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.
Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature ci...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
Grazing the Sky is a compelling look at the lives of trapeze artists and other circus performers. Th...
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...
In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Math...
From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...
While out walking his dog, Jason Morse had a visual sighting of a large bipedal creature in the New ...
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
Welcome to the Cirque Du Bizarre, the fetish circus par excellence! On the program are artistic and ...
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
Nearly everybody has been to the circus to laugh about clowns, be afraid of the lions and to eat sug...
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spi...
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...
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing C...
Amidst the approaching colorful circus performance, we looked underneath the big top to meet circus ...