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.
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...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...
In the magical world of La Nouba, dreams become reality and talent turns the ordinary into the extra...
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Based on the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating Club.
This film tells the story of itinerant circus performers, cabaret acts and fairground attractions, s...
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
Every summer, a horde of professional Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves descend on a campsite in the N...
Jonas is 13 years old and his life's dream is to maintain the circus that he created in his backyard...
Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles o...
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native...
Grazing the Sky is a compelling look at the lives of trapeze artists and other circus performers. Th...
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...