance:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B><A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/29/PK90955.DTL" TARGET=_blank>Flying With God, War and Sex<BR>Cirque Batard puts social issues into the ring</A></B><P>Bob Graham, SF Chronicle Senior Writer Sunday, October 29, 2000 <P>Two years ago, Keith Hennessy ran away with the circus. Now the San Francisco performance artist is coming back in a show that defies easy classification. <P>It is circus, performance art, dance, music and theater. For starters.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>[This message has been edited by Azlan (edited August 09, 2001).]

Cirque Bâtard, a multi-disciplined, quasi-circus and modern dance show is performing in SF. Here is a review:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B><A HREF="http://url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/11/03/WEEKEND11214.dtl" TARGET=_blank>Cirque Bâtard unclear on its concept</A></B><P>Robert Hurwitt, SF Examiner<P>Routines are clever, but the philosophy doesn't quite click <P>WATCHING Linet Andrea clamber clumsily atop a table and pull herself onto a trapeze, you know it's a setup. Despite her ungainly bathing-suit-and-platform-shoes costume and awkward battle with the ropes, the sole female member of the French-American Compagnie Cahin-Caha's Cirque Bâtard is bound to astonish us with her aerial artistry.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

And another review:<P><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B><A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/04/DD65508.DTL" TARGET=_blank>Metaphysical<BR>Circus show `raWdoG' combines raucous energy with philosophical ramblings</A></B><P>Steven Winn, SF Chronicle<P>Every circus needs something unforgettable. ``RaWdoG,'' the ferociously energetic and screwy French American chamber circus that opened Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, gets it in a rope act near the end of the 80- minute spectacle.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Another review:<P><BR><B><A HREF="http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/35/06/big.html" TARGET=_blank>Big tops</A></B><BR>Compagnie Cahin-Caha plays some games. <BR>By Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian<BR>

A clever one from the Contra Costa Times:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><B><A HREF="http://www.contracostatimes.com/timeout/stories_feattop/x9batard_20001109.htm" TARGET=_blank>Cirque Batard's 'raWdoG' is a howling good time</A></B><BR>Gender-bending circus features the normal fare, with an adult sense of humor <P>By Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times<P>THINK BARNUM and Fellini.<P>No, maybe the Ringling Bros. and Caligula.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><BR><B><A HREF="http://www.contracostatimes.com/timeout/stories_feattop/x9batard_20001109.htm" TARGET=_blank>The full article</A></B>