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A peek inside Lone Star’s summer camp might reveal gravity-defying tumbling teenagers, girls swinging from rainbow-colored silks affixed to towering ceilings, a boy in big shoes balancing a plunger on his nose while a woman encircled by children waxes lyrical about mindfulness and discipline — while handstanding.

The circus school has proved fertile soil for quiet or eccentric people to take root and find camaraderie and confidence, according to the handstanding teacher.

“They go from being shy, head down, to weeks later being very outgoing, like saying ‘how’s it going’ to everyone they see.”

Circus has always been one of the most inclusive cultures known to humans, Kerwich says, “the essence of diversity.”

“You like to be very weird, and you like to juggle? You can spend hours doing that. You are extremely big, and you want to be a base for an acrobat to fly above you? We’re gonna celebrate each individual. Your background is from this, from that, you don’t speak English? It doesn’t matter because we don’t talk. We express ourselves.”

Through September, Lone Star Circus members put on the “Summer of Cirque” at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grand Prairie. The show features feats of balance, strength and magic, bowand-arrows fired by toes and a dozen or so hula hoops maneuvered at once by a fit, petite platinum blonde. That’s Fanny Kerwich, who has grown more charismatic in the 20 years since Kaleidoscope came to town.

During those two decades she also has created and directed shows for Dallas Scottish Rite and Dallas Children’s Theater and appeared in the Dallas Opera’s Great Scott . Her Le Petit Lone Star Circus won Best of Loop at Watertower Theater’s Fringe Festival.

In 2016 she worked with singer Erykah Badu, who performed at Lone Star Circus’ 10th annual fundraising celebration.

“She was really good, like she must have been a circus person back in another life,” Kerwich says.

Despite marrying a normie, Fanny transferred circus genes to her daughter, Gitana “Gigi” Doyle, 17, a cheerleader at Ursuline Academy and an awarded silks aerialist for Lone Star.

Kerwich and Doyle’s 15-year-old son is a showman in his own right who started his vintage clothing business at 10, riding his bike to Goodwill, buying ’80s T-shirts and selling them online. He takes it seriously and has set up a little shop in a backyard shed, Kerwich says.

Not much surprises Fanny Kerwich, colleague to sword swallowers and contortionists, but she is sometimes nonplussed by the lack of attention afforded Lone Star Circus in its hometown.

“We just did an international competition. It was like the Olympics of the circus. And I don’t think anybody in Dallas knew about it,” she says. “We are pretty famous all over the world, but maybe a little bit less famous in Dallas for some reason.”

Perhaps it’s the name. If it was called Cirque du DFW, something exotic and European, maybe people here would think it was higher art, she concedes.

“But I’m proud to call it Lone Star Circus,” she says. “Our name is vibrant, charismatic and making its point.” lonestarcircus.com