“This event is about the future.” 

This is how Frank Hentschker, Executive Director and Director of Programs at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center opened a day-long event celebrating the publication of Contemporary Circus, a new book co-authored by Katie Lavers, Louis Patrick Leroux, and Jon Burtt published by Routledge. The authors have compiled interviews with twenty-four contemporary circus artists and organized the answers into categories: Apparatus, Politics, Performers and New Works. Its aim is to bridge the divide between practice and the...