The Inexistent Secret To Auditioning
…is the question of whether or not your personality and professionalism will fit with whatever team is going to be creating the work. Globally these things will fall into priorities,…
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Jacksons Lane Appeals for Public Support Amidst Funding Challenges
…profound opportunities for young people to express themselves, build confidence, and enhance their wellbeing, governmental funding structures especially lately fall short in supporting these crucial aspects. Compounded by escalating cuts…
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Tilde Björfors: A Woman with A Circus Heart
…and they take. Companies rise and fall. “I think the whole world, we are in a very rough period and this is also for the arts and for artists. And…
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How to Slow Down – A Guide for Type A Personalities
…quality because I find myself thinking about it as I try to fall asleep. So, decide when you will finish working and stick to it. Put your phone/laptop in another…
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Casting in the Age of the Cloud – Part 4: 7 Video Audition No Nos
…to what level of proficiency. This may fall in the category of common sense, but it is still important to keep in mind because most hirers don’t have time for…
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Mastering the Creative Mindset with Sofranie Trencia Part 2
…Sofranie’s career took a fateful turn when she suffered a fall while performing on stage, ending her performance career, and ushering in a period of profound burnout that left her…
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Career Lab Sessions – Mastering the Creative Mindset with Sofranie Trencia Part 1
…took a fateful turn when she suffered a fall while performing on stage, ending her performance career, and ushering in a period of profound burnout that left her bedridden for…
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Entre Chien et Louves: How Cirque Leroux Looks to the Future
…are surprised, fall in love and come to hate, reassure and attach themselves to the characters—experiencing alongside them the torments that agitate them. Poetry is never absent from Cirque Leroux’s…
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An Invitation to Create/Lessons From the Lake
…me as I cautiously stepped down onto its frozen surface; trepidatious of the unlikely chance that I might fall through. As I stood firmly with both feet on the lake,…
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Epicirq 2023: Heading Towards Diversity in Baltic Circus
…shared experience (at one point in the show, Grete asks the audience to stand up and not to let the thin material that separates the artist from the audience fall…
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Celebrating Circus and Life: Chamäleon’s Series 2024 “Play” Unveils a Dazzling Kaleidoscope of Acrobatics, Poetry, and Wit
…the two figures made of cloth and wood. An intimate ride between flight and fall, slapstick and thriller. As the follow-up to the production WIR WOLLEN NIE NIE – presented…
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Chamäleon Theater: A Century of Shaping Berlin’s Arts Scene
…cabaret acts of all kinds, wild acts that reflected the city’s newfound freedom after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the people’s excitement to explore their new city. Fast-forward….
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The Release of a New Guide on Space Development For Circus Training And Equipment
What is a safe and functional circus arts practice space? A new guide is published in the fall of 2023 in Quebec called “Guide d’aménagement des espaces de formation et…
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Last Waltz: Developing a Methodology for Partnering in Aerial Dance
…including the risk of falling, beginning training typically focuses on individual skill acquisition and solo performance. Training for partnering, defined as two dancers sharing one apparatus, involves re-calibrating foundational aerial…
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Florida’s Circus Arts Conservatory Unveils a Diverse Circus Program for the 2023-2024 Season
…April 2024 (date TBD); Sailor Circus Arena; (tickets on sale this fall). The hot electronic dance music concert/fundraiser returns for a second year, with proceeds benefiting the CAC’s youth education…
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LEME 2023 – Exploring the Boundaries of Circus and Space
…of life, chase meaning like a cat chases a string, and hopefully fall back into the fractured nature of human thoughts and actions. The chicken has already crossed the street,…
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Why “Networking” Isn’t the Dirty Word it’s Made Out to Be
…in and of themselves fall short of guaranteeing our success. What’s even more frustrating is that it’s true. Our talent alone is not enough to secure top billing. And why…
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3AM Theatre Announces Inaugural 2023 Fall Season
…generating and presenting new work, and bringing together a community of like-minded people,” says Driggs. . Here are highlights from their inaugural fall season: ESREVER is a blend of live…
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Jewels of the Past: The British Music Hall Society Launches Conference
…span fall numerous 6- and 20-minute talks on topics like historic aerialists, jugglers, and American vaudeville acts on the British stage, as well as speakers such as circus researcher Heather…
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Hupstate Circus Festival: For Circus By Circus! – Interview With Amy Cohen
In the US, Labor Day weekend always signals the end of summer and the beginning of fall routines. Vacationers get their last trips in, kids, parents and teachers prepare for…
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Spotlighting Singaporean Circus Artists and Aerialists at Flipside 2023
…performers to showcase their talent, and inspiring audiences young and old to irrevocably fall in love with circus. All images in this article credited to photographer Rogan Yeoh. Main Image:…
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Cannonball Takes the Plunge into Third Year with Over 150+ Shows at Philly Fringe
…premiered as part of Cannonball’s Miniball festival in April 2023 and returns to Cannonball this fall as a BIPOC New Work Track recipient. Gardeners playfully (re)imagines what remains of Eden…
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Almanac Dance Circus Theatre Tours Northeast with “Communitas”
…performance destination.” In Communitas, human sculptures and acrobatic encounters animate the tale of the founding of a civilization. Four performers tumble, climb, fly and fall in a physical language of…
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Voloz Collective Hits Edinburgh Fringe: The Sporadic Life of Jess Wildgoose
…style with a story of one woman’s meteoric rise to success and devastating fall from grace. This show is as fantastical as it is relatable and will take audiences on…
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An Interview With Shana Carroll, Member of the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec
…circus. Also, we still fall into an uncomfortable (and sometimes genuinely dangerous) crack. I see this now as a creator: more and more other forms want circus elements in their…
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Circus Juventas Professional Students Land First Paid Gig at Circus World’s Opening Weekend
…chase our dreams! Who will steal the loot? Who will fall in love? Will they make it back home? Come find out on our journey to Fools Gold! Circus Juventas’…
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Digital Business Models in Performing Arts – Part 3: Hybrid Business Models and Extended Reality Technologies in Performing Arts
…Toulouse, France, with aerial silks as her specialty. However, destiny took an unexpected turn in 2016 when Corinne, while working as a circus artist, experienced a life-altering accident: a fall…
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Is non-binary the modern feminism? An interview with Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard
…“What is the perception of femininity that society instills in us? And how does this perception, and the behaviors that come with that perception, encourage me to fall into a…
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Now on the Circus Jobs Market: Disney, Cirque, Feld and More Large Productions
…As Feld Entertainment has announced the long-awaited return of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus’ live production The Greatest Show On Earth® that will debut in fall 2023, right…
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Touring Shows: An abridged summary of important points
…fall under the purview of the Technical Director. It’s important to remember that while touring staff have titles and duties, we are all on the same team and have the…
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SUNSET CIRCUS Returns to NYC
Following a New York City premiere at Lincoln Center in the fall of 2022, Parallel Exit presents SUNSET CIRCUS from May 20-27, 2023 at 3AM Theatre, 920 35th Avenue, Queens,…
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Against the Odds, They Resist: Behind the French Trapeze Troupe That Flourished at Cirque de Demain
…trapeze artists were like angels who had come to collect the bodies of the fallen and take them to heaven. “Les Cigognes” helped confirm the idea that the flying trapeze…
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What You Want To Say In Your Resignation
…Your troubles fall away as each new drink is ordered and PM turns to AM. But when you are in need of telling someone who pushes paperwork more often than…
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The Rainbow is Enuf: an evolution, a healing, a joy
…Is the rainbow enuf? It’s a statement, it’s a question, and it pays homage to the original text.” Staged Stories I saw The Rainbow is Enuf in the fall of…
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Miniball Festival Returns to Put Artists on Fast Track to Philly Fringe
From April 1-8, the Miniball Festival, presented by Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, returns this spring to lay the groundwork for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in the fall. Alongside a slew…
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Retirement Planning for Performers: Choosing the Right Plan for Your Financial Goals
…new year, I find that many of us attempt to establish financial savings habits, especially for the long term, but often fall short due to the challenges we face relating…
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In 2023, Monte-Carlo Festival Shows Many Shades of Tigers and Somersaults
…instant, the wrists of his catcher, only to slip again and fall into the net. Sabrina cries. Sabrina dell’Acqua comes from a very old Italian circus dynasty, as does her…
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Career Lab Sessions – Marketing for Performers: Getting Gigs Pt. 2 with Rachel Strickland
…is available on the website, so you can be notified of the upcoming fall 2023 cycle! https://youtu.be/XTvieX7c31w For inquiries and more information, visit Rachel’s profile on CircusTalk! You are about…
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Circus Center Names Juliana Neves as First-Ever Head of School
…the Paris Opera and the professional circus-dance production Jump or Fall in Belgium to the student show B-orders at the Palestinian Circus School. Neves holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology…
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Books That Speak to Us: Announcing Morgan Anderson’s New Book Review Series
…revisit my old hobby. Since the fall of 2020, I have read well over 100 books and have been creating video content on YouTube about the books I read. A…
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Career Lab Sessions – Marketing for Performers: Getting Gigs Pt. 1 with Rachel Strickland
…so you can be notified of the upcoming fall 2023 cycle. The Audacity Project program is for aerialists, performers, and freelance performing artists—and packed with no-nonsense, actionable tasks that get…
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Protecting Your Energy As A Performer
…The key is to make sleep a priority. When we are kids, we have strict bedtime routines that help us fall asleep. We think that our adult selves don’t need…
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In the Snow and on the Streets – “Circus Artists Are Gradually Sneaking Everywhere”
…as in the fall. Establishing stability is important from this perspective, but often artist-driven events must assemble their budgets from various sources, whose continuity from year to year is not…
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Cirque de Demain Festival Returning to the Global Stage in 2023
…Medal of the 6th Festival in 1983, Founder & CEO of Angels Mongolian Modern Circus, President of the Mongolian Contortion Association, MONGOLIA Markus Pabst, Artist, Artistic Director BASE – Berlin,…
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Leaving Traces: Looking at the Anatomy and Health of Circus Artists with Faon Shane
…act can be, the possibility of a fall or some injury is somewhat omnipresent in the artist’s subconscious. Their nervous system engages at full speed to assure that they will…
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Let’s Talk About Recovery
…noted that sleep disruption, either an inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep, is a symptom of overtraining. Adequate Nutrition Let’s do a quick review: recovery includes restoration of…
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Overcoming Stage Fright
…and static about us. On one day we might shine, while on another, we might fall short of a certain challenge. Mistakes happen. It is the same for everyone and…
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The Creative Force Behind the New ‘Very Cirque’ Podcast
…to share these stories so they wouldn’t fall into oblivion! So I talked to my collaborators and friends at Cirque du Soleil, and they were very enthusiastic about the idea….
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Elisa Tauro, Acrobat at Cirque du Soleil’s “O” Part 1
…probably have something to fall back on in case something happened, and I couldn’t perform anymore. You just never know what will happen when performing. This time at university I…
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Miniball Brings Fringe Festival Energy to Philadelphia
…in a Black Sci-fi Christian home in the Bronx. My childhood was full of time travel, prayers, and the planet trying to recover from the apocalypse. There were Angels and…
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Smashing Traditions: Gandini Juggling Turns 30
…he had no idea that the beginning of Gandini Circus would fall into his lap. The idea of mashing together the artistry of juggling and dance started the moment that…
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New York’s Bindlestiff Family Cirkus’ Flatbed Follies Took the Show on the Road With Free Performances in Every Borough
…rolled through the summer and into the fall, with the final shows in Queens and the Bronx on October 30. Over the six-month season, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presented 96 shows…
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STREB EXTREME ACTION Shares Its Thrilling Feats Of Physicality, Grace, Strength, And Risk With Williamsburg In FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN
STREB EXTREME ACTION is pleased to bring shows back to their home space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM). This fall’s performances, FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN, will…
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Hot Off the Presses! The Latest in Circus Science Medicine Research
…object,the ground, another artist? Was the contact direct or indirect? Is it an acute onset with a sudden injury– like a fall – or a repetitive movement that either gradually…
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Prominent Circus Development Centre in Helsinki Gains a New Director – An Interview with Cirko’s Jarkko Lehmus
…and support the professionalisation of circus in Finland. Cirko has four main models of activity: artistic development centre, presenter, production house and commercial circus operator. The activities that fall under…
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Circus and its Allied Arts: the Broad Galaxy of Circus at Edinburgh Fringe
…bodies, in two of the most regularly sold-out shows at the Fringe. In both cases, intimate love stories between human beings. Between those two opposites fall an endless variety of…
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Contemporary Circus 101: A Back-to-School Circus Book List
…relationship to circus aid in your understanding of theoretical ideas? Congratulations to all the students starting classes in circus arts, circus studies, and related fields this fall – and happy…
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Australia’s National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) Seeking Applicants for 2023
Want to kick off your career by practicing circus arts at a world-class institute? Beginning this September, Australia’s National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is looking for students to join…
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Circus and Philosophy: Teaching Aristotle Through Juggling
…at it. The bars are low, the activities are accessible; participation is easy. Acro-balancing in Circus and Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, fall 2017 Circus, as a discipline, can…
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“Choosing Both”: Help Circus Moms to the Next Stage with Trainer Mayumi Yamamoto
…enough strength, flexibility, and endurance to fly over the audience again, and those artists fall into the hole of the medical system. Many artists decide when to return to general…
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New Faces in the Spotlight: Art and Ideals with Aerialist Clara Laurent
…an act during my second year. In the fall of my graduating year, we were a few months into the pandemic, and the 2020 election was coming up in the…
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From Nairobi to the UK, The Black Blues Brothers Bring Old Soul into Modern Circus
…classic 80s film with the acrobatic feats of contemporary circus. Launching another tour this fall, the troupe is taking their self-named show back to Edinburgh Fringe… and beyond it. With…
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Concussions Part 1 – Let’s Talk About Concussions
…to be specifically hit in the head to suffer a concussion. Getting hit or falling on another part of the body that then translates the force up to the head,…
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Launch of New European Degree in Youth and Social Circus Pedagogy
…a sustained dedication to failure. In order to learn how to balance on a unicycle, walk on stilts or on a high wire, a young person must learn to fall…
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How One New England Circus Pulled Through the Pandemic
…Rochester Fringe Poster After a year of livestreaming, the world started to open up again and we sprung into action and booked what we called our “Fall Festival Tour,” with…
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Upcoming Festival Open Calls
…Spring. We highlight here a few summer and fall festivals that are still calling for applications! Don’t miss your chance. These deadlines are approaching fast— the latest is April 15—…
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Celebrating Women in Circus: Ekpoawan Edem and Elena Suárez Pariente
…if they fall. On two different continents, Ekpoawan Edem and Elena Sudrez Pariente have both found their way across that highwire and helped others do it, too. Now they’re reflecting…
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“Last Impacts”: After Cirque de Demain Festival’s Cancellation, 3 Artists Move On
…Funnily enough, before the piece was even ready, I started getting comments asking if it was about the myth of Narcissus. I’d say so… but that, instead of him falling…
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How to Clear the Obstacles to Success?
…a little different, a little more reserved. You cannot lean on success: sooner or later, you will fail and fall into depression. What actually can you lean on in this…
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LEME Recognized as Remarkable Arts Festival
…a base language, the festival’s events fall under 5 distinct domains that bring the arts into new contexts, such as public development, open debate, and support systems for contemporary circus….
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A Library System Adopts Circus Arts for Its Summer Arts Programming
…would you budget the project to maximize the quality of materials while keeping the costs accessible? These questions came up in the fall of 2020 when Mollie Standford, regional librarian…
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How to Make Your Circus Resume as Delicious as You Are!
…buffet of information that could fall into each of these categories, making it necessary to pick and choose what is relevant. Too much writing distracts the eye and important information…
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Congratulations to Mara Pavula, the New Head of Riga Circus
…the former leader of the Riga Circus and the new leader Mara Pavula in Fall 2021 at the press conference dedicated to the season opening. Photo: Kristine Madjare You…
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Portuguese Circus Festival LEME Returns to Ílhavo in December
…where we land from the fall? And we climbed. We return to the rope, the climb, the structure, the jump, the other.” The festival will be stretched into a 10-day…
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Caravan, Social Circus Network, Appoints New President, Taina Kopra
…during its fall meeting. Taina Kopra, founder and artistic director of Sorin Sirkus, was appointed as the next president of Caravan. Congratulations to Taina! Taina will take over in January…
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FIERI – Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Visit Malta Announce New Production Created Exclusively for Malta
…month full of uplifting shows inspired by the cultural roots of Malta is a stamp in quality for our country’s hospitality industry. Events of such calibre fall under our ultimate…
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Association of Performing Arts Professionals Receives Landmark Funding From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Reopening the Performing Arts Industry
…grants program will be announced in early October. Interested applicants will submit a short form in late fall 2021. Select applicants will then be invited to submit additional information by…
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World Acrobatics Society Inducts New Legends into Hall of Fame
…Don Dunfield Extreme Sports – Travis Pastrana Professional Acrobatics – Cristiani Family Trampoline/Tumbling – Karen Cockburn Charlie Pond Service Award – Nel Filliger Acrobatic Excellence Award – Blue Angels Golden…
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The École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
…as possible, several activities putting the talent of the next generation of contemporary dancers at the forefront will be presented to the general public, starting with, this fall: Les arbres…
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Circus Immersion – Lights on Those in Their Flyer’s Shadow–Pro Exclusive
…will do everything to prevent a fall or an injury. Porters either get their flyer back in their center or catch them. A quick look into the other’s eyes is…
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Is Big ‘Cirque du Soleil’ Style Circus an Economic Indicator of Recovery for the Performing Arts?
…2021, and UK-based Gandini Juggling has a full summer and fall touring their hit show Smashed around the UK and Europe even as they are developing new works. With signs…
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The Olympics & Circus–How They Overlap: Ongoing Coverage
…medals at four games. BMX Cycling In somber news, defending Olympic gold medalist Connor Fields took a pretty hard fall during the semi-final in the men’s BMX race on Friday….
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Teatro Zinzanni Relaunches the Chicago Theatre District
…be gasp-inducing, but in such an intimate space, the physicality of their romantic trapeze act (handyman and maid fall for each other) becomes a culmination of sorts–of all of the…
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Circus Immersion–Keeping the Movement Going in the Art of Being Upside Down
…that no fall would disturb her creativity in her research and exploration phases. “It took about a year to become comfortable on my canes, in spite of my extensive acrobatic…
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Circus Bodies: Circus Bodies with Disabilities
…the Canada Council, the British Council Canada, MXBritish, Cultural Jalisco, Cultura Zapopan. Photo credit: Agencia Fotográfica. Last fall I spoke with Bojana Coklyat, an Arts Access Consultant, about how to…
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Pathways to Circus Legitimacy: The Library
…library stocked with resources that are integrated into the school’s curriculum.) Although many circus schools in the US have a bookshelf or two, these collections fall far short of what’s…
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The Circus Arts – Engine Of A Fresh, New Beginning
…– and since we are human beings, we are fallible. Someone who flies or swings, falls. Someone who catches a partner flying towards him, can miss the motion. The ring…
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JOB ALERT: Circus Job Opportunities Are Coming Back On- and Off-Stage!
…26th, 2021 throughout July 4th. They are also casting performers for a fall tour from September throughout October. Jodi Purdy Casting is looking for specialty performers for an original musical,…
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“Certification” Versus “Experience” for Acrobatic & Circus Riggers
…covers workplace health & safety, rigging installations and operation, working at height with fall protection equipment (not including rope access), sling use, chain motor use, and other various entertainment rigging…
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The Element of Language of French Contemporary Circus Artists
…find themes, such as that of risk (risk, balance, fall), that of softness (grouping together the categories of poetry, language, emotion, fragile, and intimate) and that of tradition (collective, circle…
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Let’s Talk About Concussions
…one does not need to be specifically hit in the head to suffer a concussion. Getting hit or falling on another part of the body that then translates the force…
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Raphaëlle Boitel Describes Fierce 5: It Wakes Up Something
…In life you are a bit on the wire, you walk, and you fall and fall again. How do you learn to stand, just your foot on the wire? It’s…
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MLA As a Resource for Circus Research
…doesn’t fall readily into a single classification in the Bibliography. Scholarly discussions of circus performances are included as part of the Bibliography’s national literature coverage. National literatures are determined according…
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Detachable Passion – An Open Letter to Performing Artists Everywhere
…money for those involved. When we advocate the economic importance of our industry we also fall into this reductive way of thinking. This is a commercial approach to making performance…
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Un-Conference – An Innovative Way to Engage with Your Circus Community During Lockdown
…you planning to extend it/repeat it in the fall? Hopefully everyone will be back in class and off their computers by September! It has been really popular though, so we…
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19th Edition of the CINARS Biennale Is Postponed to May 2021
…the same time. Registration for the CINARS Biennale will open in the fall. CINARS establishes ongoing links with performing arts professionals internationally. In order to maintain these essential relationships with…
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“Being With” — How to Enhance Relationships with Your Circus Students
…line from one area to another, and a 6-year-old student trips and falls down. The student was frightened by the fall and the impact hurt, but they were not injured….
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Contemporary Circus Programming at Montclair State Aims to Defy Expectations of Virtuosity
…in what you said about contemporary circus not being an escape for the audience. How have audiences responded to Peak Performance programming? When Angels Fall by Raphaëlle Boitel. Photo by…
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Make the Transition from Circus Artist to Circus Director, Tips from Joel Baker
…was on tour with Cirque Bouffon in Germany. It wasn’t until fall that I was back home to focus on the project and had plans to fly out to Vermont…
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Hanging by a Thread–Calculated Risks in Circus
Recently, an acrobat fell 25ft to the floor at the 2nd International Air Athletics Championship in Riga, Latvia[1]. In 2018, a Cirque du Soleil acrobat died after a fall during…
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