The Inexistent Secret To Auditioning
…is the question of whether or not your personality and professionalism will fit with whatever team is going to be creating the work. Globally these things will fall into priorities,…
Read more…is the question of whether or not your personality and professionalism will fit with whatever team is going to be creating the work. Globally these things will fall into priorities,…
Read more…profound opportunities for young people to express themselves, build confidence, and enhance their wellbeing, governmental funding structures especially lately fall short in supporting these crucial aspects. Compounded by escalating cuts…
Read more…the company. “Maybe we were like them when they were a young company,” says Tilde. Whatever the reason, they told their audiences to come see Cirkör’s show. “That’s when we…
Read more…quality because I find myself thinking about it as I try to fall asleep. So, decide when you will finish working and stick to it. Put your phone/laptop in another…
Read more…What I mean by this is when all we see in your video demo is the star singer in front, with just a few unidentifiable arms and legs passing behind…
Read more…Sofranie’s career took a fateful turn when she suffered a fall while performing on stage, ending her performance career, and ushering in a period of profound burnout that left her…
Read more…took a fateful turn when she suffered a fall while performing on stage, ending her performance career, and ushering in a period of profound burnout that left her bedridden for…
Read more…light as a mist of perfume… probably because, during the day, this amazing place sells all the rarest fragrances… At eight o’clock, three nights a week, when the last customers…
Read more…me as I cautiously stepped down onto its frozen surface; trepidatious of the unlikely chance that I might fall through. As I stood firmly with both feet on the lake,…
Read more…shared experience (at one point in the show, Grete asks the audience to stand up and not to let the thin material that separates the artist from the audience fall…
Read more…moment when the stage no longer wants you. Past, present, and future intersect in moments when the three women try to decide how to move on or if they should…
Read more…cabaret acts of all kinds, wild acts that reflected the city’s newfound freedom after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the people’s excitement to explore their new city. Fast-forward….
Read moreWhat is a safe and functional circus arts practice space? A new guide is published in the fall of 2023 in Quebec called “Guide d’aménagement des espaces de formation et…
Read more…including the risk of falling, beginning training typically focuses on individual skill acquisition and solo performance. Training for partnering, defined as two dancers sharing one apparatus, involves re-calibrating foundational aerial…
Read more…April 2024 (date TBD); Sailor Circus Arena; (tickets on sale this fall). The hot electronic dance music concert/fundraiser returns for a second year, with proceeds benefiting the CAC’s youth education…
Read more…18:30 1 DEC 15:00 2 DEC 15:00 3 DEC 11:00 Laboratório Artes – Teatro da Vista Alegre 45 min Immersion. Apathy. Apnea. Emotional depths, pitch. When everything moves at the…
Read more…advice. Especially when that advice comes from otherwise well-meaning outsiders and sounds something like this: “It’s all about who you know!” Yes, cue the eye-rolls and the groans: another cynical…
Read more…generating and presenting new work, and bringing together a community of like-minded people,” says Driggs. . Here are highlights from their inaugural fall season: ESREVER is a blend of live…
Read more…an official Weekend Conference in 2023. Much like the music hall itself, this conference is probably not what you’re thinking of when you hear the word “conference”: rather than being…
Read moreIn the US, Labor Day weekend always signals the end of summer and the beginning of fall routines. Vacationers get their last trips in, kids, parents and teachers prepare for…
Read more…performers to showcase their talent, and inspiring audiences young and old to irrevocably fall in love with circus. All images in this article credited to photographer Rogan Yeoh. Main Image:…
Read more…longer tend to them? When do the things and thoughts we leave behind become burdens, and when are they gifts? Can we both be refreshing fountains of reprieve for others,…
Read more…performance destination.” In Communitas, human sculptures and acrobatic encounters animate the tale of the founding of a civilization. Four performers tumble, climb, fly and fall in a physical language of…
Read more…style with a story of one woman’s meteoric rise to success and devastating fall from grace. This show is as fantastical as it is relatable and will take audiences on…
Read moreShana Carroll’s name does not require an introduction for anyone who follows the development of the circus arts. When at the beginning of May, the Conseil des arts et des…
Read more…chase our dreams! Who will steal the loot? Who will fall in love? Will they make it back home? Come find out on our journey to Fools Gold! Circus Juventas’…
Read more…Toulouse, France, with aerial silks as her specialty. However, destiny took an unexpected turn in 2016 when Corinne, while working as a circus artist, experienced a life-altering accident: a fall…
Read more…festival. Lessard has been top on my list for this series: “When I started the process of Scuse, I was really trying – maybe naively – to answer ‘What is…
Read more…As Feld Entertainment has announced the long-awaited return of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus’ live production The Greatest Show On Earth® that will debut in fall 2023, right…
Read more…Departments, including: Lighting cues (when lights should come up/down) Sound cues (when music should start/stop) Video cues Camera positions or working with an entire camera crew Automation/Rigging cues Special Effects…
Read moreFollowing a New York City premiere at Lincoln Center in the fall of 2022, Parallel Exit presents SUNSET CIRCUS from May 20-27, 2023 at 3AM Theatre, 920 35th Avenue, Queens,…
Read more…trapeze artists were like angels who had come to collect the bodies of the fallen and take them to heaven. “Les Cigognes” helped confirm the idea that the flying trapeze…
Read more…Your troubles fall away as each new drink is ordered and PM turns to AM. But when you are in need of telling someone who pushes paperwork more often than…
Read more…Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. The interview was intended to result in a review of the show, but instead, it has found…
Read moreFrom April 1-8, the Miniball Festival, presented by Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, returns this spring to lay the groundwork for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in the fall. Alongside a slew…
Read more…new year, I find that many of us attempt to establish financial savings habits, especially for the long term, but often fall short due to the challenges we face relating…
Read more…tears in her eyes. She just witnessed her kid, Maicol, missing a quadruple somersault in public. In 2013, in a tiny ancient Italian village on top of a hill, when…
Read more…is available on the website, so you can be notified of the upcoming fall 2023 cycle! https://youtu.be/XTvieX7c31w For inquiries and more information, visit Rachel’s profile on CircusTalk! You are about…
Read more…the Paris Opera and the professional circus-dance production Jump or Fall in Belgium to the student show B-orders at the Palestinian Circus School. Neves holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology…
Read more…don’t remember much of what happened in it. But I still feel the book in my body when I run, and especially when I eat after I run. Why? It…
Read more…so you can be notified of the upcoming fall 2023 cycle. The Audacity Project program is for aerialists, performers, and freelance performing artists—and packed with no-nonsense, actionable tasks that get…
Read more…The key is to make sleep a priority. When we are kids, we have strict bedtime routines that help us fall asleep. We think that our adult selves don’t need…
Read more…it is the most visible when set up,” describes Pahajoki. Saarni’s circus tent set up at Haukiputaa in 2023. © Aroi Arya The traditional circus images associated with tent circuses…
Read more…Medal of the 6th Festival in 1983, Founder & CEO of Angels Mongolian Modern Circus, President of the Mongolian Contortion Association, MONGOLIA Markus Pabst, Artist, Artistic Director BASE – Berlin,…
Read more…goes into survival mode when the curtain rises. The adrenaline and a sense of hyperawareness go up when one pushes their limits and faces danger. As enjoyable as performing an…
Read more…than training itself. But what are we actually referring to when we say “recovery”? First off, we have to understand the concept of homeostasis. Homeostasis is our bodies’ state of…
Read more…you start feeling shaky and stiff when you know that NOW is when it counts? Are you curious to understand this phenomenon? A daunting prospect I have experienced this myself….
Read more…started theater when I was four and circus when I was six. At first, circus was once or twice a week. Then when I was about ten, I started to…
Read more…probably have something to fall back on in case something happened, and I couldn’t perform anymore. You just never know what will happen when performing. This time at university I…
Read more…in a Black Sci-fi Christian home in the Bronx. My childhood was full of time travel, prayers, and the planet trying to recover from the apocalypse. There were Angels and…
Read more…of their 30th anniversary, Sean Gandini speaks on the company’s journey as well as its future plans. When Sean Gandini set out to perform his street show in Covent Garden,…
Read more…rolled through the summer and into the fall, with the final shows in Queens and the Bronx on October 30. Over the six-month season, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus presented 96 shows…
Read moreSTREB EXTREME ACTION is pleased to bring shows back to their home space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM). This fall’s performances, FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN, will…
Read more…studio, and onto the stage. Pre-pandemic collaborations Put yourself back before the pandemic when we went to conferences, sat around big tables, networked, and made new friends. You’re in a…
Read more…and support the professionalisation of circus in Finland. Cirko has four main models of activity: artistic development centre, presenter, production house and commercial circus operator. The activities that fall under…
Read more…bodies, in two of the most regularly sold-out shows at the Fringe. In both cases, intimate love stories between human beings. Between those two opposites fall an endless variety of…
Read more…other words, when a circus student reads circus history, they become a more creative, informed artist. Reading circus history, though, can also make us feel like our work has to…
Read moreWant to kick off your career by practicing circus arts at a world-class institute? Beginning this September, Australia’s National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is looking for students to join…
Read more…thinking and doing. I divide the course into two kinds of classes: activity-based days – when guest instructors teach circus skills such as juggling, aerial arts, and acro-balancing – and…
Read more…enough strength, flexibility, and endurance to fly over the audience again, and those artists fall into the hole of the medical system. Many artists decide when to return to general…
Read more…the bonus of getting to meet other artists from outside my Montreal bubble. I felt (and still feel) extremely lucky to have been given this chance when so many other…
Read more…in the troupe. When did you start your training? Bilal: We always say that we’ve been doing acrobatics since we were born! But we started training when we discovered Sarakasi,…
Read more…lose control when doing a catch/fall on an aerial apparatus, or for specific choreography, can generate enough force to do the same. Once more for my people in the back:…
Read more…a sustained dedication to failure. In order to learn how to balance on a unicycle, walk on stilts or on a high wire, a young person must learn to fall…
Read more…things up and do our first-ever spring tour. We were in the middle of a three-week rehearsal period when the world shut down that March. Doug Stewart in RagTag At…
Read more…Spring. We highlight here a few summer and fall festivals that are still calling for applications! Don’t miss your chance. These deadlines are approaching fast— the latest is April 15—…
Read more…by Spiegelworld in Las Vegas. I started acting when I was 3 years old on TV shows and in movies. I always combined dance and acting, and later, when I…
Read more…from disappointment. In its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to throw wrenches in our plans. The world seemed almost back to normal when, after a year of postponement, the…
Read more…are full of a variety of fears. When you see what it is the public needs, that’s when you are ‘serving’ them, when you are changing the world for the…
Read more…a base language, the festival’s events fall under 5 distinct domains that bring the arts into new contexts, such as public development, open debate, and support systems for contemporary circus….
Read more…would you budget the project to maximize the quality of materials while keeping the costs accessible? These questions came up in the fall of 2020 when Mollie Standford, regional librarian…
Read more…buffet of information that could fall into each of these categories, making it necessary to pick and choose what is relevant. Too much writing distracts the eye and important information…
Read more…the former leader of the Riga Circus and the new leader Mara Pavula in Fall 2021 at the press conference dedicated to the season opening. Photo: Kristine Madjare You…
Read more…where we land from the fall? And we climbed. We return to the rope, the climb, the structure, the jump, the other.” The festival will be stretched into a 10-day…
Read more…during its fall meeting. Taina Kopra, founder and artistic director of Sorin Sirkus, was appointed as the next president of Caravan. Congratulations to Taina! Taina will take over in January…
Read more…month full of uplifting shows inspired by the cultural roots of Malta is a stamp in quality for our country’s hospitality industry. Events of such calibre fall under our ultimate…
Read more…staff and patrons,” said Krista Bradley, Director of Programs and Resources of APAP, who will oversee the program. “At this unique moment, when our field is grappling with how and…
Read more…Don Dunfield Extreme Sports – Travis Pastrana Professional Acrobatics – Cristiani Family Trampoline/Tumbling – Karen Cockburn Charlie Pond Service Award – Nel Filliger Acrobatic Excellence Award – Blue Angels Golden…
Read more…as possible, several activities putting the talent of the next generation of contemporary dancers at the forefront will be presented to the general public, starting with, this fall: Les arbres…
Read more…body attentively, the crowd bursts into applause when the artist succeeds. It sometimes feels like porters are forgotten, aren’t getting as much light, especially since limbs extended above their head…
Read more…2021, and UK-based Gandini Juggling has a full summer and fall touring their hit show Smashed around the UK and Europe even as they are developing new works. With signs…
Read more…will reverberate around the athletic and performance world for years to come–when the most beloved and decorated gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the competition on Tuesday, July 27th. She explains…
Read more…the crowd, especially when juxtaposed with Caesar’s sharp tongue and the hard, fit bodies of the remaining cast who step up to reveal their circus superpowers one by one. Cunio…
Read more…itself. There is a level of physicality that exceeds expectations when done properly. The former acro sports champion affirms that a perfect handstand feels like levitation and transcends physical limitations….
Read more…Act,” presented at the 2020 FOLDA Festival. Direction by Joel Baker. Photo credit: Bon Evans Photography. When the pandemic hit, Taylor spoke about having a sudden and steep learning curve…
Read more…when applying for grants. Arts is shorthand for fine arts — that is, a creative medium to be appreciated for its aesthetic, imaginative, or intellectual content above all else. When…
Read more…– and since we are human beings, we are fallible. Someone who flies or swings, falls. Someone who catches a partner flying towards him, can miss the motion. The ring…
Read more…26th, 2021 throughout July 4th. They are also casting performers for a fall tour from September throughout October. Jodi Purdy Casting is looking for specialty performers for an original musical,…
Read moreI often get asked if I am a “certified circus rigger”. This question typically comes from individuals and programs looking for small-scale rigging. When I say small scale, I am…
Read more…production of statistical data is even more difficult when it comes to the circus, due to the itinerant nature of the companies, but also because of the difficulties in defining…
Read more…back , e.g. if you lose control when doing a catch/fall on an aerial apparatus, or for specific choreography, can generate enough force to do the same. Once more for…
Read more…up live performance! Let’s fight for it! Related Content: When Angels Fall –French Devised Performance with Circus at Its Core Inspiring US Audiences, A Mix Of Circus And Dance, ‘When…
Read more…in which circus is a theme. This can result in false positives when searching for records that focus exclusively on circus, but these results may be useful to scholars interested…
Read more…money for those involved. When we advocate the economic importance of our industry we also fall into this reductive way of thinking. This is a commercial approach to making performance…
Read more…as I believe that the format CircusWorks has invented serves as a great example for community outreach during times when physical contact is limited. Un-Conference runs weekly until August 28th…
Read more…the same time. Registration for the CINARS Biennale will open in the fall. CINARS establishes ongoing links with performing arts professionals internationally. In order to maintain these essential relationships with…
Read more…line from one area to another, and a 6-year-old student trips and falls down. The student was frightened by the fall and the impact hurt, but they were not injured….
Read more…in what you said about contemporary circus not being an escape for the audience. How have audiences responded to Peak Performance programming? When Angels Fall by Raphaëlle Boitel. Photo by…
Read more…to make the transition into directing. Kim Campbell: Joel, you were all set to direct the graduating student show with NECCA’s pro track class for 2020 when coronavirus put a…
Read more…when motionless, as would occur when they hold a pose. During such poses the force in the hanging equipment will be equal to the acrobat’s weight. However, when the acrobat…
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