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Thinking Through CircusThinking Through Circus gathers ten dialogues with and between circus artists. Each entry bears witness to how a specific circus practice is (also) a practice of critical thinking, revealing how feminism, queerness, dramaturgy, love, disobedience, posthumanism and the aesthetico-political imaginary are rethought in and through contemporary circus practice.
With this book, The Circus Dialogues wants to tend to the embodied relationships between contemporary circus and today’s world, defending circus as a field in which experimental thinking is already happening and can continue to happen. Doing so, we hope to contribute to a more sustainable circus, expanding both accountability and agency within our field.
The Circus Dialogues is a two-year artistic research project at KASK School of Arts Ghent (BE) led by Bauke Lievens (BE), Quintijn Ketels (BE), Sebastian Kann (US/DE) and accompanied by Vincent Focquet (BE). Our work delves into and makes space for encounters between theory and artistic circus practice. The Circus Dialogues aims to shine a light on the circus as a field in which experimental thinking is already happening, and we work to ensure the ongoingness of such thinking in an artistic and institutional ecology that’s long-term sustainable. We do this first and foremost through our diverse artistic practices. In parallel, we organize reading groups and collaborative gatherings for circus artists. We have also published several Open Letters to the Circus. Our activities are conceived with the intention of helping to imagine the circus field as both important and political. Most importantly, we defend circus as an open and undefinable form. [editor summary]
Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible.
The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class.
As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. [editor summary]
La formation continue pour professeurs en arts du cirque : concevoir, animer et évaluer« Cette publication est née de la volonté de la FEDEC de doter les directeurs d’école et directeurs pédagogiques d’un outil leur permettant de mettre à disposition de leurs professeurs une offre de formation et de développement professionnel en phase avec les évolutions du métier de professeur en école de cirque professionnelle et adaptable à son contexte local, national ou international.
La première partie de ce guide rappelle le contexte et les raisons de sa création. Elle donne par des clés de compréhension des enjeux liés à ce guide et précisera qui sont les principaux destinataires de cet outil. La seconde partie définit les fondements pédagogiques des sessions de formation INTENTS, véritables laboratoires d’expérimentation d’environnements de formation et qui ont vocation à servir de référence pour les formations à venir. La troisième partie, enfin, présente les propositions relatives à la conception, l’animation et l’évaluation des dispositifs de formation. Ces propositions concernent les deux grandes catégories de dispositifs (formations « intra », au sein des écoles d’une part, et formations « inter », regroupant des enseignants d’écoles différentes, à un niveau régional, national ou international d’autre part). » [résumé de l'éditeur]
Support and alignment : in search of balance : sensation, development and creation in equilibristrics : pedagogical guide"It is on the basis of field observations and concrete pedagogical issues that several texts are suggested to deepen, explain or question the notions linked with balance, while giving the floor to those who have animated or participated in the training. While this book is not meant to describe the exercises involved in these practice times, their observation has made it possible to draw threads and to propose different tools that can be transferred to the pedagogical practices of each one. The two main parts of the manual are: building balance and developing a connection with balance. More than methods that impose rules or protocols, these sensitive approaches allow, at a given moment, to formalise the practices and to spread them. For all that, they go far beyond speech and writing and find their full realisation only when the body is in motion. "
The manual makes it possible to formalise the practices of the professionals of today and to disseminate them. The proposals are transferable from one apparatus to another and from one practice to another and allow to start a transversal reflection on aerial skills or, more generally, on the way in which the circus arts are constantly facing, the stakes and difficulties of vertical work, weight and gravity. [editor summary]
Continuing training for circus arts teachers : planning, facilitating and evaluating"This publication was born out of the FEDEC's desire to equip school directors and pedagogical directors with a tool enabling them to provide their teachers an offer of training and professional development in line with the evolutions of the profession of circus arts teacher in a professional circus school and adaptable to its local, national or international context.
The first part of this guide recalls the context and the reasons for its creation: it gives keys of understanding the stakes related to this guide and specify who the main recipients of this tool are. The second part defines the educational foundations of the INTENTS training sessions, which are real experiments of training environments. They are designed to serve as reference for the training courses to come. Finally, the third part introduces the proposals regarding the planning, the facilitating and evaluation of training schemes. These proposals deal with the two main categories of training set up ("intra" formations, within schools, on the one hand, and "inter" formations, bringing together teachers from different schools, on a regional, national or international level, on the other hand)." [editor summary]
Créer, c'est exister : comment développer une pratique créative au quotidienDans ce manifeste résolument moderne et optimiste, Valérie Belmokhtar invite chacun à laisser entrer la création dans sa vie.
Que ce soit pour en faire une pratique professionnelle, pour s'y consacrer plusieurs heures par jour, ou bien pour lui donner une petite place dans sa vie, la création est une rencontre avec soi-même. Elle permet de sortir de « l'avoir » pour entrer dans « l'être », elle nous fait grandir et nous amène à plus de partage avec les autres. Un programme réjouissant et libérateur !
À partir de son expérience d'artiste et d'enseignante, l'auteure guide son lecteur sur les chemins de la création. Depuis la question de l'inspiration et de la confiance en soi jusqu'aux problématiques matérielles (installation d'un atelier, facturation de son travail...), en passant par les différentes méthodes créatives, Valérie Belmokhtar nous accompagne pas à pas tout au long de ce passionnant voyage. [résumé de l'éditeur]
The art of feminism : images that shaped the fight for equality, 1857-2017Since its inception, the women's movement has harnessed the power of the image to transmit its message. From the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, to the photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design, and publlic protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feminist aesthetic over the last 150 years. [editor summary]
Narcisse et ses avatarsEn vingt-six entrées vives et accessibles, Yves Michaud pose son regard de philosophe sur les mutations à l’œuvre dans notre société. YouTube, Narcisse, la Com’, le Design, l’Hédonisme, le Sexe ou encore le People, s’entrecroisent et se répondent dans ce petit précis philosophique ultramoderne. C’est à contrecourant des discours alarmistes que le lecteur retrouvera son quotidien, ses obsessions et névroses. Il entrera dans cet abécédaire comme on tend devant soi un miroir, ou un smartphone, et se verra délivrer des clés à la compréhension du monde d’aujourd’hui et de demain. [résumé de l'éditeur]
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