8 Questions to Ask Yourself When Deciding Where to Study Circus
Ah spring, with longer days ahead, flower buds blooming, and… circus school auditions! Yes, audition season is upon us, with…
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Education
Circus Juventas Celebrates 25 years of Circus Excellence
25 long years ago, Dan and Betty Butler had a dream to create the world’s premier youth circus performing arts…
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So You Want My Arts Job: Circus Trainer
Loic Marques is the Training Director at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. He is a French National sports acrobatic champion…
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Arts and Lectures Bring the Circus to Town
The world of tamed tigers and tightwire artists has long captured the public’s fascination, transforming risk into a celebration of…
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6 Tips for Applying to Circus Schools
Applying for circus schools is confusing. Translating documents, finding application deadlines, calculating all the hours that you have ever spent…
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CSAW Introduces Its International Circus School Ambassadors
I spent three years applying and auditioning for professional circus schools before I found the right one for me. I…
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Exploring Self-Determination Through Circus Arts: New Research
A new research project has been published titled Self-Determination Through Circus Arts: Exploring Youth Development in a Novel Activity Context…
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Salto International Circus School–Portugal’s Professional Circus School Helps Students Discover Their Full Potential
It’s 7:30am. Time to have breakfast and get ready for school. Warm up starts at 9 am and “Livin’ la…
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AYCOFest 2019 – A Bright Future for Youth Circus in America
I arrived to the San Diego Circus Center hot, sweaty, and brimming with anticipation. A little boy in a red…
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Soon to Be Released: Reading Circus, A Documentary About Artistic Feedback
Zirkus Wissenschaft is at is again, creating sleek and practical multi-media materials for the circus practitioner, and this time they…
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Meet the Circus School – Community and Kinship, the NICA Culture in Australia
Found in the popular inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Prahran; the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is the only course…
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Kick off Your Contemporary Circus Career with Cirkus Cirkör’s Gymnasium Program
If you’re a Scandinavian teenager aspiring to become a contemporary circus artist, chances are Cirkus Cirkör’s gymnasium program is the…
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Quick Talk with Circomedia’s Dr. Bim Mason About the Circus Directing MA
In this companion article to Stav Meishar‘s Molding the Next Generation of Circus Directors at Circomedia , Circomedia co-founder and current…
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Molding the Next Generation of Circus Directors at Circomedia
In Autumn 2019, Circomedia‘s Graduate Class of 2019 will be graduating with a masters degree in Directing Circus. The six…
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Meet the Circus Graduate from ESAC, Julia Tesson
Meet future ESAC graduate Julia Tesson! Tesson was born into a circus family in France where she followed her mother…
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ESAC, A Contemporary Circus Sanctuary for the Virtuously Ambitious in Belgium
In our continuing series titled Meet the Circus School, we explore some of the many circus schools around the world….
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How to Get into French Circus School: Lyon’s Free Preparatory Circus Course
In our new series titled Meet the Circus School, we will explore some of the many circus schools around the…
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Flipside Circus Celebrates 20 Years!
Emerging from humble beginnings in the Brisbane suburb of West End, Flipside Circus grew rapidly from a small community organisation,…
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Dance and Contemporary Circus Merge in New Master’s Course
A new MA in dance and contemporary circus has been launched, billed as the first course of its kind in…
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The Risk of Circus Studies: Mapping the Current Landscape in US Higher Education
It was spring semester at Muhlenberg College. My Aerial 2 class and I were discussing how television was a detrimental…
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Frequently Asked Questions: Auditioning for a Circus School
The first time I auditioned for École nationale de cirque, I had only hung from stall bars a mere handful…
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A US National Study Shows Positive Impact of Circus Programming on Youth At Risk
Youth in social circus programs across the US are making big leaps in the skills they need to lead productive…
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Gender and Circus Coaching
The American Youth Circus Organization has a Youth Advisory Committee and they have put together an incredibly useful resource which…
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Thinking About Circus School at Circadium? A Word from the Executive Director
Dear Circus Talk Community, 2017 has been a spectacular circus year in Philadelphia, as we opened Circadium and moved into…
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Sign Up for the Instructor in Circus Arts E-learning Program Offered by École Nationale de Cirque
Course Description: École Nationale de Cirque in Montreal now offers an online version of the circus arts Instructor program in…
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Juggling the Timetable: Why Every School Should Teach Circus Skills in PE Lessons
PE courses involving circus skills – such as acrobatics, trapeze work, diabolo and even being a clown – are going…
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Circus Skills Send a New Message
The art of circus is being used to break down communication barriers for adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
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Notes From a Field School in a Burgeoning Field
Concordia Professor Patrick Leroux describes a field school program he organized for this summer that allowed graduate students a deeper…
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What’s the Point of a Degree in Circus Arts?
Let’s talk about circus education. Access to becoming a professional circus artist has grown exponentially. In the 1970s the first…
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America’s First Circus School Opens Its Philly Doors Next Month
In fewer than three weeks, Philadelphia can boast of another “American first” courtesy of a sprawling three-acre campus formerly known…
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Circus and Autism – Difference, Creativity, Community
Kristy Seymour tells the story of her mission to bring circus to children with autism, and the struggles she has…
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Circomedia Offer First Circus Directing Masters Degree
As the world of circus expands, more and more specialized roles are required. One school in the UK has come…
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Conference: Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific Knowledge and Creative Imagination
Call for Papers The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University presents Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific…
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Circus & Science: About Balls and the Brain
What happens when you put a neuroscientist like professor Maarten Frens and a juggler and psychologist like Harm van der…
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Circus Summer Seminar in Montreal
This year, Montreal is turning 375 years old and what better way to celebrate than with non-stop festivities? Montreal is…
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Quebec’s Circus Schools Are Working Without a Net
Province that produced Cirque du Soleil is coming up short on a new generation of homegrown circus talent. Pascal Duguay…
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Exchange between NICA and the Beijing International Arts School
This February NICA performance teacher and trainer Zebastian Hunter will travel to Beijing International Arts School to direct a student…
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Circus Pedagogue Sven Demey: “Circus Needs a New Revolution”
Sven Demey (47) has been a teacher at the École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (ESAC) in Brussels since 2004,…
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Circolombia: Marketing Talent Not Poverty
Around the world, we are in the midst of a circus education revolution. After centuries of circus know-how being passed…
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Czech and Balance: New Circus’ Emergence in the Czech Republic
Around the world, we are in the midst of a circus education revolution. After centuries of circus know-how being passed…
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Circus School – Russia
Inside a dreary Moscow building, there is a world of magic and music. This is the world’s first Circus school…
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