People are taking the time not just to do circus, but to talk about circus academically as the industry forges ahead. Seminars that discuss and discover the depth and nuances of the field are popping up at festivals and sometimes even as a separate entity. Festival UP is one of the festivals that notes the importance of this type of collaborative inquiry. The festival, run by Espace Catastrophe, will take place at 13 venues across Brussels, offering the public a wide variety of more than 30 shows on March 12th -25th 2018.

Photo courtesy of Jorge Fidel Alvarez One sign that the festival is growing is that  Circostrada is hosting a seminar called FRESH CIRCUS #4 that runs concurrently (March 13th-15th in Brussels) and that advocates for the circus sector as a whole by organizing a...