Patrick at the Circus
Patrick at the Circus

Author: Geoffrey Hayes

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780786825950

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Patrick the bear watches his father's clown performance at the circus.

Patrick's Circus
Patrick's Circus

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780216893481

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Some changes are made when Mr Tripp asks Patrick to take charge of the circus.

Contemporary Circus
Contemporary Circus

Author: Katie Lavers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1317190130

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In this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory. Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Performers, and New Work. Extensively illustrated with fifty photos of Contemporary Circus productions, and extensively annotated, Contemporary Circus thematically groups and contextualises extracts of conversations to provide a sophisticated and wide-ranging study supported by critical theory. Of interest to both practitioners and scholars, Contemporary Circus uses the lens of ‘contestation,’ or calling things into question, to provide a portal into ways of seeing today’s circus performance. Conversations with: Lachlan Binns and Jascha Boyce (Gravity and Other Myths), Tilde Björfors (Cirkus Cirkör), Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers (Hot Brown Honey), Shana Carroll (The 7 Fingers), David Clarkson (Stalker), Philippe Decouflé (Compagnie DCA), Fez Faanana (Briefs), Mike Finch (Circus Oz), Daniele Finzi Pasca (Compagnia Finzi Pasca), Sean Gandini (Gandini Juggling), Firenza Guidi (ElanFrantoio, NoFit State Circus), Jo Lancaster and Simon Yates (Acrobat), Johann Le Guillerm (Cirque Ici), Yaron Lifschitz (Circa), Chelsea McGuffin (Company 2), Phia Ménard (Compagnie Non Nova), Jennifer Miller (Circus Amok), Adrien Mondot (Compagnie Adrien M and Claire B), Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch (Ockham’s Razor), Philippe Petit (high wire artist), and Elizabeth Streb (STREB EXTREME ACTION).

Cirque Global
Cirque Global

Author: Louis Patrick Leroux

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0773598707

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With a billion-dollar industry centred in Montreal, the province of Quebec has established itself as a major hub for contemporary circus. Cirque du Soleil has a global presence, and troupes such as Cirque Éloize and 7 doigts de la main are state-of-the-art innovators. The National Circus School of Montreal - the only state-funded elite training facility in North America - is an influential leader in artistry and technique. Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil’s Cirque du Monde supports arts for social change on many continents and is renowned for its social-circus training and research. Cirque Global is the first book-length study of this new variety of circus and its international impact. The contributors offer critical perspectives on this rapidly developing art form and its aesthetics, ethics, business practices, pedagogical implications, and discursive significations. Essays explore creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural forces that are shaping Quebec’s dynamic nouveau cirque. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from circus performances, the volume showcases Quebec circus’s hybrid forms, which have merged the ethos and aesthetics of European circuses with American commercial and industrial creativity. Cirque Global is the definitive study of the phenomenon of Quebec circus and is an important model for future research on contemporary circus.

360° Circus
360° Circus

Author: Franziska Trapp

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1000889343

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This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDown—Circus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.

Anomalies
Anomalies

Author: Catherine E Kovach

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1329153626

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Growing up in a world where magic is real and almost everyone has it on some level, Faith had gotten used to being one of the unfortunate ones: a person with no magic at all. Prepared to go the rest of her life flying under the radar of the popular "mages", people so attuned to magic that they can actually control it, her life is turned upside down when two of the most popular mages in school disappear shortly after meeting her with a strange offer she doesn't understand. Driven by a sense of responsibility, Faith teams up with a group of misfits and faces vampires, faeries, and demons in order to find the missing mages and learn a lot about herself.

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader

Author: Peta Tait

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 1000156052

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The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus.