Catapult, Justin Flom perform in St. George
By Gerard Gibbs
March is the month the 2018–19 Celebrity Concert Series concludes with two spectacular shows at Cox Auditorium: Catapult March 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Justin Flom March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Catapult is a shadow dance company performing an amazingly imaginative combination of dance, storytelling, and sculpture. Founded in 2009 by Adam Battlestein, Catapult catapulted to fame on season eight of America’s Got Talent.
Catapult is all about the human body and its ability to transform. The talented Catapult dancers work behind a screen to create seemingly impossible dancing shadow images of shapes from the world around us. You won’t believe your eyes as you watch these incredible dancers become a mountain, a full-size elephant, a helicopter, and a house with a window and people inside the window. You will never figure out how they do it, and you won’t know what they will make next. You will be surprised and delighted again and again. Audiences of all ages love what appear to be effortless transformations and applaud over and over as more and more unbelievable images appear.
But Catapult’s theatrical touring production is not just a series of shape transformations. The show is full of humor, emotion, and engaging stories told through music and shadows, and between the delightful stories are brief moments of poetry or humor that perfectly cleanse the palate and prepare the audience for their next shadow journey. Audiences leave this show dazed and happy, and they will never look at their own shadow the same way again! For the 2019–20 season, Catapult’s theatrical touring show will be a brand new production, mixing magical fan favorites from previous tours with a captivating new piece called “MouZart,” which tells the story of a musical mouse living in Mozart’s house. MouZart was specially commissioned by the famous Mozart Festival in Salzburg.
Justin Flom has a magical life. From touring with Florida Georgia Line and creating magic for other stars and companies including Coca-Cola, Hobby Lobby, Lady Antebellum, Super Bowl coach Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks, John Legend, Nick Jonas, and Chrissy Teigen, Flom finds himself in front of as diverse an audience as any entertainer. His tours take him to buildings like Madison Square Garden to megachurches and amphitheaters across the U.S. He truly has the ability to entertain anyone, anywhere.
Whether appearing on Ellen, The Today Show, Rachael Ray, Network Late Night Shows, with WWE Wrestling stars, or on his own show, Flom has found a home in front of the lens. In addition to national shows, Flom has also starred in various commercials for Coke, American Airlines, CMT and Kellogg’s while authoring a book on magic for children called “Everyday Magic” and co-authoring a book on his life called “Adventures of A Kid Magician.”
After graduating high school and spending a few years entertaining audiences, Justin began posting videos on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and anywhere else he could find an outlet online. The efforts paid off when the staff of Las Vegas Weekly named him “Best Up-And-Coming Entertainer” in their 2013 Weekly Awards. Fast forward to today and he has been viewed over a billion times on his on platforms and others.
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