Last year, from November 14 to 16, Zeit für Zirkus presented contemporary circus on stage in several cities across Germany and brought it to life at the international La Nuit du Cirque. Over the course of a weekend, a diverse programme of performances, workshops, exhibitions, parties, online formats and activities

At the festival for contemporary circus in Cologne, Zeit für Zirkus, representatives from politics and the independent performing arts discuss the lack of space and dependencies. It makes me think that you can tell the working conditions by the footwear. Steel-toe caps are required in workplaces where heavy objects are

performance II: Beneath the pillow on which I rest, I feel the hard, cool floor of the white cube. A warm, muted light falls on three bodies suspended from ropes attached to the four-meter-high ceiling, their limbs tightly entwined. The door closes softly behind those entering, who search for their

Hi,  Before we start, I’d like you to ask yourself:  Is this the right time to read this article? Why do you want to read it? Do you feel obliged to do so? To be honest about our current feelings must be one of the first steps toward taking

After our previous joint articles on Mentally Safe(r) Spaces and  Decoloniality and Questioning Privilege as Embodied Practices, together with the independent researcher Gaia Vimercati, we meet again to generate an inspirational keynote in the frame of the Take Care Conference at CircusDanceFestival 2025. Evidence shows that in circus practice,

In last year’s conference, Circus - a Safe(r) Space for Danger, Codarts participated, delivering an insight into their studies on risk. Building on the findings from physical injury studies, we now move forward and contextualise the vital necessity of a scientific approach to emotions and needs within the

DYNAMO Circus Festival is back for its 6th edition from 18th to 21st of June in Odense, Denmark, packed with contemporary circus, music, celebration, community and unpredictable experiences. DYNAMO festival is a four-day-long tour de force of wildness, poetry, humour and magic. Its goal? To be a place for artists

Can contemporary circus in public spaces contribute to the sustainable development of circus disciplines while being creatively enriched by locally rooted connections? Yes, with the significant support of Social Ecology, the research branch examines how individuals interact with their environment, how their habitat shapes them, and how these interactions influence

My invitation to the RagBag Festival in Kerala arose from the, in India, highly unusual approach of making contemporary circus a central theme of a performance festival. Sasikumar Vallikkatte, theatre festival director and artistic director of RagBag, and Abhilash Pillai, director and head of the School of Drama & Fine

The 2025 edition of CircusDanceFestival hosts the kick-off event of the first-ever Creative Europe project dedicated to mental health and well-being in the circus arts sector initiated by FEDEC - International network for professional circus education, Take Care. This conference explores the relationship between the individual and the collective, tackling

This graphic novel is part of IMAC#2, the inter-magazine circus festival project which brings together 3 international circus magazines, Around About Circus, Juggling Magazine and StageLync, all part of the INCAM network, and students from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, who share their thoughts on circus architecture. The analysis

This article is part of IMAC#2, the inter-magazine circus festival project which brings together 3 international circus magazines, Around About Circus, Juggling Magazine and StageLync, all part of the INCAM network, and students from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, who share their thoughts on circus architecture. The analysis of