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.
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and...
An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement follo...
Welcome to the Cirque Du Bizarre, the fetish circus par excellence! On the program are artistic and ...
The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and F...
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...
What do Daniel Webster, Dr. Seuss, C. Everett Koop, Robert Frost and 100+ Winter Olympians have in c...
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
Cirque du Soleil presents KÀ, its new epic tale, an unprecedented theatrical production now playing ...
American’s Stone Henge is an enigmatic site located in New Hampshire. It holds secrets that are slow...
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...
Since 1993, Cirque du Soleil has produced seven original, permanent shows in Las Vegas, creating a g...