“I turned to clown because I didn’t know what else to do. I had to learn to bounce back, and I had to learn about resiliency. Clown is about resiliency and survival and bouncing back – and pleasure and hope and joy! It’s about the continued belief in tomorrow and the radical hope that this […]
CONTINUE READINGWomen & Circus sat down to interview long time CN supporter Patti Miller at Aerial Animals, about what it’s like to manufacture equipment for circus arts. After five years of sailing around the world, Patti explained that on the last long passage across the Atlantic toward home, they sailed in the company of a boat […]
CONTINUE READINGDoes contemporary circus have the potential to nurture and rightfully represent ourselves onstage: Our bodies, sexual preferences, identities and communities? Will it be effective in breaking down gender divides and heteronormativity in ways that create safer, more inclusive ways of being, and being together? At the Contemporary Circus Festival of Chicago, Circus Now hosted a […]
CONTINUE READINGMarie-Andrée Robitaille began her circus education in 1995 at the École de Danse de Québec and went on to graduate from the National Circus School in Montréal, Canada. She toured the world with the Swedish contemporary circus company Circus Cirkör during which time she debuted innovative acts on the Chinese pole, a discipline that had […]
CONTINUE READINGWomen’s Circus began in 1991 as a community arts project dedicated to using circus to work with survivors of violence in Melbourne, Australia. It has since expanded to include circus training, performance and outreach programs aimed at women and their communities. Steph Kehoe is the artistic director. WC: Women’s Circus started as a project […]
CONTINUE READINGWomen & Circus interviewed Suzanne Kenney for the fourth article in our series, ‘Entrepreneurs of Circus’. School: Pendulum Aerial Arts Location: Portland, Oregon Director: Suzanne Kenney Status: Not for Profit Students: 100 Women & Circus: How have you managed to succeed at running a successful circus business, and what do you think has contributed to […]
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