{"id":9676,"date":"2014-11-26T03:30:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:05:53","slug":"trip-to-peru-limas-street-theatre-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2014\/trip-to-peru-limas-street-theatre-renaissance\/9676\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Peru: Lima’s street theatre renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some words of travel advice: On your trip to Peru, take some time to stop and explore before you skip off from Lima to Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n

For those who do, there is some of the world’s best food, fabulous hotels and amazing museums.<\/p>\n

But there is another payoff: a grand spectacle of inventive dancers, musicians, mimes and artists who are fueling a street theater renaissance in the Spanish colonial city center.<\/p>\n

Strolling own Jiron de la Union, you’ll see a crowd gathered as the performance begins with tasty hot guitar licks.<\/p>\n

\"Touring<\/p>\n

In some cases, the venue is a side street. The performer might being playing more traditional music on a beat-up steel string acoustic guitar, using ingeniously improvised equipment to amplify his voice and instrument.<\/p>\n

\"Manuel<\/p>\n

Up the block, an artist with colored chalk works on a piece of religious art.<\/p>\n

\"Lima
\nNight falls, and the spectacle turns surreal. The laws of physics go out the window.<\/p>\n

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A man stands motionless, holding a bamboo pole straight up.<\/p>\n

Above him, his companion is suspended in mid-air, grasping the bamboo with the seemingly effortless grip of a jazz bass-player…<\/p>\n

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\"Mime<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Lima<\/div>\n

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