Tensions are running high in the venue as the circus theatre students prepare for their upcoming show. Circomedia, based in

In her article titled Are Female Clowns Like the Others? circus artist, and author of the book The New Clowns: A

Jon Sopel has a new book out this month – A Year at the Circus. But the BBC’s North America

Circus was created to fill a gap left by ‘serious’ theatre. Now a new generation of performers is rejecting bureaucratisation

The CIRCa festival is the mecca of contemporary circus. As it’s director, Marc Fouilland likes to call it “le rendez-vous

In a British circus, you will no longer find big cats, dancing bears or sea lions balancing on balls. Anne,

I was almost thirty years old when I joined the circus school in my new city, Ghent, around the turn

Dear circus artists, We need to talk. Not about your circus practice, though – not here, not this way. It’s

Miss La La was the star of the show when Edgar Degas painted her in 1879 hanging by her teeth

This past Sunday, Apr. 15, the Barefoot Monkeys’ Spring Show performance dazzled with fire, props (the professional term is toys),

n April 19, circus artists from around the world will reunite at their old school in Belgium to mark the

La Grainerie in France is currently programming a series of shows called Creatrices created by women. This article discusses the

Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris is one of the world’s most famous circus festivals, about to celebrate

At the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo, an unlikely figure is leading the charge to transform the circus for

The Circus world is experiencing more and more activities and events that focus on gender and its influence in circus

  With the announced closure of the famed Ringling Brothers Circus, it may appear that a beloved form of entertainment

A new initiative to transform circus in Britain threatens to strip the Big Top of its intoxicating magic. I gasped,