What Role Does Art Play?
Maria Lindeman
Cirko – Center for New Circus
Since 2002, Cirko – Center for New Circus has been working to promote and develop contemporary Finnish circus. In 2011 the Cirko circus building opened in Helsinki’s Suvilahti – 1,400 square metres of office and performance space, custom made for contemporary circus.
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ESSAY: What Role Does Art Play?
”We all create our own narratives, our own paths. Professional artists have access to valuable and powerful tools, and also the freedom to choose how to use them, and to what…
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INTERVIEW: Onni Toivonen
in_between by Circo Aereo premiered last Thursday. COVID-19 brings its own challenges but in the end the premises to create a new show are mostly the same, pandemic or no pandemic.…
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Dramatic Fields – a BNCN project in development
A contemporary circus artist sits across the table from me and starts talking about one of their future creations. They don’t feel that they have that many ideas yet and they…
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INTERVIEW: Hippolyte portrays The Vigorous Character of The Librarian
Multidisciplinary artist Hippolyte plays the role of lively and comical librarian with brio, inspiring both the desire to laugh and the desire to read. We interviewed Hippolyte…
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