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Rigas Cirks-A New Center for Contemporary Circus

Rigas Cirks visited CPH Stage: Q&A with Māra Pāvula

At this year’s CPH Stage, DCI in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had invited Rigas Cirks’ Mara Pavula to Copenhagen to participate in the festivals international program. The visit was a follow up to the International Conference on Circus Education i Riga in April, where Danish circus education was represented by Søren Flor, Head Teacher at AFUK/AMoC, and Anne Mette Nørskov, Coordinator at AFUK/AMoC, that is based in Copenhagen.

Rigas Cirks – you hardly need to say any more – your mind is swept away to a world of joy and excitement, laughter, the smell of wood shavings, clowns tumbling around, dogs doing tricks, beautiful horses, massive elephants … But this is a glimpse of what Riga Cirks used to be. The circus building in the capital of Latvia is one of the oldest circuses in Europe, with their first season beginning in 1888.

In 2018 a sketch design competition for the renovation of the historic building was launched, and the house will undergo a transformation to a multifunctional art centre and a contemporary venue for circus…

 

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