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.

From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

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

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...

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

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...

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

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

Welcome to Cirque du Soleil BAZZAR, an eclectic lab of infinite creativity where a joyful troupe of ...

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

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

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

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

Reconciliation becomes possible between a gay circus trainer and his mom when he and his husband ado...

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