🗓️ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | 7:30 PM
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The Peking Acrobats in Ogden will stack chairs two stories high, balance a single performer at the top on one hand, and hold every person in Austad Auditorium completely still. Onstage Ogden brings nearly four decades of gravity-defying Chinese acrobatics to Weber State University on Sunday, February 7, 2027.
Since 1986, this troupe of 25 performers has redefined what audiences expect from Chinese acrobatics. Towering human pagodas, precision tumbling, contortion that seems to bend the laws of physics, trick cycling, foot juggling, and gymnastics fill the stage while live musicians play traditional Chinese instruments alongside every feat. This is not a recorded soundtrack backing a stunt show. It is a full sensory experience: ancient athletic discipline fused with modern stagecraft.
They hold a Guinness World Record for the Human Chair Stack and have appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven. They’ve performed alongside the Atlanta Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. And every year, a new group of China’s most gifted acrobats joins the tour, performers who began training as children and carry centuries of tradition in every flip and balance.
The timing feels right. February 7 falls the day after Lunar New Year, making this a vivid, kinetic celebration of Chinese culture at its most thrilling. Austad Auditorium’s intimate scale puts the audience close enough to hear the chairs creak and the musicians breathe. Families, couples, lifelong circus fans, and people who have never seen anything like this will all leave the same way: wide-eyed.
The last time the Peking Acrobats played Ogden in 2023, the show nearly sold out. If you were there, or at Cirque Mechanics or Troupe Vertigo, you already know this feeling. If you weren’t, this is your night.
Onstage Ogden presents The Peking Acrobats at Austad Auditorium, Weber State University. Sunday, February 7, 2027. 7:30 PM.
