A message to the circus community
In the past months, we have been busy bringing together people from all walks of circus life. From contemporary circus artists to traditional circus shows and festivals we have decided to join forces to create a message of hope and belief in the future. We have brought together a team of people to help us […]
Circus got hijacked by the cultural elite
This year we’re celebrating 250 years of circus. A year filled with events, masterclasses, lectures, festivals and other events celebrating circus was supposed to follow. Did celebrating 250 years of circus really add to the circus industry or has the cultural elite been hijacking circus? The past decade circus has changed significantly, we modernized, found […]
The sum of Pile-en-face
Pile-en-face consists of five young artists of different disciplines such as hand-to-hand, object manipulation and acrobatics. Together they have created a performance that has an interesting combination of smooth movements, a philosophical approach and a clear vision of what is needed to tell a story. Pile-en-face has created a performance about the inevitable search for […]
A painful truth by La Bella Tour
The average artist of traditional circus would instantly have the felt pain caused by a confronting piece of clowning being told by Roi Borallas and Guillermo (SP) Balagans. During their performance on Festival Boulevard (NL) they show the desperation of circus clowns in a tradition that slowly seems to die and disappear. A duo that […]
The essence of circus
For as long circus has been around it has displaying the capabilities of the human mind and body. Circus has brought people together from all social classes, from streetwise kids to the rich and famous they have all admired bodies, movements, the latest techniques. Circus artists took people by the hand in an exploration of […]
The circus is likely to survive
First there was television and then came the internet and then technology advanced. It has been an extra competition for the circus but it also brought us a lot of advantages. We could sell our tickets online but in the same moment people had gotten access to cheap and easy entertainment by pressing a button. […]
Why millennials abandon the circus
Today there are over a thousand circuses in Europe. The vast majority of those circuses present their shows travelling from town to town all across Europe. Each circus has its own area of focus, some present a style circus, some focus on acrobatics, comedy or prefers animals in their shows. It is all a matter […]
Our top 5 of best read blogs of 2016!
The end of the year is near, the season of lists and sum ups. We decided that it is time to share some of our statistics and our best read blogs with you. We had a lot of comments, likes, shares and visitors and we value those a lot. In the year to come more […]
What do you look for when booking the perfect entertainer for your event?
The past twenty years the circus has been evolving from the “big top and sawdust” image into shows that are a crossover from theatre and circus. The circus performer is not just highly skilled but often also crosses the boundaries between traditional circus, cabaret, sports and even corporate companies. Booking a magician for the […]
Circus; Back to the future
After a blog on how tradition kills the circus industry I got asked to write a follow-up story. Circus is spread across Europe in different shapes and forms. For the more traditional circuses, surviving becomes harder as they often exist out of “older” dynasties that tend to hold on to their old ways of running […]