Laya Healthcare City Spectacular: Do you have what it takes to join the team?

Once known as the World Street Performance Championship, it’s now the Laya Healthcare City Spectacular. Enchanted by the show for years, Ellie O’Byrne wanted to know what road leads you to earning your living as a professional contortionist, unicyclist or iron bender.

Contortionists, dancers, and body-modification fanatics: The globetrotting street performers who will take part in the Laya Healthcare City Spectacular in Dublin and Cork for two weekends in July risk life and limb and push themselves to the limits of their physical endurance, all in the name of entertainment.

More than 250,000 people will gather to watch 200 shows from some of the best in the business, making the Laya Healthcare City Spectacular the second biggest festival in Ireland after the St Patrick’s festival.