Fragments from the Editors’ Note–Thinking (Through Circus) Together–A Book Giveaway
In times of climate catastrophe, refugee crises and Covid-19, the question of the responsibility that artists and scholars have is…
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Reviews
Cirque Alfonse Says ‘Tabarnak!’ to Canadian Winter–A Review
It is strange in these times of canceled shows to read a review, but it just so happens that our…
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Vietnamese Bamboo Circus Bursts with Boundless Invention
This inspired circus from Vietnam draws upon twin impulses in the contemporary art form to create something stunning, immersive and…
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Chasing Smoke Brings First Nations Experiences into the Circus Ring
“It’s an all-Indigenous circus show that has all the flavours typical of contemporary circus; you’ve got trapeze, corde lisse, tumbling…
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Leviathan Review: Circa’s New Production Explores the Ordinary, Extraordinary Mass of Humanity
As the audience takes their seats, two feet poke out from beneath the curtain. In hindsight, it’s the first trick…
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Review: FLIP Fabrique’s Blizzard Is a Welcome Respite
Here in Chicago, we think we get winter. Our unique understanding of the nuances of lake-effect snow and our ability…
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Love as a Balancing Act: Literally
Circus today is well-suited to portraying love from the inside out, straying as it does into borderlands of dance and…
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The Circus of Tomorrow is Full of Surprises for Today
January of 2020 was my first visit to the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, and it proved to be…
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Classic & Modern Circus Meld at Monte Carlo International Circus Festival – 44th Edition
The quality of dreams… Escaping notions such as “traditional” and “contemporary,” the world’s oldest circus festival shows the way to…
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Sex Positivity with Your Aerial Spins? The WonderWombs Wields a Fearless Mix of Circus, Women’s Issues, and Laughter
One of the most risk-taking shows in town right now is a circus—and we’re not necessarily talking about the Dust Palace’s gravity-defying aerial…
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Life-The Show (Strut & Fret Production House, Sydney Festival)
LIFE – The Show is brought to us by Strut & Fret’s Creative Director Scott Maidment who returns with a…
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Acrobats are Athletes
With the beauty of gymnastics in full display during the recently concluded 30th Southeast Asian Games, our attention is captured by…
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Top 50 shows of 2019: Circus
From the best musicals and plays to spectacular productions from the worlds of circus, immersive theatre, opera and dance, The…
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Tassels, Capes and Reindeer Onesies: New Takes on Traditions Ring in the Circus Holiday Season
Ah! New York City in December! A month brimming with expectation and joy while bristling with deadlines and tension. In…
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LEME Contemporary Circus Festival 2020 – In the Beginning, There Was Matter
“In philosophy, matter is the manifestation of reality, as opposed to the idea (Plato). Embracing reality. We chose matter as…
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Sick, NICA (VIC)
Sick presented by NICA’s Bachelor of Circus Arts third-year students is a slick, sophisticated and utterly human contemporary circus work set…
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Critics Face-Off: De Ritis and Campbell Dissect the New Book Contemporary Circus. Plus, a Giveaway!
In the new book titled Contemporary Circus, three academics with a focus on circus studies (Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt) endeavor…
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Who Brought the Jugglers to the Metropolitan Opera?
When the curtain rose on Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” last month, Sean Gandini was sitting twenty feet above the Metropolitan…
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Circus Goes Atomic! Spiegelworld’s New Show Goes from Edinburgh to the Las Vegas Strip
“Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.”…
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Circus in Your Personal Space–with Se Prendre
My first introduction to the show Se Prendre came as a pleasant surprise. Se Prendre means ‘To Take’ in French,…
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Juggling in the Opera with Gandini–Akhnaten Comes to The Met
Juggling features heavily in Phelim McDermott’s US premier of the production of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, now playing at the New York Metropolitan…
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FIRCO, a Taste of Iberoamerican Circus: A Photo Documentary
Nerves are on edge. The backstage fills up with the sound of advice, last minute hugs, calls to the family….
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Conversations with Creators About Expanding the Nucleus of Contemporary Circus
“This event is about the future.” This is how Frank Hentschker, Executive Director and Director of Programs at the Martin…
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Fresh Start and Old Ending? Australian Circus Company Circa Brings Its Second U.S. Premiere to NYC with En Masse
A man (Robert Murray) draped in robes sings a Schubert aria, his knit hat, fingerless gloves and staff in hand…
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Acrobatic Play Opens Arts Festival
The 21st China Shanghai International Arts Festival opened on Friday night with acrobatic play “Dawn in Shanghai” at Shanghai Grand…
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Recreating the Magic: Saint John’s Second International Circus Festival
If “Spread the magic!” was Anahareo Dölle’s motto for the first Saint John’s International Circus Fest in 2018, the event’s…
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Teatro ZinZanni’s Love, Chaos & Dinner Recasted
With a show named Love, Chaos and Dinner, you’d think you’d know what you are about to get served. But…
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Circus Fans of America—Seeking Next Generation of Torchbearers for Traditional Circus
In a circular ballroom on the twelfth floor of Springfield’s La Quinta hotel with a stunning view of western Massachusetts,…
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The Escape Act: Hiding from the Holocaust – The Story of a Family Saved by the Circus
The Escape Act is a clever culmination of seven years of in depth research into the life of Irene Danner-Storm,…
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Some Strings Attached: Meet the Women of Tangle, Fringe’s High-Flying All-Female Circus Troupe
If your impression of Cirque du Soleil is dorky, bizarre, spellbinding or thrilling, this local, smaller rendition aims to give…
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Berlin Circus Festival 2019: Two Perspectives
The fifth Berlin Circus Festival took place between August 23 and September 1st. It is a trip that starts at Tempelhof park,…
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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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Introducing Modern Vaudeville Press
The juggling community as a whole knows Thom Wall as “the Vaudeville Sensation.” But more and more people are discovering…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—Sinister Clowning with The Long Pigs
Three clowns with black noses dominate the stage, busily manufacturing misery. Their monochrome world is colored only by two things,…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight— Filament Brings Broadway Vibe to Circus
Eight high school students fuss about their looks, jockey for social position and explore romantic relationships with one another in…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—How Australian Circus Dominates at Underbelly–A Case Study
Sitting with Lauren Eisinger before a day of triple Australian shows at Underbelly’s Circus Hub, I had a chance to…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—This Time, Connecting with Ockham’s Razor
On an aerial device that is a giant rectangle, four people slowly explore their boundaries in the air. They depend…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—Raven, A Reflection on Motherhood
In Germany, an insult that is used to shame women for daring to have a career and children is ‘raven…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—Casus Has Circus in Their DNA
Seven acrobats in red fly across the stage, prop each other up, climb atop a tower of their kin, play…
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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—Join the Feast
Feast by Clout Theatre is on at Summerhall until August 18th, and if you like your physical theater with a heavy…
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Edinburgh Fringe Circus Spotlight–XOXO Moongirl Glows
Disaster—or the possibility if it. A glass of milk precariously close to the edge of a table. This is how…
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Gandini’s Spring Demonstrates the Abstract Beauty of Dance & Juggling Combined
Spring by Gandini Juggling arrived in Montreal midsummer (July 3-8) to be part of the Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival, filling up the…
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Wunderage is the Daring New Circus Show that Involves the Audience
Wunderage is Rob Tannion’s last show with Cirque Oz before he heads over to work with Cirque du Soleil. It…
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Stop and Read: Early 20th Century Juggling Manual Re-Release!
Juggling or How To Become a Juggler: the annotated edition is another piece of juggling literature from Modern Vaudeville Press…
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The Queens of Hot Brown Honey Are Finally Centerstage
Step into the Hive: the first thing you might notice on the Hot Brown Honey stage is the giant honeycomb…
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Pearls of Juggling–Wisdom & Advice from Anthony Trahair
Pearls of Juggling is a labor of love kind of book (and blog) written by Anthony Trahair. The book was…
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Traditional and Contemporary Collide in Circus Krone Mandana Premiere
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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The Roar of Pure Circus–MonteCarlo International Circus Festival – 43rd Edition
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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Breaking Down the Wall Between Generations in Réversible by The 7 Fingers
There were three walls visible on the stage at Krannert Center for Performing Arts when Réversible began–connected in a straight…
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Clumsy, Long and Lacking Circus Thrills: Tim Burton’s Dumbo Reviewed
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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Drinking Deep from the Well of Juggling History with Thom Wall–A Book Review & Giveaway
After finishing my second read through of Thom Wall’s Juggling From Antiquity to the Middle Ages—the forgotten history of throwing…
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Circa’s Peepshow is a Coup for Castlemaine State Festival
Circa is one of the great success stories in Australia’s performing arts scene, rising from a boutique operation in Brisbane…
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Back to the Future: How Classical Music and Contemporary Circus are Developing New Theatre Audiences in Italy
In a country where names like Rossini and Verdi are just a few eponyms of an even greater tradition, the…
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The French Festival that Captures the Spirit of Contemporary Circus
The Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque (BIAC) organised by Archaos, Pôle National Cirque in Marseille takes place every two…
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Never Alone: Dualities of Circus Tradition and Innovation
“This is for you,” said director Bence Vági, handing me a printed paperback book whose cover showed blurred black and…
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When Angels Fall –French Devised Performance with Circus at Its Core Inspiring US Audiences
For the month of February in 2019, a new production from France called When Angels Fall by Cie L’Oubliée’s founder…
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Graduates Causing Friction at CNAC
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 Mix Of Circus And Dance, ‘When Angels Fall’ Imagines A Dystopia That Pits Humanity Against Technology
In a dystopian future that doesn’t appear as far-fetched as it should, a looming, manipulative entity watches over a machine-run…
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Four Faces of Contemporary Circus: A Taste of the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque
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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French-Vietnamese Circus Makes Sydney Opera House Debut
Sydney Tuesday 5 February, 2019. This June, ground-breaking contemporary circus troupe Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam will make their Opera House…
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Fringe World: YUCK Circus is Ready to Kick Art
YUCK Circus is a show which couldn’t have been timed better. With the #metoo movement and the recent Gillette advertising…
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Dea Birkett: Disability is No Laughing Matter When it Comes to Circus Artists
A man limps awkwardly on to the stage, mimicking a mouth twisted to one side, head bent towards his feet….
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Stunning Circus, Clowns with Ruffs and Magical Comedy in Pick of the Night Shows
Garry Starr wants to save theatre. In order to complete his mission, this clown in a Shakespearean ruff – and sometimes little…
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A Second Coming–Australia’s Briefs Factory Confronts NYC with Queer Circus, Drag & Burlesque
Makeup and mustaches, feathers and leather, bananas and balloons, these opposites are toyed with in just the right proportion to…
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Mixing Mozart and Acrobatics in Circa’s Delightful Family Show
Circa is one of the great Australian success stories in the arts. In just over a decade, artistic director Yaron…
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Gandini’s Smashed Delivers A Disquieting Minefield of Apples, Tea Sets and Gender Dynamics
I was blown away by Gandini Juggling’s production of Smashed this past Saturday. Apples become grenades and decimate the landscape….
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PASSAGERS – Why We Need to Keep on Going
An imaginary train station, a train that forms and deconstructs itself in front of the eyes of hundreds of spectators,…
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Cirque Éloize’s Stylish New Creation HOTEL
As part of our three-part series Circus Talk will run this year on the 25th anniversary of Cirque Éloize, we…
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Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts–A Treasure for Circus Libraries
The new book Applied Anatomy of Aerial Artists by author and Doctor of Physical Therapy Emily Scherb (aka The Circus Doc)…
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Big Apple Circus: Back on its Feet, but Fastened to Tradition
A familiar blue tent is cozied amidst the daunting buildings of Lincoln Center. The Big Apple Circus has returned to…
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FIRCO: La Fiesta del Circo Iberoamericano
To read this article in English, click here. Del 19 al 21 de octubre el Teatro Circo Price de Madrid…
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Para leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí. From 19th to 21st of October 2018, Teatro Circo Price in…
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Circus Oz’s New Festival ‘Sidesault’ is a Multi-Dimensional Masterpiece
Celebrating 40 years of Circus Oz in 2018, Australia’s leading troupe of theatre, satire and rock’n’roll keep the thrills coming…
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Circus Voices at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018: A Platform for Cultivating Future Circus Critics
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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The International Circus Cookbook–A Review
Did you ever wonder what most circus artists eat to fuel their bodies? Thanks to Samuel Sion (aka Rose) and…
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Dystopia, Trauma and Grotesque Ballet: the Gut-Wrenching Darkness of Modern Circus
Three of Brisbane festival’s eight world premieres come from some of Australia’s most exciting companies – and their takes on…
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Letní Letná–An International Festival of New Circus & Theatre–Czech It Out!
It would be impossible to ignore the setting of the Letní Letná festival and how it contributes to its charm….
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At This Circus Festival, the Highflying Meets the Highbrow
PRAGUE – This city has a well-documented taste for the surreal. It is, after all, the home of Franz Kafka…
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What Scientists Have to Say About Juggling–By Thom Wall-a Review
There is an art and science to juggling. Thom Wall demonstrates the art of juggling in his vaudeville juggling performances…
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Notorious or Dangerous…or both?–A review of Notorious Strumpet & Dangerous Girl at Edinburgh Fringe
As the audience files into the Mainhall at Summerhall (venue #26 of the Edinburgh Fringe), we are greeted with a…
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Circus Tradition and Experimentation Make a Seductive Mix in Lexicon
Roll up, roll up for the 250th anniversary of circus as we know it. Daring high-wire acts! Death-defying trapezes! Crazy…
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Mexico’s Changing Circus Landscape: Visit to Periplo International Circus Festival
The 6th Edition of the International Circus Movement’s Festival Periplo concluded recently with a splendid three-week circus celebration that attests…
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From Animal Acts to Contortion, How the Circus Has Reinvented Itself for the Modern Age
Pascal Jacob knew he wanted to work in the world of the circus from the age of four. “Every Wednesday,…
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The Male Duo in Circus– Un Poyo Rojo & Chute!
There are two men on stage, breathing heavily as they perform acrobatic maneuvers that give me butterflies in my stomach….
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Is Australia the Next Circus Superpower?
The mayor of Montréal opened the 2018 Montréal Completement Cirque Festival with a speech that lauded the city as “la capitale mondiale…
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The (Graduation) Show Must Go on at École national de cirque
It’s perhaps an understatement to say that the École national de cirque has an awful lot on its plate right…
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Cannes: Latido Takes Carlos Diegues’ ‘The Great Mystical Circus’ With Vincent Cassel (EXCLUSIVE)
CANNES — Carlos Diegues’ “The Great Mystical Circus,” which unspools in a special screenings slot at Cannes, has been acquired…
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A Story Without Words with The Exploded Circus
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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Circus Sessions 2018 Makes a Bold Move, Proving that Circus is for Everybody
This year’s Circus Sessions, was a bold experiment in accessibility. Produced by Femmes du Feu, where Holly Treddenick is artistic…
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A Picture of Circus in Brussels, Part Two
Brussels is positioning itself to be one of the main circus centers of Europe, a distinction which is only enhanced…
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Even When I Fall Documentary Review: A Big Enough Tent for All
Just because you work in a circus doesn’t mean you’re a prostitute.” This is a statement of feminist support, a…
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A Picture of Circus in Brussels – Part One
Brussels is positioning itself to be one of the main circus centers of Europe, a distinction which is only enhanced…
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The Secret Life of Clowns by Jeff Raz: Part Storytelling, Part Curriculum—All Heart
I don’t know if it’s ever been said that a clown is the heart of circus, but it sure rings…
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Adelaide Fringe review 2018: By a Thread
MELBOURNE-based One Fell Swoop Circus gives the Adelaide premiere of By A Thread, a circus show based on — and…
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Love at First Sight– Circus in Montreal
Coups de Coeur is the name of an annual circus show that distracts Montreal from the dead of winter. Over…
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DIY Circus Lab for Kids— A New Book By Circademic Jackie Leigh Davis
A new resource book about circus will be released in February of 2018 entitled DIY Circus Lab for Kids. It…
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Les 7 Doigts Plus 4D Art Equals Intimate Multimedia Show Temporel
The superhuman brio of circus skills, the spectacular dazzle of digital technology. The raison d’être of both these activities is,…
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“The Greatest Showman” — Fun Movie, But Wow, Did They Get the History Wrong
Here’s the good news about the new Michael Gracey/20th Century Fox film The Greatest Showman. It’s fun. The choreography is…
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The Circus Express Inspires San Diego Folks To Follow Their Dreams
The San Diego Circus Center showcased the students from their preparatory program in a weekend show series (December 15, 16…
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Cirque Musica Combines Acrobatics with Live Music Played by an Orchestra, to Tell a Holiday Story about How Belief Can Change Perceptions
There’s no denying symphony orchestras are struggling, no more than the old-fashioned circus that included animal performers. For proof, look…
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