CircusInfo: Prominent circus development centre in Helsinki gains a new director – An interview with Cirko’s Jarkko Lehmus
Cirko – Center for New Circus, founded in 2002, is a prominent contemporary circus venue and artistic development centre in Finland. One of the key actors in the field, they promote artistic work, advance artistic thinking, and provide a stage for the…
Interview: Be Flat
Follow me is a performance by two Belgian urban acrobats, Ward Mortier and Thomas Decaesstecker, which invites audience to participate in a walk full of parkour and street acrobatics. Artists answered to some questions about their backgrounds and how they…
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. We interviewed circus artist Onni Toivonen about the creation of in_between…
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 about reading, books and the show. What is “The Librarian’’ about ?The…
INTERVIEW: John-Paul Zaccarini’s fight against homophobia and racism
John-Paul Zaccarini is a dragademic, a professor of circus and a hip-hop drama queen. Zaccarini is drawing from his own experiences in the intersection of different identities and is trying to make the circus field more inclusive. We interviewed Zaccarini…