About

In 2009 Crying Out Loud introduced City Circ, a new season in which London venues brought the best and most original circus theatre to audiences across the city, throughout the summer.

From Highgate to Hammersmith, Barking to Barnet and Wimbledon to Waterloo, City Circ in 2009 presented shows for adults, children and anyone who thought they didn't like circus. Our best home-grown companies performed alongside some of Europe's most inventive artists.

Now City Circ is back with a fresh programme encompassing showcases from Circus Space students and graduates, strange experiments in the vaults under London Bridge, French travelling theatre meets Romany horse circus, the return of French pioneers Le Cirque Invisible, a festival of the best youth circuses from around the world, and workshops and taster sessions in clowning, acrobalance and flying trapeze for anyone so inspired.

Circus is changing. No longer only in tents in muddy fields, today's circus is an ambitious one - bringing together extraordinary creativity by combining astounding skill with theatre, opera, digital technologies, live music and dance.

City Circ invites you to enjoy the amazing range of work in our theatres and make London a great capital for circus.

Rachel Clare
Crying Out Loud

 

 

We are delighted to support this wonderful and eclectic season of British and international contemporary circus arts in a range of locations across London.

The development of circus artists and circus production continues to be a priority for Arts Council England. We hope that this programme will inspire, challenge and nurture even greater activity for the future and that you will be able to see or experience something new, that your understanding of circus arts will be refreshed and that City Circ will enable you to visit parts of London that may be unfamiliar to you.

Have a great summer.

Moira Sinclair, Executive Director
Arts Council, England, London

 

 

Who

The City Circ Network is an informal group of venues around Greater London who want to support and programme new contemporary circus work for theatres. Supported by the Arts Council London office the aims are to:

* Make connections between artists and venues for development, research and education.

*Explore ways for circus arts to join with dance, visual arts and spoken word to create innovative and original theatre.

* Find ways to develop audiences for all areas and ages.

* The network supports and provides information for artists and promoters who want access to the most interesting and exciting new forms circus, crossing over into dance, theatre and music.

* Crying Out Loud has a history of producing international cross-artform work. We will lead the City Circ initiative with our experience and knowledge of arts from across the globe - helping to guide the imagination of both practitioners and new audiences to realise the potential of circus theatre.

 

 

Sideshow is a magazine which has features, interviews and reviews of all things circus-related. Click for an in-depth interview with Crying Out Loud's Pam Vision and Marie Remy.

 

 

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