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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

Cirque du Soleil presents The Mystery of Mystère, a captivating documentary that explores how arts a...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil
A clown recalls the days when he first joined the Cole Brothers circus and discusses how the Greates...

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

Eighteen-year-old Aaliyah flies on aerial silks. Her 16-year-old cousin Bre twirls on hoops. They dr...

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

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

A story of the world's first female tiger trainer who claimed her love for her tigers was so great s...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

Once upon a time, a door opened and two worlds collided. Dreams clashed with reality. The mundane mi...

Cirque du Soleil presents KÀ, its new epic tale, an unprecedented theatrical production now playing ...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...