Circus Now collaborated with the American Youth Circus Organization/American Circus Educators Association to create the first ever “State of Circus ” survey this year. The survey was opened August 1st and ran through Sept 30th. After two months and 710 responses, we decided it was time to close up and share the results! Some sections are more interesting than others, and sometimes I make jokes as we look at the data together. The demographics section doesn’t have any jokes.
CONTINUE READINGI met Ronny Kalev while she was teaching an advanced aerial class at the Israeli Acrobatic Convention. I knew immediately after the class that I wanted to pick her brain about circus. Her teaching wasn’t about new, impressive tricks; rather, she wanted to make the students think of the body as a tool for expression. […]
CONTINUE READINGThis summer, I caught up with Abby Neuberger and Michelle Troszak at a contemporary circus festival in Paimpont, a small town in the Northwest corner of France. They are students at Flic, a full-time circus preparatory school in Turin, and they were performing their end-of-studies collective show there at the festival, Arrête ton Cirque. Abby, […]
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