Issue 2 // Circa
Features
'Professionally Interested, Personally Bored: Diary Entries from the Festival Circa Marketplace'
One of the big names on the European circuit, Auch's Festival Circa is like no other; held in a small town in Southern France, it invites dozens of circus schools to present their work alongside a programme of professional productions, created, mostly, that year. For ten days students, circus enthusiasts and bookers alike descend on the town. John Ellingsworth is one of the incoming crowd...
'The Rule of Art (Aurélien Bory Interview)'
Amid the bustle of Festival Circa, Compagnie 111 director Aurélien Bory talks to John Ellingsworth about new work Geometrie de Caoutchouc, science fiction and the posthuman, mathematics and art, the attraction of circus, and bodies becoming space.
'Undermän (Olle Strandberg Interview)'
John Ellingsworth talks to Olle Strandberg, director of the runaway success Undermän, about autobiography, circus texts, the affinities of circus and street dance, working for Cirkus Cirkör, and having to start over after you've lost everything.
'The Hanging Sphere'
American choreographer, artist and director Kevin O'Connor on ensemble aerial, Axis Syllabus, contemporary circus in the USA, and the inspirational movement of gibbons.
'CircusFest 2012 Preview'
A look ahead to the programme of the Roundhouse's 2012 CircusFest, a biennial festival of international contemporary circus.
Reviews
'DeFracto: Circuits Fermés'
An unexpected plunge into darkness and a fractured narrative in DeFracto's Circuits Fermés.
'Mathurin Bolze and Hedi Thabet: Ali'
The circus body as apparatus in the spare collaboration Ali.
'Stumble danceCircus: Box of Frogs'
The disassociative dramaturgy of Stumble danceCircus' manic depressive Box of Frogs.
'Compagnie L’Immédiat / Camille Boitel: L’Immédiat'
A slapstick farce about the emptiness of everything — Camille Boitel / Compagnie L'Immédiat's L'Immédiat.
'Sugar Beast Circus: {Event(Dimension):}'
A trip to the museum at the end of the universe for Sugar Beast Circus' {Event(Dimension):}.
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Inside: an extensive diary account of the hurly-burly of Auch's Festival Circa; interviews with epic-level director Aurélien Bory on the art of space and his new work Géométrie de caoutchouc, and with Olle Strandberg, director of Undermän, on autobiography, circus texts and street dance; US aerialist Kevin O'Connor writing about ensemble aerial and contemporary circus in America; reviews of work by DeFracto, Stumble danceCircus, Mathurin Bolze & Hedi Thabet, Camille Boitel, and Sugar Beast Circus; and a preview of the Roundhouse's upcoming CircusFest.
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