We hear that you are facilitating a seminar with Concordia University this summer about Quebec performing arts with a focus on circus. How did you get the idea to organize such a seminar and when is it?

conic Montréal Complètement Cirque‘s celebration of international contemporary circus to the Just for Laughs  festival of comedy. This year, Montreal plans to celebrate even harder with their 375MLT events running strong all summer (which means even more circus on the streets). What you may not know is that in among that sea of jazz fans, start-up CEO’s and comedy-goers will be a cadre of circademics, thanks to a determined circus and theater scholar named Dr. Patrick Leroux. This year, he continues with his mission (last summer he and colleagues Karen Fricker and Charles Batson organized a conference) of facilitating more circus exposure for academics by offering up a summer intensiv...