360° Circus

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.

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Dr. Franziska Trapp is a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Riikka Juutinen is a Finnish Master of Social Sciences from the University of Tampere with Social Anthropology as her major subject. She is interested in questions of transnationalism and mobility, and in her master's thesis, she focused on themes about circus and mobility studies. Juutinen completed an internship at the international conference UpSideDown-Circus at Zirkus | Wissenschaft research project in 2017. Since then her area of work has been crisis work, child protection and work with people with substance issues.

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Welcome to the Wonderland of Contemporary Circus

Franziska Trapp

Part I: Circus Meaning

Chapter 1. Circus Does Not Exist

Jean-Michel Guy

Chapter 2. "La Putyka" by Cirk La Putyka: A Glimpse at Czech Contemporary Circus

Veronika tefanová

Part II: Circus Practice

Chapter 3. On Mutations of Forms, Style, and Meaning: From a Traditional to a Contemporary Trapeze Act

Sandy Sun

Chapter 4. Articulating Hand-Balancing: Finding Space for Critical Self-Transformation

Camilla Damkjaer

Chapter 5. Extreme Symbiosis

Louise Von Euler Bjurholm and Henrik Agger

Chapter 6. Hamlet: To Have Written or Not to Have Written for the Tightwire

Louis Patrick Leroux

Chapter 7. Verticality, Gravity, Sense of Balance. Transmitting a Technique, Conveying a Sensation: Practices and Discourses of Circus Arts Teachers

Agathe Dumont

Chapter 8. Reading Circus. Dramaturgy on the Border of Art and Academia

Franziska Trapp

Chapter 9. UpSideDown Circus and Space

Die Zeichner. Andreas Gärtner

Part III: Circus Culture

Chapter 10. Circus Between Technique and Technology: Heideggerian "Enframing" and the Contested Space of Free Expression

Sebastian Kann

Chapter 11. Chaplin, Brecht, Fo: Toward a Concept of Epic Clowning

Gaia Vimercati

Chapter 12. To Walk the Tightwire

Ante Ursic

Chapter 13. The Spatiality of Australian Contemporary Circus

Kristy Seymour

Chapter 14. Cheerful, Nostalgic, Melancholic: Mood in Circus

Peta Tait

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