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An award-winning, sold-out solo show from one of the world's best hand balancers and Dear San Francisco cast member Junru Wang, Body as an Archive is an autobiographical journey that traces the artist’s childhood shaped by military circus training and joining Cirque du Soleil at nine, and her transformation from obedience to owning her body and voice.
The show opens with a nine-year-old girl making her premiere with Cirque du Soleil before tracing backward to a four-year-old child mesmerized by a contortion act at her uncle’s wedding, the moment that pulled her into a brutal military-style circus system.
Training becomes both home and battlefield, where discipline is shaped through repetition, pain, and control. Part confession, part endurance ritual, the piece moves from obedience and survival toward the reclaiming of the body, the voice, and ultimately, her own artistry.
NOTE: Show contains descriptions of violence, domestic violence and child abuse, appropriate for ages 8+
