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Digitizing Route Books from the Golden Age of the American Circus

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 17, 2017February 17, 2017

Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art.

Posted inPerformance

An Acrobat Embodies the Weightless Beauty Before a Fall

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 10, 2016October 10, 2016

The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented French acrobat Yoann Bourgeois’s nouveau cirque Minuit for the first time in the United States.

Posted inPerformance

A 1944 Dalí Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 6, 2016May 9, 2016

The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.

Posted inFilm

Circus as an Act of Survival in the Arctic and Guinea

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 1, 2016December 31, 2015

The hamlet of Igloolik in far northern Canada and the city of Conakry in West Africa’s Guinea are plagued by distinct issues, one a troubling suicide rate, the other widespread poverty.

Posted inArt

Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show

by Laura C. Mallonee March 4, 2015March 3, 2015

Long before Desperate Housewives, Honey Boo Boo, or any of those viral BuzzFeed lists, there was the American side show.

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Under the Big Top with a Century of Art

by Laura C. Mallonee October 20, 2014October 20, 2014

Long before television or the internet infused daily life with spectacle, there was the circus.

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