Busker HoF – 126 Cirque No Problem

In this episode, Clarke McFarlane, aka Mario Queen of the Circus takes his first stab at interviewing and I think he did a fantastic job aided by the fact the couple he interviewed he’s known for quite some time and they have a great rapport and history together. That couple is Uri and Noah of Cirque No Problem. They are one of the many fantastic acts that have come out of Israel. Noah and Uri talk about their long history together and how they built their first show in India in 2002, put it out on the streets of Europe, got booked and then married. They talk about creating their signature trapeze act and not being aerialists. Uri talks about how he took a leap of faith and started doing shows in Tel Aviv at the age of 13, and of the dramatic shift of going to Lecoq, which he thought was a juggling school, when he got out of the army where he taught the deadly martial art of Krav Maga. They tell Clarke about the joy of traveling in a van throughout Europe, which Uri calls the nuclear submarine, and their shift to becoming a non-traveling act and now performing their current stage show. There’s a ton of content in the interview as well as great stories and plenty of laughs.