Ringmaster Julia Swann welcomes the audience.

Photo by Patricia O’Blenes

Duo Dadiva performs acrobatics high up in the big top.

Photo by Patricia O’Blenes

NOVI — The Venardos Circus showed how ordinary people can go far beyond extraordinary as the performers lived their circus dreams.

The show at Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk Sept. 4-14 mesmerized many audience members with its intimate, boutique feel and vaudeville-style acts.

Julia Swann, a singing ringmaster who performs Broadway-style songs throughout the show, takes the audience on a journey that goes “far beyond” their wildest dreams and instructs them to “live their circus dreams.”

It features high-flying stunts by performers such as LadyBeast — who performed Harry Houdini’s straitjacket escape — aerial acts, plain-fa

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