Cirque de la Symphonie is this weekend at Robinson Center Music Hall pic

  • “Cirque de la Symphonie” is this weekend at Robinson Center Music Hall.

ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: ‘CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE’
8 p.m. Robinson Center Music Hall. $10-$58.

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What goes really well with a boisterous orchestra performing a lineup of lively classics? How about high-flying acrobatics? Sound good? Of course it does.

In this, the fifth installment of the Acxiom Pops Live Series, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will be joined by a talented array of dancers — mostly from Russia — who’ll perform feats of derring-do, including acts of contortion, dance, acrobatics, juggling, balancing and that thing where they hang and twirl around in midair on really long pieces of fabric.

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Musical highlights include Strauss’ “Overture to Die Fledermaus,” selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty Suite,” Debussy’s “Suite Bergamasque: Claire de Lune” and works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet, Bartok and more. Geoffrey Robson conducts. The program also runs Sunday at 3 p.m.