[0] Trix Circo Mundial Tours Hartford and New York City.Business Editors/Lifestyle Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Logo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2000 General Mills  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . Cereal Sponsors the First Bilingual Latin-flavored Circus General Mills' Trix Cereal is proud to present Trix Circo Mundial, the first bilingual Latin-flavored circus, in Hartford June 2, 2000 to June 4, 2000, and in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of from June 9 to July 2, as part of a 14-city national tour. The circus will be located at the Jai Alai jai alai (hī`lī'), handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rubber ball that must be hurled against the front wall with the cesta, Park, 89 Weston Street in Hartford from June 2 to June 4; and in New York at Shea Stadium • • [ from June 9 - June 18; and at Macombs Dam Park Macombs Dam Park is a park in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The park is situated in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, between Jerome Avenue and the Major Deegan Expressway, near the Harlem River and the Macombs Dam Bridge. , 40 East 164th Street, in the Bronx across from Yankee Stadium • • [ , from June 21- July 2. Tickets can be obtained by calling Ticketmaster at 1-888-959-0595. Trix Circo Mundial is a single-ring circus that performs to the rhythms of salsa, merengue merengue Couple dance from the Dominican Republic or Haiti, danced throughout Latin America. Originally a folk dance, it has become a ballroom dance, where it is danced with a limping step, the weight always on the same foot. Varieties include the jaleo and juangomero. and other Latin beats. Audiences interact with a variety of stunts, trapeze acts and acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking done with spectacular Latin-flavored live music and folkloric costumes. The majority of the circus performers, artists and clowns are from Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as well as Hispanic communities in the United States. The tour is part of General Mills' continued commitment to serving the needs of Hispanic families. "We are excited to bring fun and entertainment to families across the country by sponsoring the first Latino-themed circus," stated Autumn Boos, ethnic marketing director for General Mills. "Trix Cereal is proud to sponsor this kind of family entertainment which contributes to enhancing the quality of life in Hispanic communities." The Trix Rabbit serves as master of ceremonies and Tio Chevere, from Colombia, is the ringmaster. The circus also hosts a variety of trapeze and aerial performers, comedic and musical acts, acrobatics and horse riders. A Puerto Rican corporation founded in 1998, Trix Circo Mundial has a strong commitment to children and to reaching physically and economically challenged Latino youth, senior citizens and hospitalized children and adults through their various outreach programs. The circus also strives to make the laughter and fun of classical circus arts accessible to the Spanish-speaking community by offering entertainment in a bilingual format. General Mills is a leading manufacturer and marketer of consumer food products, with annual sales of over $6 billion. Major U.S. businesses include Big G cereals; Betty Crocker dessert, side dishes and dinner mixes; snack products; Gold Medal flour; and Yoplait and Colombo yogurts. The company's expanding international operations include wholly owned businesses in Canada, Mexico and China, a snacks joint venture with PepsiCo in Europe, and a worldwide cereal joint venture with Nestle. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.060200/bb3 |
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