In a sea of unpleasant news last month we were happy to see something inspirational pop-up. It was a notice from the circus company Dragone explaining how their costume department was keeping busy during quarantine by helping people stay safe from Coronavirus. They are making masks for people. Dragone, like every circus company around the world, has been hit hard by the pandemic, especially because several of their shows (The Han Show & The Dai Show) )were centered in Wuhan and Xishuangbanna and had to close down entirely and early in the quarantine cycle. 

I spoke to Claudine Cornet, communication consultant at Dragone about the experience of making the masks. Cornet says she has “been working on costumes and at Dragone more generally since the very beginning of the Dragone adventure in Belgium in the early 2000’s.” ...