Ariel Schmidtke: Can you explain a bit about your creation process? Smoke and Mirrors is very philosophical and I am curious to know if you start with an issue you wish to investigate and then create choreography that interacts with it, or do you start with choreography and then notice the philosophical issues that are […]
CONTINUE READINGIn the autumn of 2014 I received a Grants for Artists Projects (GAP) award from the Seattle-based organization Artist Trust to finish purchasing the equipment I needed to complete my first solo show, Equilibrium. Artist Trust is a “not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in […]
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 READINGOn Sunday May 24th, Circus Now held a webinar with the Director of Insurance for Fractured Atlas. We reviewed some basic concepts of insurance for performing artists like: what kind of insurance do you need? What different types of insurance are there? What should you look for in a good policy? If you missed the […]
CONTINUE READINGOne of the topics that consistently comes up in this field both in casual conversations with colleagues and professional panels on contemporary circus, is a deep concern with developing and accessing strategies to gather resources and support for the creation of artistic work. Contemporary Circus is experiencing an exciting evolution in its advocacy, and as […]
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