Sara Greene is a 20-year circus industry veteran with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. As the summer moves along on Weirs Beach, Sara faces serious obstacles in fulfilling her dream, and in sharing that dream with her ailing step-mother, to whom her show was dedicated.

Cirque du Soleil presents KÀ, its new epic tale, an unprecedented theatrical production now playing ...

In 1988, the Cirque du Soleil toured the United States and set up its big top in New York City - a g...

What do Daniel Webster, Dr. Seuss, C. Everett Koop, Robert Frost and 100+ Winter Olympians have in c...

Every summer, a horde of professional Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves descend on a campsite in the N...

A young girl has already seen everything there is to see and her world has lost all meaning. Her ang...

Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish...

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explo...

Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...

Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...

The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...

In the magical world of La Nouba, dreams become reality and talent turns the ordinary into the extra...

While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen o...

The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were aba...