Friday, March 31, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Ernest Albrecht is the foremost circus writer in the US and, although this book is now over 20 years old, it still holds a wealth of information that's relevant to circus companies today.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2017
Max likes birds. Max really likes birds. Max also likes setting the scene… really really well. Something Max doesn't seem to like is risk. Unfortunately for this show.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
This month we made a pilot for a monthly 'What's On' guide for circus in the UK. Let us know what you think!
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
The show is an exploration of connection between the two women in an abstract world. I don't know who they are, or why they're here (I imagine some unspoken Godot), but I recognise the inter…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Circomedia's third year students show us what they've learnt in their final ensemble project, Ten. Made in only a few weeks, and to be taken on tour around South of England and Wales, lets …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
A punch of emotion smacks me in the gut. The power caught up in this hour of high octane clowning, body-rocking, strength and struggle is released, with a glint of water in my eyes. Effet Be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:15AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
In this book, curated by Wim Claessen, a recognisable portrait of the circus arts today is constructed through distinct interview essays and elegant black and white photographs.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
As I enter the darkened studio space, laid with a carefully picked out domino path of bare wooden blocks, a tilted table, and piles of wooden tiles, my eye is caught by sand trickling from t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2016
Zippos Circus have been a fixture amid the fairy lights of Hyde Park Winter Wonderland since 2009, presenting a family show during the day, and more daredevil fare in the evening.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
The biennial Dutch festival of international circus arts has had a rebrand this year, from the tongue twisting Circo Circolo to the plainer Festival Circolo. I am pleased to report, however…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]'Did you know this is a family circus?' I'm asked by my acrobat neighbour, as we take our seats on the wooden benches around the sawdust ring. I was aware that Belgian troupe, Circus Ronaldo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
2016 marks the 500th anniversary since the death of medieval Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. His vivid and visionary vistas, where fantasy landscapes are peopled with with earthy human chara…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
Juggling Trajectories is the first book to be published by Gandini Juggling's imprint, Gandini Press, and is an interesting and rich retrospective of 25 years as a company, packaged as a hef…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Impresario Gerry Cottle has one of the most recognisable names in British circus and family entertainment, thanks to an extensive touring career over half a century, regular television appea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The Circus Studies reader from Routledge is the first of its kind, combining academic essays from a global collection of scholars into one English language volume. The result is a rich and d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 15, 2016
The first full length theatrical show from roller-skating and aerial duo Bella Kinetica is a scrapbook of animated sound clips, a series of vintage moments that chart aspects of a lifelong f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2016
The current incarnation of Citrus Arts' Ceirw " Savage Hart is a gothic fairytale of fading glories, told through narrative dance that draws on classical ballet, folk, and aerial languages.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
The special preview of He Ain't Heavy from Grania Pickard and her newly formed company, Oddly Moving Circus Theatre, was accompanied an invitation to a group of local writers and circus enth…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Wild West inspired acts have been a feature of circus since William Cody's Buffalo Bill show took off across the States in the late 1800s. Trick riding, so often associated with cowboys and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
What is your relationship to rules? Inside The Machine, you may discover that your freedoms and compliance are not as clear cut as you imagined. The latest show from Collectif and then… is…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2016
Zombies, super-strength and test-tube potions are the order of the day in Elixir, from the Australian team of Head First Acrobats (HFA). Or, more correctly, the order of the night " the prog…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2016
The seminal juggling extravaganza Water on Mars has been around in a variety of live and videoed incarnations since 2012, but the 'waterboy' dream-team of Patrik Elmnert, Tony Pezzo and Wes …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]In their native Australia, the effects of climate change are currently felt more keenly than here in Europe, and the politics surrounding the issue are more prominent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
The latest production from Compagnie du Hanneton is a theatrical wonder that builds on their reputation for exquisite spectacle. James Thiérrée has genius of both skill and imagination, an…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]Like pieces of beautiful flotsam, we are washed through Casus' latest production, Driftwood, where human encounters, collisions, and partings are subject to the implacable tide of time and c…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
In 2013, Circa won a Total Theatre 'Significant Contribution' Award at Edinburgh Fringe, for pushing the boundaries of what 21st Century circus can look like. Their offering this year, Close…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2016
The Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows in Edinburgh's Fringe seems to be the perfect venue for a children's show. Bright colours surround the two venues (one big top, one Spiegeltent thi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Joli Vyann draw from both circus and dance vocabularies to create an indicative style that is neither one nor the other, but a nuanced hybrid of contemporary dance and acrobalance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2016
It is a 50 minute solo show about handstands. Throughout the show, Natalie Reckert will explain and demonstrate in various ways how handstands work: scientifically, physically and in her per…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
Tipping Point is a perfect example of how experimentation and innovation in circus can produce surprisingly powerful moments that, when shared with the audience, can provide them with a new …
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