Keeping Tradition of Circus Music Alive Is Focus of Retirees’ Windjammers Group
More than a hundred, mostly retired, part-time musicians from around the country gathered last week in Sarasota to revive what…
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Cirque du Soleil Cancels All Performances in Chinese City Over Coronavirus
MONTREAL — The Cirque du Soleil is canceling all performances in Hangzhou, China to ward off the potential spreading of…
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Circus Zambia | Close Up
Gift Chansa had an idea. ”If we put circus in Chibolya, they will see that we’re not criminals,” he told…
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Sex Positivity with Your Aerial Spins? The WonderWombs Wields a Fearless Mix of Circus, Women’s Issues, and Laughter
One of the most risk-taking shows in town right now is a circus—and we’re not necessarily talking about the Dust Palace’s gravity-defying aerial…
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Chimelong Debuts as Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival’s Strategic Partner In Monaco
ZHUHAI, China, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In the evening of January 22, 2020, local time in Monaco, the 44thMonte-Carlo…
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Life-The Show (Strut & Fret Production House, Sydney Festival)
LIFE – The Show is brought to us by Strut & Fret’s Creative Director Scott Maidment who returns with a…
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New Inductees Step into Circus Ring of Fame
What do circus performers from Canada, New York, Madrid and Colombia have in common? On Sunday, they joined more than 140…
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The 2020 Dance and Circus Calendar
Physical feats and disciplined artistry unite the worlds of dance and circus, despite the many differences between the artforms. In…
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Art, Empathy and Crossing Borders: a Provocation by Yaron Lifschitz
The following speech is an edited version of a provocation delivered by Yaron Lifschitz at the 2020 ISPA Congress in…
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New Publication Online: Discover the Overview of Korean Circus And Street Arts
Discover the publication An immersion into Korean circus and street arts! In October 2018, Circostrada embarked a dozen of its…
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Females Join Ring at New Zoppe Circus Show
For families like the Zoppes, the circus isn’t just a way to make a living. It is part of their…
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Due to Strikes, the Bouglione Circus Lost “900,000 Euros During the Holidays”
According to the French newspaper Le Parisien, Cirque d’Hiver took a large financial hit over the holidays due to strikes….
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Acrobats are Athletes
With the beauty of gymnastics in full display during the recently concluded 30th Southeast Asian Games, our attention is captured by…
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Circus Training for Foster Kids Seen as Boost to Youths’ Self-Esteem
Whether working with at-risk children in South Africa, or youths in London through Ronald McDonald House and London Down Syndrome…
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Flying High! Woman, 22, Who Started Circus School at 14 Now Makes a Living Performing Acrobatic Stunts on AIRPLANE Wings
A self-confessed ‘adrenaline junkie’ has revealed she loves ‘being in the spotlight’ after securing a career performing aerobatic movements on the wings…
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Circus Aerialist Discusses the Art of Circus Performance
While circus arts are generally on the descent — the company that owns the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey…
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Swing Act Performer Falls During Cirque du Soleil Show at Bellagio
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A swing act performer fell during a Cirque du Soleil show Sunday at the Bellagio on…
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Circus Stays Open Despite Families Being Evacuated from New South Wales Coastal Towns as Out-of-Control Bushfires Rage On
A travelling circus has remained open using a generator in a coastal town which has been ravaged by bushfires. Residents…
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Circus Aerial Team Falls 10 Meters During Amsterdam Show
Update, 22:41, 3 January 2020: The show’s producer said the performers were conscious, and had feeling in their arms and…
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Stressful, Humiliating and Exhilarating – What It’s Like to Be a Circus Performer
Tensions are running high in the venue as the circus theatre students prepare for their upcoming show. Circomedia, based in…
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A ‘Very Fast, Very Scary’ Aerialist Accident Reported During the Revivalists Concert on New Year’s Eve
Two people were injured early Wednesday morning when an acrobat performing above the crowd at the Revivalists show at the…
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Top 50 shows of 2019: Circus
From the best musicals and plays to spectacular productions from the worlds of circus, immersive theatre, opera and dance, The…
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Luke Burrage’s Top 40 Jugglers of 2019 Released!
It’s official, juggler Luke Burrage has released the Top 40 Jugglers of 2019 list. Each year, Burrage curates the voting…
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Circus Acrobat, 30, Fights for Life After Horrific Fall in Front of Children
A young acrobat is fighting for her life after falling from a height in front of horrified children and parents…
Read moreCirque du Soleil Job Cuts
A recent video from Montreal City News discusses a minor downsizing move on Cirque du Soleil‘s part, siting reorganization and…
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How Circus Arts Helped Me Deal with Body Shame
After reaching my late-40s, becoming more visibly trans, having a child, and losing most of my employment prospects, I finally…
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The First Traveling Water Circus in The Middle East Just Launched in Lebanon
The first traveling water show in the Middle East “Fontana” was launched by Cirque Du Liban in Beirut a few…
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How the Big Apple Circus Clawed Its Way Back From Bankruptcy
As the lights flashed and the music pulsated, I took a swig of Irish whiskey from my plastic balloon-animal dog…
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‘It Was Like a Stampede’: Terrified Families Flee from Circus at Manchester’s Winter Funland
Terrified families ran from a circus at Manchester’s Winter Funland as seating collapsed ‘like dominoes’ and left three people injured….
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Sick, NICA (VIC)
Sick presented by NICA’s Bachelor of Circus Arts third-year students is a slick, sophisticated and utterly human contemporary circus work set…
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44th International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo – From the 16th to the 26th January 2020
In just over two months, the Principality will once again become the circus capital of the world with twin attractions…
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TI Owner Phil Ruffin Talks More Circus Circus Plans
Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin on Wednesday told the state Gaming Control Board that “The Illusionists,” which he says is…
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NoFit State Circus Brings Acclaimed Show Lexicon to The Roundhouse
The seeds of NoFit State Circus were sown in the politically charged atmosphere of the 1980s. They were five friends,…
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Décennie 2010: La Reconnaissance du Cirque (Decade 2020: The Recognition of Circus)
Taking a broad view of the circus institutions’ and offerings in Quebec, reporter Jean Siag of La Press discusses the…
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Nell Gifford, Owner of Giffords Circus, Dies of Breast Cancer
Despite illness, co-founder appeared in shows over the summer before her death at 46 Nell Gifford, the owner and co-founder…
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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…
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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…
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Watch: 41-year-old Mother Becomes First Saudi Circus Performer
The Jeddah-based aerialist is the first and only Saudi to ever perform publicly in a circus in Saudi Arabia. “It…
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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…
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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…
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Why a Longsight Circus School is Prescribing Juggling and Trapeze to Cope with Anxiety
The thought of balancing on a trapeze for the very first time might fill most of us with dread, but…
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Cirque du Soleil Announces New Attraction in Mexico
Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Grupo Vidanta recently announced the launch of an exciting new show that will include…
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Circus Museum in Baraboo Plans New Rotating Exhibit, Western Theme for 2020
It wouldn’t be the first time people attempted to distract themselves from the news of the world with circus, and…
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Circus Horror As Female Acrobat Crashes to the Floor
Families watched in horror as an acrobat plunged 12ft to the floor ‘after slipping from her harness’ at Winter Wonderland….
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Cirque Du Soleil Includes Four Alums of Local Youth Circus Organization
St. Louis’ Circus Harmony, a social circus group that trains kids and teens in tumbling, acrobatics, juggling and the rest…
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Circus Tent Gutted
A circus tent in Howrah’s Domjur was gutted early on Monday, hours before it was to open for the season’s…
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Galway Community Circus Statement Regarding Insurance Crisis–Wires Crossed Program in Jeopardy
For two years the Galway Community Circus has been planning a really big event–the kind that can transform lives and…
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A Performer on the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Reveals How She Got the Gig, and What Working at Sea is Really Like
Ariana Mazzagatti, who goes by the nickname Mazz, is an entertainer aboard the world’s largest cruise ship, the Symphony of…
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Cirque du Soleil Co-Founder Guy Laliberté’s Immersive, Multi-Media Art Pyramid Will Not Come to Miami
PY1’s laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip “through space and time” but was a box office…
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Sports Handstand Man Lands in Port Moody
Sascha Bachmann calls himself a failed gymnast, and he wears it like a badge of honour. Last Saturday, the 26-year-old…
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French Government Blasts Violence in Paris suburbs
Three French cabinet ministers visited a cultural centre in the Paris suburb of Chanteloup-les-Vignes on Tuesday, which was burned at…
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My Circus ‘Gives Me a Reason to Live’
Nell Gifford founded one of the UK’s best-known traditional circuses 20 years ago. Now she is living with advanced cancer,…
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Certain Blacks Circus Circus Circus Festival: Diverse Circus Comes to Town
CERTAIN BLACKS is an arts development organisation formed in 2015 to support the work of diverse artists. Circus Circus Circus…
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FIRCO and The First CircusTalk Critic’s Choice Award
CircusTalk was excited to participate on a deeper level in the second edition of FIRCO, (El Festival Iberoamericano de Circo)…
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Orpheus & Eurydice: Opera Queensland And Circa Combine Two Art Forms
Opera Queensland and contemporary circus company Circa are joining forces to present Christoph Gluck’s much-loved opera ‘Orpheus & Eurydice’. In…
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The City’s First Festival of Contemporary Circus is Happening This November
This year’s festival is the exciting pilot of a new annual event, which aims to raise the profile of Liverpool…
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A Cirque du Soleil Stunt Motorcyclist Crashed. What That Means for the New ‘R.U.N’
A stunt motorcyclist in the new Cirque du Soleil show “R.U.N” has been injured in an accident during the first…
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California Bans Circuses from Using Tigers, Elephants, Monkeys and Other Wild Animals
Circuses performing in California will no longer be able to use elephants, lions, monkeys and other wild animals after Gov….
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Acrobatic Play Opens Arts Festival
The 21st China Shanghai International Arts Festival opened on Friday night with acrobatic play “Dawn in Shanghai” at Shanghai Grand…
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Les Femmes Sont-Elles des Clowns Comme les Autres ?
In her article titled Are Female Clowns Like the Others? circus artist, and author of the book The New Clowns: A…
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London International Mime Festival Announces 2020 Programme
The 2020 London International Mime Festival celebrates its 44th year as the capital’s annual festival of contemporary visual theatre. From…
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Preview: Circus City 2019
Circus City, the UK’s biggest festival of contemporary circus, returns to Bristol from October 17 to November 2 with an…
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Ethiopia’s Newest Export: Circus
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (CNN)Tucked behind a colorful tin roof dwelling in Addis Ababa, acrobats of all ages are spinning, contorting…
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Cirque du Soleil to Hit Chicago with Group’s First-Ever Holiday Spectacle
Cirque du Soleil, the famed Montreal-based live entertainment company, on Tuesday said it will return to Chicago for the second…
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The Sex Education Circus
Performer and educator Jess Herman has come up with a creative way of teaching teenagers about sex — she tours…
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Roadkill Performance Launching in Troy
The first production of the Contemporary Circus & Immersive Arts Center (CCIAC)is a good sign for the development of contemporary…
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Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 4 –’Sound’
In Part 4 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Making a Pitch: Why Circus Deserves to Be Recognised as an Art Form
Pitch’d Circus Arts Festival director Cormac Mohally of Lords of Strut tells Ellie O’Byrne why circus deserves to be recognised…
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Some Strings Attached: Meet the Women of Tangle, Fringe’s High-Flying All-Female Circus Troupe
If your impression of Cirque du Soleil is dorky, bizarre, spellbinding or thrilling, this local, smaller rendition aims to give…
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Award-Winning Performer is Set to Entertain at Cork Circus Festival
LIVELY performer Lucy Hopkins will bring her award-winning clown show, Le Foulard, to St Peter’s in Cork city on September…
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Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 3–‘Lights’
In Part 3 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Sexual Violence: Circus As a Tool For Reconstruction
The AFD (Agence Française de Développement) recently released a video about a new project they support called CAMELEON, where they…
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Anna Lumb In Hard to reach Places Comes to Melbourne Fringe
Internationally acclaimed, wildly theatrical and incendiary circus performer Anna Lumb is about to set Melbourne Fringe alight with her new…
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The Untold Story Of Europe’s First Black Female Circus Star
2018 MARKED the 250th anniversary of the circus. In celebration, an exhibition which highlights diversity and complexity within the circus…
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Acrobats, Gymnasts and Jugglers: Moscow to Host Circus Arts Festival
14 till 16 September, Moscow will host Circus Arts Festival timed to the anniversary of the date when all the…
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Why I’m Sick of Politics Being Described as a Circus
Jon Sopel has a new book out this month – A Year at the Circus. But the BBC’s North America…
Read moreGravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 2 – Process
In Part 2 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Circus Reinvented in Montreal, This Time with High-tech Vibe
Montreal—the Canadian city that spawned the global juggernaut Cirque du Soleil—has once again reimagined the circus, this time tapping into…
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Introducing Modern Vaudeville Press
The juggling community as a whole knows Thom Wall as “the Vaudeville Sensation.” But more and more people are discovering…
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The Hartford Courant Let Survivors of a Tragic 75-Year-Old Circus Fire Tell Their Own Stories
Seventy-five years ago, a fire broke out in Hartford, Connecticut. On July 6, 1944, fire erupted inside the big top…
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Questions Remain About the Future of the Big Apple Circus
At this point in the developing saga that is the Big Apple Circus, we know more about who and what…
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Arts Council England to Set Up Theatre Showcase at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Arts Council England is to fund a new performing arts showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With a focus on…
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The Founder of the Quebec Circus School Loses His Life in a Sailing Accident
CircusTalk is sad to deliver the news of the loss of life of the influential circus school founder, Michel Rousseau….
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Sarasota High and Circus Arts Conservatory Partner for Magnet Program
Sarasota’s long-running history with circus arts will soon expand into the classrooms of Sarasota High School. In partnership with Circus…
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Circa’s New Paths to Success
Of course I had heard the stories about Circa. Consistently in festival delivery mode. Hundreds of performances a year around…
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Total Theatre Awards Announces 2019 Shortlist
Total Theatre Awards today announced the 2019 shortlist. From the list announced today, a total of seven awards will be…
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The Show Must Go On! Inside Cirque Du Soleil Founder Guy Laliberté’s Plan To Create Another Entertainment Phenomenon
Guy Laliberté stands on a dock at the old port of Montreal and surveys the skyline. This is the city of…
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Meet the All-Female Circus Troupe Flipping Gender Expectations
The circus might conjure up images of burly strong men, ringmasters in top hats and dainty acrobats in frilly outfits….
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Perfectionism in Contemporary Circus Arts
Similar to dancers and professional athletes (Hill, 2016), contemporary circus artists may score relatively high on the personality characteristic perfectionism. People…
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Big-Cat Trainer Criticises Bill Banning Wild Animals in Circuses
One of British circus’ last big-cat trainers has criticised the news he will no longer be able to feature wild…
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French Tightrope Walker to Open Prague’s Summer Circus Festival with a Daring Walk Above the Vltava
Prague’s annual festival of summer circus, Letní Letná, is one of the Czech capital’s most highly anticipated events. This year…
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Sziget Festival Kicks off Next Week With Concerts, a Circus, Environmental Speeches and More
Hungary’s most popular music event of the summer, Sziget Festival, kicks off next week in Budapest and tens of thousands of visitors…
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Edinburgh May Lose £20m US Circus Project Over Brexit Fears
Las Vegas variety producer considers relocating European base to Berlin or Paris. The Edinburgh festival fringe is facing the loss of a…
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Considering Circus – Photo Documentation of Montreal’s annual Circus Festival
In the staunchly conservative, predominantly catholic German village of my childhood, we children eagerly anticipated three occasions each year: Carnival…
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Alegria’s Opening Night in Gatineau Marred by Early Halt in Performance and Missing Finale
A shaky start and missing finale made for a worrying and ultimately disappointing premiere performance of Alegria on Thursday night….
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AGT Hoop Aerialist Matthew Richardson Makes Circus/Queer Film In Church
On Season 14 of America’s Got Talent, the judges are wowed by cyr wheel performer Matthew Richardson. The 33-year-old former…
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Performers to Showcase Taiwan Culture in St. Vincent and Grenadines
Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Taiwanese performing arts troupe Formosa Circus Art (FOCA) will visit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this…
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Swiss artist Daniele Finzi Pasca designs the 2019 Fête des Vignerons
Switzerland’s once-in-a-generation Fête des Vignerons opens on July 18 in the lakeside town of Vevey. Swiss director and choreographer Daniele…
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Circus Rio Shut Down After Two Performers Suffer Serious Injuries in Less Than a Week
A circus in Adelaide has been shut down after two performers were injured in separate incidents in less than a…
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