fictional town of Tumbleweed. The performance included portrayals of historical figures including Lillie Langtry, Black Bart, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp, and featured a seven-man highwire pyramid, becoming the second youth circus to complete this trick. 2013: Oz, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The performance retold Dorothy Gale's travels through the Land of Oz and incorporated a "maison" trapeze, a cubic apparatus replicating Dorothy's house that gets swept away and carried to Oz by a tornado. 2014: Neverland, incorporating elements from the world of Peter Pan and featuring a cradle act. 2015: 1001 Nights, a retelling of Scheherazade's One Thousand and One Nights. 2016: Wonderland, an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 2017: Nordrsaga, a hero's journey based on Norse mythology in which a young librarian teams up with Thor to help recover Mjölnir from Loki. 2018: Steam, a steampunk time travel tale inspired by H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 2019: Twisted, a retelling in which several fairy tale characters rewrite their own stories. : None, cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021: Galaxium, a performance set on the fictional planet of the same name in which an industrialist attempts to determine what became of her great-great grandparents' lost mission a century before. 2022: Confetti, a show commemorating pivotal moments in the history of the circus arts. Big top holiday shows 2020: A Hygge Holiday, narrated by Kevin Kling. 2021: Blizzard!, a performance about three elves at the North Pole who cause trouble. 2022: Solstice, a show about woodland characters attempting to save the winter by saving Jack Frost. Other engagements In addition to shows at their Saint Paul big top, Juventas students have performed across the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area and at domestic and international shows and competitions. Performers have appeared at local events including the Saint Paul Winter Carnival, Minneapolis mayor R. T. Rybak's 2002 inauguration at the Minneapolis City Hall, and at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Flint Hills International Children's Festival. Students have presented their work at a variety of local public, retail, and theater spaces. Students have also participated non-Juventas shows, including a 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival production, the 2005 world premiere of Tin Forest with the Minnesota Orchestra at Orchestra Hall, the Children's Theatre Company's 2008 stage adaptation of Madeline and the Gypsies,