BACKSTAGE PASS: Hula-hooper Chiara Anastasini rehearses her routine (VIDEO)

By Heidi Kurpiela
| 4:00 a.m. June 29, 2010

Arts + Culture

This week’s Backstage Pass subject, 18-year-old Chiara Anastasini, practices her high-energy hula-hoop routine on stage at the Historic Asolo Theater before making her Circus Sarasota debut June 23. Anastasini, an Englewood resident, is a ninth-generation circus performer.

To see more on Chiara Anastasini, pick up a copy of this week's Arts & Entertainment section in The Observer.

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