Show Spotlight: A.Lone Brings Laughter to COVID-Weary Audiences Through Digital Circus Performance
CircusTalk would like to share with you a unique upcoming production: A.Lone. A.Lone was developed and rehearsed remotely, giving the…
Read moreCircusTalk would like to share with you a unique upcoming production: A.Lone. A.Lone was developed and rehearsed remotely, giving the…
Read moreEn Piste, the National Circus Alliance of Canada, released the results of their survey on the the impacts of COVID-19. …
Read moreIn this new article series, CASTING ALERT, we will bring you a closer look into upcoming casting and job opportunities…
Read moreOn Thursday, December 10th, the online premiere of the documentary “El Vuelo Circular” (The Circular Flight) will take place. It…
Read moreSo much can happen in a moment, and so much can be conveyed, but with circus, the art is usually…
Read moreLooking back on circus in 2020 might be a bit scary. We have been through so much since nearly all…
Read morePanni Speirs is a contortion master coach, jazz musician, and motivational speaker who also holds the Guinness World Book of…
Read more“A transport-related accident may have caused the death of Hungarian circus elephants,” was a recent statement published by the Hungarian…
Read moreVeronica Blair of the Uncle Junior Project recently partnered with Felicity Hesed, San Francisco based clown and storyteller, to create this…
Read moreWhile theaters and circuses are still mostly shuttered and the performing arts is still on hold, it is our mission…
Read moreArtcena, the French National Centre for the Circus & Street Arts has released a new guide for download to help…
Read moreAntonella Casella, an Australian circus advocate, producer, director, dramaturg and performer, has recently announced that she is stepping down from her…
Read moreIn Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, plans to develop a new circus center are underway and the organizers are reaching out…
Read moreStaffordshire’s New Vic Theatre has appointed Vicki Amedume, Artistic Director of Upswing, as Associate Director to join the theatre-in-the-round’s team….
Read moreYou can be good at jumping from high altitudes but terrified to say “I love you.” What would the world…
Read moreOur co-founder, Andrea Honis, has been recently interviewed by Mediaspace.Global, the UK-based, independent professional network for media, marketing, tech, law…
Read moreThe Third Annual St. John’s International CircusFest takes place September 25-27, 2020. Traditionally, the Festival occurs in coastal St John’s,…
Read moreExtraordinary Bodies, a partnership between leading circus production company Cirque Bijou and award-winning arts and diversity practitioners Diverse City, champions…
Read moreThe contemporary circus company Mimbre took their work to the couch with this fascinating collage piece titled The Sofa Dance….
Read moreSo much can happen in a moment, and so much can be conveyed, but with circus, the art is usually…
Read moreGreenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDIF) and Spoffin in association with OutdoorArts UK join forces to present an online pitching…
Read moreSarasota, Florida- August 17, 2020. The Circus Ring of Fame Foundation has announced the nominees for the Class of 2021. The…
Read moreThe staff and board of directors of the John and Mable Ringling Museum were deeply saddened to learn of the…
Read moreAs the International Market of Contemporary Circus (MICC) adapts itself to be an online event this year (in response to…
Read morePerformers delivered letter from all the UK’s top circuses Letter warns that industry faces collapse in as little as 2…
Read moreThis list of information resources that we have compiled with the help of various resources, including On the Move, Circostrada…
Read moreOn July 8th, 3:30 pm EST, a team from Concordia, spearheaded by Dr. Louis Patrick Leroux (of the Montreal Working…
Read moreWe want you to get paid for your work NOW! CircusTalk members now can share online livestream and on-demand shows…
Read moreCINARS, which has been organizing one of the most important international showcases for the performing arts since 1984, has decided…
Read moreThe international contemporary circus festival Cirkuliacija is returning to Kaunas, Lithuania this June of 2020 in a new format due…
Read more“Creating an Acrobatic Design” is a panel discussion series by four students from the University of North Carolina School of…
Read moreIn an update to their previous survey (published here originally on April 15th), Shugoll research suggests that many theatergoers nationally…
Read moreIn 2021, Circus Days and Nights will have its world premiere. A new opera by Philip Glass with libretto by…
Read moreOne positive thing that the coronavirus pandemic isolation has given performers is the gift of time to focus on special…
Read moreOn Saturday, April 18th, CircusTalk celebrated the annual circus holiday known as World Circus Day with CircusTalk Online with a…
Read moreMoira Orfei Circus is releasing the documentary The World of Moira for free, live-streaming via Facebook on April 17th, 2020…
Read moreArtistic director of Parallel Exit and circus artist Mark Lonergan is making good use of his quarantine time by giving…
Read moreYou are invited to celebrate World Circus Day with CircusTalk online. Sadly, due to coronavirus travel restrictions around the world, the…
Read moreEcole de Cirque de Quebec’s annual graduate final exam Épreuve Synthèse took place this past March 2020 just before the…
Read moreThrough an initiative called New Victory Arts Break, New Victory Theater is inspiring families to learn performing arts skills from…
Read moreMany people have quickly become unemployed by the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the world, and most, if not all of…
Read moreCirque du Soleil is already reinventing itself. The entertainment group has launched a digital content hub called CirqueConnect, available at cirquedusoleil.com/cirqueconnect….
Read moreIn a letter from the FĂ©dĂ©ration Mondiale du Cirque, many learned on March 25th of the cancellation of the beloved…
Read moreIn October of 2019, CircusTalk went to Spain to participate in FIRCO and we made it a point to visit…
Read moreFaced with the unprecedented crisis caused by COVID-19, Cirque du Soleil temporarily laid off 95% of its staff, or 4,679…
Read moreThe circus community is in a state of turmoil due to repercussions from the COVID-19 virus. There are layoffs, circus…
Read moreThis is an ongoing list of cancellations due to the COVID-19 virus that we are collecting from around the circus…
Read moreFrom its explosive and bold beginnings in Cardiff, 1986, NoFit State is now the UK’s leading large-scale contemporary circus company,…
Read moreThe third iteration of the Circus Festival of Abidjan is taking place March 2nd to the 8th 2020 in the…
Read moreTaipei was to host two major performing arts conferences in the summer: the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres…
Read moreCirca, Australia’s contemporary circus company, keeps staying in the forefront on pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving…
Read moreJust over three years ago, Erwan Tarlet left his work to embark on an artistic career. He is 26 years…
Read moreCircusTalk is excited to announce that we will shortly be offering PRO membership – a new phase of our company…
Read moreShana Kennedy, co-founder of Philadelphia School of Circus Arts and Circadium takes on a big topic in her recent Ted…
Read moreIt’s finally here, the after-movie of FRESH CIRCUS # 5, the international seminar that was held in Auch, France this…
Read moreAt the 41st edition of Cirque de Demain on Thursday night in Paris, France our sources confirmed an accident in…
Read moreThe Ted X Youtube page says of Thom Wall that he is, “known for his avant-garde performance style and is…
Read moreSo much can happen in a moment, and so much can be conveyed, but with circus, the art is usually…
Read moreIt’s official–the 2020 awards have been awarded by the jury at the Festival International du Cirque de Monte Carlo headed…
Read moreIn 2019, it was our long-time contributor Alisan Funk who curated the series Adventures in Circus Research for CircusTalk, bringing…
Read moreThe Actors Gymnasium is expanding its nine-month Professional Circus Training Program to include a new concentration in clown, giving actors…
Read moreAttending CIRCa and Fresh Circus #5 this year was both exciting and fortuitous for us. In 2018, editor Kim Campbell…
Read moreBetween-Two- Biennales kicks off on January 16th and provides a month of excitement all around circus in the Marseille Provence…
Read moreThis January 12th in Sarasota Florida The Circus Ring of Fame Foundation(an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) will officially induct the…
Read more“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”–Andy Warhol Hey! We have a new…
Read moreBravo, LEME! It was our pleasure to collaborate and support LEME, The Festival of Contemporary Circus and Artistic Creation in…
Read moreAustralia’s national circus company, Circus Oz has announced exciting new artistic plans that will reposition the company within the new…
Read moreThe closing ceremony for the 6th China International Circus Festival was held at Zhuhai Chimelong Hengqin International Circus City in…
Read moreThe circusnext European pre-selection has announced the projects that they selected on November 14 and 15th which they will support…
Read moreCarlos Raluy (Sant AdriĂ del Besòs, 1944), creator and co-founder of Circus Raluy has died in Barcelona yesterday, his family…
Read moreCirque du Soleil announced its 52nd original production, Cirque du Soleil NYSA, that is also the company’s first permanent show…
Read morePop House Productions and the Astrid Lindgren Company are celebrating Pippi Longstocking’s 75th anniversary in the summer of 2020 with…
Read moreJuggling features heavily in Phelim McDermott’s US premier of the production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, now playing at the New York Metropolitan…
Read moreOur correspondent Madeline Hoak went to the annual Circus Fans of America convention this year and reported back on the…
Read moreThe second Big Top Label ceremony was held in early October at the European Parliament in Brussels, supported by the…
Read moreCircus City – the UK’s biggest festival of contemporary circus – returns to Bristol from October 17 to November 2…
Read moreHildegard Muntwyler, founder of Circus Monti, died on September 19, 2019, at the age of 83, after a long illness….
Read moreIn Part 1 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
Read moreOur editor Kim Campbell went to the UK this summer on a triple mission: 1. To have a vacation in…
Read moreCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products have announced tickets are on sale for the highly…
Read moreHave you ever been to the European Juggling Convention (EJC)? This year (Aug 3-11, 2019) it was held in the…
Read moreCircus Oz announces that Penny Miles is appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director. Circus Oz Chair, Nick Yates, explained that…
Read more“Politicians wish to be a real Circus, where empathy, teamwork is practiced, the impossible is achieved and we take care…
Read moreEdinburgh Fringe’s biggest circus venue, Underbelly, offers 13 circus shows this August and features five premieres. Such a huge draw…
Read moreCircusTalk would like to announce the release of an updated new feature, the EDUCATION Page. The new feature was launched…
Read moreThis just in– good news from the MontrĂ©al circus venue TOHU announcing that the Deputy Director of Programming position has…
Read moreHULL’s international Freedom Festival, on the east coast of England, returns for its 12th year in 2019 with extended programming…
Read moreThe time has come for CircusTalk to blog! This year has been a year of big growth for CircusTalk–we’ve gained…
Read moreIn a recent press release,NoFit State made a big announcement about an initiative they have created to support up-and-coming circus…
Read moreCircus Oz announces that Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave the company on Friday, 28 June 2019 as…
Read moreIn their recent newsletter, The Caravan International Youth and Social Circus Network reported that a new publication about social circus…
Read moreCircusWorks, the umbrella organization for UK youth circuses, recently conducted a survey and interviewed 45 youth circus organizations to learn…
Read moreOn May 27th, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du QuĂ©bec will induct 17 new cultural ambassadors from Quebec…
Read moreWith the popularity of inter-disciplinary shows on the rise, it is common for circus shows to incorporate more dance  and…
Read moreBetween February 14th and 19th, around 80 artists participated at the 8th edition of the Golden Elephant Circus Festival in…
Read moreVerena Cornwall is overseeing a study for the circus industry in the EU, the result of which will affect the…
Read moreThe winners of the Gold Clown at the 42nd International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo have been announced on Sunday…
Read moreDavid Konyot, renowned circus clown, explains how the misuse of the terms clown and circus to make negative connotations about…
Read moreIn an interview with the Le Figaro , Princess StĂ©phanie of Monaco has again stood up for the traditional circus. …
Read moreWe often hear stories of circus people coming forward to save the day–and New Victory Theater has as a good…
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