What the?

I saw this article today for this show. I have never heard of this before, dont know who is producing it or anything. But it sounds very nice.
-with love and respect...

"Hip-hop dancers and circus performers have a lot in common. They both need to be agile and coordinated and have cat-quick reflexes. In fact, they have so much in common that they've joined forces to create the hybrid art form known as urban circus arts - a combination of traditional circus skills and hip-hop moves, such as break-dancing.
The Bay Area is the epicenter of this new movement, in part because of organizations such as San Francisco's AcroSports, a training center for traditional circus arts founded in part by members of the renowned Moscow Circus 15 years ago.
City Circus, the performance arm of Acro Sports, is putting on a new show called "And If We Shadows" that should prove to be a helpful primer on the burgeoning urban circus arts phenomenon. The title is part of a line from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream": "And if we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended."
Set as a day in the life of the various performers of the genre, the show features break-dancers, aerialists, a contortionist and some parkour acrobats (acrobats who perform very dangerous stuff like you'd see in a James Bond movie). The multiethnic cast ranges in age from 14 to 34.
City Circus Artistic Director Tim Barsky, who writes and directs the performance, describes the show as being like " 'Rent,' with a teenage circus angle." There are interconnected scenes about the performers' struggles interspersed with the high-flying antics of showstoppers like award-winning aerialist Brett Womack, who was judged best aerial act at the American Circus Festival in 2006.
On the hip-hop side of life, break-dancing icons Iron Monkey and Finesse break new ground by working with a static aerial hoop, diving through it and jumping off of it.
"It's handcrafted circus," says Barsky. "Cirque du Soleil is amazing, but of course what you're seeing is culture from somewhere else. This is homegrown."
"And If We Shadows" also incorporates elements of one of hip-hop's latest transformations: the Oakland-bred form known as hyphy. While this aspect of hip-hop has been associated with Oakland's notorious car-sideshow culture, Barsky reassures that "As If We Shadows" is a family-friendly event.
"If all you've heard about hyphy is sideshows and trouble and bad lyrics, this is a chance to see the classical art form of hip-hop," Barsky says. "There's no swearing, no violence. None of the things they think of when they think of hip-hop."
8 p.m. Fri., 3 and 8 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. Through May 25. $12.50 general, $25 reserved. Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th St., San Francisco. (415) 665-2276. www.citycircus.org."