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Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin on Wednesday told the state Gaming Control Board that “The Illusionists,” which he says is…
Read moreTreasure Island owner Phil Ruffin on Wednesday told the state Gaming Control Board that “The Illusionists,” which he says is…
Read moreTaking a broad view of the circus institutions’ and offerings in Quebec, reporter Jean Siag of La Press discusses the…
Read moreIt was the day before the dress rehearsal of our show Limb(e)s in Montreal’s La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines venue. The…
Read more180 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from Washington, DC sat forward at the American Film Institute (AFI) Silver Theater in…
Read moreIt was the widespread use of trains that finally got the circus business on track. But wild success also brought…
Read moreWhen the curtain rose on Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” last month, Sean Gandini was sitting twenty feet above the Metropolitan…
Read moreCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Grupo Vidanta recently announced the launch of an exciting new show that will include…
Read moreIt wouldn’t be the first time people attempted to distract themselves from the news of the world with circus, and…
Read moreSt. Louis’ Circus Harmony, a social circus group that trains kids and teens in tumbling, acrobatics, juggling and the rest…
Read moreJosh Aviner and Lyndsay Magid Aviner’s partnership goes beyond the mighty bonds of husband and wife. They are a dynamic…
Read moreLes Foutoukours is a production company with a special mission to help the world understand clowning and physical theater. Since…
Read morePY1’s laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip “through space and time” but was a box office…
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 moreSascha Bachmann calls himself a failed gymnast, and he wears it like a badge of honour. Last Saturday, the 26-year-old…
Read more“This event is about the future.” This is how Frank Hentschker, Executive Director and Director of Programs at the Martin…
Read moreThis year’s festival is the exciting pilot of a new annual event, which aims to raise the profile of Liverpool…
Read moreA stunt motorcyclist in the new Cirque du Soleil show “R.U.N” has been injured in an accident during the first…
Read moreCircuses performing in California will no longer be able to use elephants, lions, monkeys and other wild animals after Gov….
Read moreA new research project has been published titled Self-Determination Through Circus Arts: Exploring Youth Development in a Novel Activity Context…
Read moreIf “Spread the magic!” was Anahareo Dölle’s motto for the first Saint John’s International Circus Fest in 2018, the event’s…
Read moreDr. Jen Crane has many credentials beyond her doctorate in physical therapy. Among other things, she is a board certified…
Read moreAs Circadium School of Contemporary Circus welcome its 3rd class of students in Philadelphia, it is a good time to…
Read moreAs a teenager, Tara Jacob first fell in love with the fun, creativity, and community when she discovered in the…
Read moreWith a show named Love, Chaos and Dinner, you’d think you’d know what you are about to get served. But…
Read moreIn a circular ballroom on the twelfth floor of Springfield’s La Quinta hotel with a stunning view of western Massachusetts,…
Read moreCirque du Soleil, the famed Montreal-based live entertainment company, on Tuesday said it will return to Chicago for the second…
Read moreThe first production of the Contemporary Circus & Immersive Arts Center (CCIAC)is a good sign for the development of contemporary…
Read moreIf your impression of Cirque du Soleil is dorky, bizarre, spellbinding or thrilling, this local, smaller rendition aims to give…
Read moreThe first annual San Diego Circus Festival, hosted by San Diego Circus Center and produced by Jean-Luc Martin, was a…
Read moreI arrived to the San Diego Circus Center hot, sweaty, and brimming with anticipation. A little boy in a red…
Read moreMontreal—the Canadian city that spawned the global juggernaut Cirque du Soleil—has once again reimagined the circus, this time tapping into…
Read moreLately, it seems like more and more circus artists are getting into making music. As a circus artist who makes…
Read moreIn the circus community, touring is commonly known as a very difficult thing to plan and then to execute. That’s…
Read moreThe juggling community as a whole knows Thom Wall as “the Vaudeville Sensation.” But more and more people are discovering…
Read moreSeventy-five years ago, a fire broke out in Hartford, Connecticut. On July 6, 1944, fire erupted inside the big top…
Read moreAt this point in the developing saga that is the Big Apple Circus, we know more about who and what…
Read moreCirque du Soleil Entertainment Group and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products have announced tickets are on sale for the highly…
Read moreCircusTalk is sad to deliver the news of the loss of life of the influential circus school founder, Michel Rousseau….
Read moreSarasota’s long-running history with circus arts will soon expand into the classrooms of Sarasota High School. In partnership with Circus…
Read moreGuy Laliberté stands on a dock at the old port of Montreal and surveys the skyline. This is the city of…
Read moreIn the staunchly conservative, predominantly catholic German village of my childhood, we children eagerly anticipated three occasions each year: Carnival…
Read moreA shaky start and missing finale made for a worrying and ultimately disappointing premiere performance of Alegria on Thursday night….
Read more“Politicians wish to be a real Circus, where empathy, teamwork is practiced, the impossible is achieved and we take care…
Read moreOn Season 14 of America’s Got Talent, the judges are wowed by cyr wheel performer Matthew Richardson. The 33-year-old former…
Read moreSpring by Gandini Juggling arrived in Montreal midsummer (July 3-8) to be part of the Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival, filling up the…
Read moreErin Ball is a circus artist and coach based in Kingston, Ontario, the owner of Kingston Circus Arts and a…
Read moreThe 10th edition of the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival is sure to fill the city with a dazzling display of…
Read moreHome to Cirque du Soleil, the National Circus School, TOHU and more, Montreal is at the heart of Quebec’s billion-dollar…
Read moreShortly before Nik Wallenda attempts a high-wire walk over Times Square for an ABC special, which airs Sunday, another Sarasota…
Read moreJournalist André Chung visited Cuba in 2017, teaching photography and photo journalism, when he bumped into a rehearsal of Circuba…
Read moreMeet ENC (École Nationale de Cirque, Montréal) graduate Ron Oppenheimer! As the youngest of four siblings growing up in California,…
Read moreRuth Juliet Wikler is a name to know. Earlier this month, she was officially announced the Deputy Director of Programming,…
Read moreThis just in– good news from the Montréal circus venue TOHU announcing that the Deputy Director of Programming position has…
Read moreThe arts and cultural sector contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015—more than the agriculture, transportation, or…
Read moreThe Big Apple Circus, which finished a month-long run in Oaks on Sunday, has called off its arena tour, which…
Read moreAs a self-employed artist, you have already negotiated many contracts but have you done it correctly? Did you forget to…
Read moreSome of Montreal’s streets are about to turn into an open-air circus ring. From July 4 to 14, The Montreal…
Read moreCircus Flora is a longstanding tradition for many St. Louisans and is back in action this month for its 33rd…
Read moreJuggling or How To Become a Juggler: the annotated edition is another piece of juggling literature from Modern Vaudeville Press…
Read moreIf one were to look at the development of the American circus in the last 40 years, as I have…
Read moreIn a new documentary titled The Final Farewell about Ringling Bros., CEO Kenneth Feld is purported to have said “Ringling Bros….
Read moreIn early April the local Chicago arts press was invited for a ‘hard hat tour’ of the still under construction…
Read moreLegendary highwire acrobat Nik Wallenda announced on “Good Morning America”Thursday that he and his sister will embark on a high wire…
Read moreIt will be the 6th year for Physical Theater Festival Chicago (May 31st–June 8th, 2019), and as in previous years,…
Read moreWise Fool New Mexico Spokesperson, Life Coach and Educator Oriana Lee joins Wake Up Call Segment Host/Producer MK Mendoza to…
Read moreLast month in Washington DC, the Marriott Wardman Park hotel played host to the 2019 Popular Culture Association’s National Conference….
Read moreOn May 27th, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec will induct 17 new cultural ambassadors from Quebec…
Read more“You have a sense of humor, you know what’s funny, but what’s your sense of humor?” is how Joel Jeske…
Read moreJulio Revolledo Cardenas, widely considered to be the number one historian of Mexican circus, passed away last night in the…
Read moreThe news just broke, Cirque du Soleil, in a continued effort to diversify and distance itself from their brand as…
Read moreStep into the Hive: the first thing you might notice on the Hot Brown Honey stage is the giant honeycomb…
Read moreThe En Piste AGM(Annual General Meeting) is a chance for the circus community to come together once a year to…
Read moreBRATTLEBORO — The New England Center for Circus Arts is making its mark on the international performing arts scene. NECCA,…
Read moreAfter dazzling its audience within the hallowed halls of St Jax Montreal (1439 St-Catherine Street West), at the premiere of…
Read moreHENDERSON, Nev. (KLAS) — Some of the best aerialists and acrobats around the world return to Las Vegas this weekend….
Read moreIn our new series called Meet the Presenter-Tag, we explore the world of circus arts programming with different presenters and…
Read moreOn a recent Friday night inside The Muse Brooklyn, a circus-arts studio housed in a mammoth warehouse in Bushwick, aspiring…
Read moreAs circus arts become more popular, people of all ages and backgrounds are exploring circus arts for recreation, for fitness,…
Read moreThere were three walls visible on the stage at Krannert Center for Performing Arts when Réversible began–connected in a straight…
Read moreAfter finishing my second read through of Thom Wall’s Juggling From Antiquity to the Middle Ages—the forgotten history of throwing…
Read moreSARASOTA — A previously unknown video of the 2017 Circus Sarasota rehearsal that resulted in the collapse of Nik Wallenda’s…
Read moreThis short review in the Boston Globe is an indicator of the growing trend of circus as a contemporary art…
Read moreThe allegations against Michael Jackson in HBO’s new documentary “Leaving Neverland” are serious. In the two-part film which premiered on…
Read more“This is for you,” said director Bence Vági, handing me a printed paperback book whose cover showed blurred black and…
Read moreFor the month of February in 2019, a new production from France called When Angels Fall by Cie L’Oubliée’s founder…
Read moreLiberace brought Las Vegas into the living rooms of families across the country in the late-1970s with his CBS-TV specials…
Read moreSANTA FE – A Democratic proposal that seeks to allocate $100,000 for “circus arts” education in New Mexico is drawing ridicule from…
Read moreJoe Culpepper first felt the magnetic pull of magic at 14, when the boy who would become his best friend…
Read moreHouse Majority Leader K. Joseph Shekarchi introduced a bill that would protect defendants who settle in the Ringling Bros. case…
Read moreAs circus arts have increased in practice and popularity, many conversations within the circus community about representation, accessibility, and communication…
Read moreThe Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference, affectionately known as APAP, annually floods the midtown Hilton for a weekend in…
Read moreIn February of 2020, The 7 Fingers will officially be moving in to a new market, cruise ship entertainment. Along with…
Read moreIn a dystopian future that doesn’t appear as far-fetched as it should, a looming, manipulative entity watches over a machine-run…
Read moreBufano, an assistant professor in Berklee’s Film Scoring Department, will document technology’s impact on circus music. Peter Bufano, assistant professor in…
Read more3AM Theatre is one of the new breed of small circus companies like Cirque Us and Acrobatic Conundrum that is…
Read moreI hovered 30 feet off the ground, trying not to look down, a long loop of fabric my only support….
Read moreFour acts will be inducted into the Circus Ring of Fame on St. Armands Circle Jan. 13. They’ve walked the…
Read moreFrom July 3rd to 13th 2018, over twenty thinker-doers from a dozen countries, all practitioners and scholars of contemporary circus and/or…
Read moreFrom July 3rd to 13th 2018, over twenty thinker-doers from a dozen countries, all practitioners and scholars of contemporary circus and/or…
Read moreA short documentary by Amanda Levenson exploring how circus in North America has evolved in recent years. The United States…
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