Marking its 5th year on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Underbelly’s Circus Hub 2019 programme announced today offers audiences of all…
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The UK’s only international physical theatre festival returns to Liverpool this June for a 6-day extravaganza of performance, workshops and…
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Pearls of Juggling is a labor of love kind of book (and blog) written by Anthony Trahair. The book was…
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Can a horse and a lion fall in love? This is the “cheeky” through-line of Circus Krone’s newest show Mandana….
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To bring the musical Paramour together with Cirque du Soleil on stage is currently one of the most fascinating and…
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Halfway between the Oscars and the Olympics, the world’s greatest circus festival is also perhaps the largest existing one-ring circus…
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As a circus artist, how do you sign up with an agency? Which agency would get you the types of…
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Dumbo is an elephant we can’t forget. More than 70 years since Disney’s 1941 film, the big-eared baby is still…
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In Your Space Circus (IYSC) is delighted to be launching a brand new cross-community Street Arts project for the young…
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Dear Subcase, ‘A showcase of Nordic contemporary circus…Subcase is co-curated by a group of Nordic-Baltic performing arts professionals. All performances…
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In our continuing series called Meet the Presenter-Tag, we will explore the world of circus arts programming with different presenters…
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Dr. Franziska Trapp is a researcher at the University of Münster who founded the Zirkus|Wissenschaft research project, a project which…
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Circus Knie, which started 100 years ago as Switzerland’s National Circus, has found a rather unique way to celebrate their…
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After creating a show, rehearsing, staging and then touring it, what happens next? Most of the time the creative team…
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In a country where names like Rossini and Verdi are just a few eponyms of an even greater tradition, the…
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Etha Struick is a Dutch circus artist, a coach, a prize winning circus choreographer and the founder of Nieuw Circus….
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Circus was created to fill a gap left by ‘serious’ theatre. Now a new generation of performers is rejecting bureaucratisation…
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The Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque (BIAC) organised by Archaos, Pôle National Cirque in Marseille takes place every two…
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I first learned of the Konyot family through professor Ron Beadle, a renowned British circademic and a descendant of the Konyot…
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The quiet pulse of house music rises slowly as the audience settles in. In the center of the circus ring…
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A circus act, which saw three motorcyclists enter the ‘cage of death’ went horribly wrong, leaving one injured and shocked…
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Between February 14th and 19th, around 80 artists participated at the 8th edition of the Golden Elephant Circus Festival in…
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The Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque (BIAC)is a month-long celebration of circus that takes place in Marseille and the Provence…
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The circus women of Spain have met again for the second time, from the 10th to the 13th of December…
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You are about to enter a members-only zone.To share this article on your CircusTalk member page and connect with circus…
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A domain name is an address which directs you to a specific location on the internet. It can be a…
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Audiences at Soho Theatre are being given a chance to enter the hidden world of circus, as the award winning…
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Verena Cornwall is overseeing a study for the circus industry in the EU, the result of which will affect the…
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In our new series titled Meet the Circus School, we will explore some of the many circus schools around the…
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The winners of the Gold Clown at the 42nd International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo have been announced on Sunday…
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So, here we are in 2019 and the circus celebrations of last year are behind us – or are they?…
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A man limps awkwardly on to the stage, mimicking a mouth twisted to one side, head bent towards his feet….
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The main circus hall of Arc En Cirque resembles the hull of a boat turned upside down – it’s ceiling…
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In this series called “Meet a Circus Grad” we give a voice to recently graduated or graduating circus artists, to…
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The CIRCa festival is the mecca of contemporary circus. As it’s director, Marc Fouilland likes to call it “le rendez-vous…
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David Konyot, renowned circus clown, explains how the misuse of the terms clown and circus to make negative connotations about…
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In an interview with the Le Figaro , Princess Stéphanie of Monaco has again stood up for the traditional circus. …
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Circus festivals epitomise the evolution of circus, however, during one of the festivals I worked at this season I had…
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Everyone has their own favorite reasons for going to Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. For some it’s the iconic…
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Ulaş and Melike Cankurt have raised their children in a caravan. They travel all across Turkey to perform shows in…
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In this second part of and article by Pete Turner (aka Peanut the Clown), Turner asks himself some essential questions, exploring the…
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The city of Ontinyent presents the 7th edition of its Festival of Circus and Theater. The festival started as an…
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For most of us, four decades of existence can result in crow’s feet and beer bellies. For Cirque de Demain,…
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Big news from the Federation Mondial du Cirque about a rating system they have developed for circus. “This is the Michelin-star…
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In a British circus, you will no longer find big cats, dancing bears or sea lions balancing on balls. Anne,…
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In this interview with Tilde Bjorfors of Circus Cirkor, we learn about the origins and mission of this socially progressive…
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CIRCa, a place of diffusion for circus and performing arts, and FEDEC, the European Federation of Professional Circus Schools which…
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If you come to Italy and mention the word circus, many people would still go for “Oh! Lions, ringmaster, elephants!…
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To read this article in English, click here. Del 19 al 21 de octubre el Teatro Circo Price de Madrid…
Read more >Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí. From 19th to 21st of October 2018, Teatro Circo Price in…
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Here is a message from the organizers of Young Stage, reminding circus artists that it is time to apply for…
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COME ONE, come all, the Palais is set to re-open in a spectacular fashion this November. When news of the…
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Many circus books tell us why their authors have run away to the circus; few address whether they should have….
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First time at the FRINGE! It had been a long-standing desire of mine to attend the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, either…
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Wire walker Andrea Loreni has been a subject on CircusTalk before when Giulia Schiavone wrote an article sharing her synopsis of…
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Czech contemporary circus is in many ways a unique phenomenon. Having been born of the will of theatre actors and…
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Summer is approaching and with it high season for the circus festivals. Circus programmers spend the entire year putting together…
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Iosif Totoi, 21– passed away at Russells International Circus– named on Wednesday and his family are raising funds to bring…
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Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí. Last June, the first Women in Circus State Meeting was held…
Read more >To read this article in English, click here. El pasado mes de junio se celebró en Sevilla (España) el I…
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This autumn Jacksons Lane puts female artists at the forefront. In an industry still fraught with gender imbalance, this season…
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Rigas Cirks visited CPH Stage: Q&A with Māra Pāvula At this year’s CPH Stage, DCI in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania…
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Workers at a popular circus have been left devastated after finding the body of their colleague as they arrived to…
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A festival, a hangout, a space created for the whole spectrum of what circus is and might be. Musing on…
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It would be impossible to ignore the setting of the Letní Letná festival and how it contributes to its charm….
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The first ‘Encounters with Circus and Its Others’ (CAIO) conference took place in Montreal in 2016 alongside the Montréal Complètement…
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In this two part article by Pete Turner (aka Peanut the Clown), Turner asks himself some essential questions, exploring the connections he…
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A new MA in dance and contemporary circus has been launched, billed as the first course of its kind in…
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Great Yarmouth’s annual international feast of all things circus and street arts is integrated into the Circus250 event series this…
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PRAGUE – This city has a well-documented taste for the surreal. It is, after all, the home of Franz Kafka…
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Wales-based NoFit State Circus is setting up a professional development programme to support the nation’s circus practitioners. The contemporary circus…
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New festival dedicated to contemporary circus in Scotland flies into Glasgow Braw Circus Festival, a festival dedicated to contemporary circus…
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When Rosa Bouglione was married inside a lion’s cage, the pastor, despite his best efforts, was made to stay outside….
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Hello, Olá, Hola and welcome to the first year of the hopefully annual Festival Iberoamericano de Circo (FIRCO), an adjudicated showcase of…
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As the audience files into the Mainhall at Summerhall (venue #26 of the Edinburgh Fringe), we are greeted with a…
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From September 6th until the 9th in 2018, the streets of Tàrrega in Spain will be taken over by street art…
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There is now a tool for circus researchers. It’s a place for them to communicate, exchange research studies and resources…
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Her destiny was linked for nearly 80 years to that of Cirque d’Hiver, which she bought in 1934 with her…
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Following Circus Royal’s bankruptcy this past July 2018, Peter Gasser, beloved member of the Gasser Swiss circus dynasty, died unexpectedly…
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The Letní Letná International Festival of Contemporary Circus and Theatre began Aug. 15 and runs until Sept. 2 at a…
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So. You’re trudging down the Royal Mile taking it all in. The World’s largest festival of the performing arts, and…
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In case you missed it, 2018 is being celebrated all over the world as the 250th birthday of circus. But…
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I was almost thirty years old when I joined the circus school in my new city, Ghent, around the turn…
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To present one or several new productions each year, to be considered an institution in the circus landscape, to enjoy…
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In this series, CircusTalk will attempt to explore different aspects of the social circus world. In this article, the author…
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In Paris this past January, at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, a giant robot took center stage and…
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Dear circus artists, We need to talk. Not about your circus practice, though – not here, not this way. It’s…
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In Alby, the southern suburbs of Stockholm, in a repurposed warehouse, there´s an annual meeting point for anyone with an…
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The circus arts have a chequered history when it comes to disability. However, the world has come a long way…
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Circus Talk recently sent Lea Toran Jenner to Young Stage in Basel, Switzerland where she got to see the competition,…
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From June 8-10, 2018, international contemporary circus will find its newest frontier in the historic Estonian resort town of Haapsalu….
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FEATURING a breath-taking mix of acrobatics, surprising aerial feats and masterful juggling, The Exploded Circus is coming to Leicester. It…
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We are starting a new series called “Meet a Circus Grad” to give a voice to recently graduated or graduating…
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Miss La La was the star of the show when Edgar Degas painted her in 1879 hanging by her teeth…
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We are watching the world around us change as technology becomes more integrated into our lives. Why leave circus behind?…
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Bright and early on Wednesday morning, April 18th, I made my way from London to Newcastle-Under-Lyme, a small town in…
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This past Sunday, Apr. 15, the Barefoot Monkeys’ Spring Show performance dazzled with fire, props (the professional term is toys),…
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Solène Albores and Rodrigo Hernández perform as Dúo Cardio. Solène comes from just outside Paris, grew up in Mexico City…
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In April 2018, the European Federation of Professional Circus Schools (FEDEC), headquartered in Brussels, is celebrating 20 years of connecting…
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