Worlds collide and so do a horde of local acrobats for the world's first and only Stefanefit, a benefit for injured Austrian National Team Sport Acrobat, Stefan Furst. Members of DoJump, Circus Artemis, Imago, and Night Flight Aerial present an anything-goes circus filled with spectacle, things you do not see coming, and people with impossible agility.
Portland’s acrobatic community comes together for a spinning, juggling, backflipping, contorting benefit for “former Austrian National Team sport acrobat” Stefan Furst. Furst, who has trained a number of performers at Do Jump! and local gymnastics organizations, was injured in a windsurfing accident and can’t work. Benefit organizer (and ninja band Fist of Dishonor frontwoman) Tera Nova Zarra says the community just wants to give back to a man who has helped them all so much. Expect performances from aerialists Night Flight, fire dancer Shireen Press, juggler Curtis Carlyle and Brittany Walsh (think handstands and bow and arrows) and a slew of Do Jump!-ers, among others. But the giving doesn’t stop at Furst—the Vienna-born acrobat will in turn give part of the proceeds raised for his medical bills to Haiti relief.
