A group of nine people from Zhejiang Folk Art & Acrobatics General Troupe Co. Ltd., at the invitation of the Swiss National Circus Knie and sent by China Performing Arts Agency set off on March 17th to Sweden for an eight-month commercial performance. They will perform Head Balancing there and this is their second trip to Swiss after 2006.
The performance Head Balancing , staged by Sun Xizhong and other performers, won the top award--Presidential Award of the Republic of France and the Golden Award at the 17thInternational Circus Festival of Massy, France in February, 2009 and the Golden Award at the 4th International Circus Festival in Russia in September of the same year. The performance also received a Guinness World Record certificate from the Guinness World Record Global Headquarters in London. In November, 2008, it won the Wen Hua Bronze Medal for Creation at the 7th China National Acrobatic Festival. The program Head Balancing attracted attention from all over the world and was also made into a feature program and broadcast by British Royal TV Station and Japan Fuji Television Network Inc. respectively.