News and events

High Wire Bicycle Act Falls Off the Wire in Stuttgart
At the Christmas Circus in Stuttgart during a premiere on Wednesday evening, several artists fell to the ground in front…

Chimelong Forms Strategic Cooperation With International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
Reviews

Who Brought the Jugglers to the Metropolitan Opera?
When the curtain rose on Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” last month, Sean Gandini was sitting twenty feet above the Metropolitan…

Circus Goes Atomic! Spiegelworld’s New Show Goes from Edinburgh to the Las Vegas Strip
Education

CSAW Introduces Its International Circus School Ambassadors
I spent three years applying and auditioning for professional circus schools before I found the right one for me. I…

Salto International Circus School–Portugal’s Professional Circus School Helps Students Discover Their Full Potential
Meet the Organization

LEME CIRCUS FORUM “Matters”
LEME CIRCUS FORUM will take place from the 5th to the 8th of December 2019 as a joint project organized…

Quick Talk with Tara Jacob, New Executive Director of the American Youth Circus Organization
Advice

Why You Need a Video Trailer for Your Circus Show– Advice from Double Take Cinematic Circus
Recent research has shown some startling information about video content online. By 2020 80% of consumer social media content will…
Social Circus

Pulitzer Center Brings Circus Without Borders Filmmakers and Acrobats to DC Schools
180 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from Washington, DC sat forward at the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theater in…

Why a Longsight Circus School is Prescribing Juggling and Trapeze to Cope with Anxiety
Research

Circus as a Healing Art: What Polyvagal Theory Teaches Us About Why Circus Works
If you’re involved in the circus world, you’ve likely heard people talk about the healing power of circus, whether they’re…
Meet the Artist

Two Circus Theatre Artists from Australia Explain How the Form is a Mix of Both Acrobatics and Theatre
Is it dance? Is it acrobatics? Is it theatre? No, it is circus theatre! If one asks the two performers…

The Hideaway Podcast Interview with Dominique Jando, Internationally Renowned Circus Historian

Ask a Clown Anything–An Audience Generated Interview with Les Foutoukours
History

Colliding Expectations: Cautionary Tale from the Circus
It was the widespread use of trains that finally got the circus business on track. But wild success also brought…

The Hartford Courant Let Survivors of a Tragic 75-Year-Old Circus Fire Tell Their Own Stories
Obituary

Carlos Raluy, a Seminal Figure of Spanish Traditional Circus, Has Died
Carlos Raluy (Sant Adrià del Besòs, 1944), creator and co-founder of Circus Raluy has died in Barcelona yesterday, his family…

The Founder of the Quebec Circus School Loses His Life in a Sailing Accident
Opinion

“Go Beyond the Stereotype”: A Thoughtful Discussion Regarding Gender, Binaries, and Contemporary Circus
“As a female base, I realized that by literally lifting people up, I could quickly change audience perception. I had…
