Veronika Štefanová
The Otherness of Czech Contemporary Circus
Franziska Trapp
Traditional Circus: Is it the Other of Contemporary Circus?
Olga Lucia Sorzano
Modern Circus: The Origins of Circus or the Eurocentric Construction of the Form?
Joe Culpepper
Inside the Black Tent: Magic as Other in the Circus Arts
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Chaired by Martin Pšenička
Kate Holmes
Fluid Circus Nationalities: Moving Female Bodies, Good Citizenship and Commercial Success
Susann Lewerenz
Between ‘Africa’ and ‘America’: Performance Identities of an Afro-German Circus Family (1909–54)
Stav Meishar
Forgotten Legacies for Present-Day Audiences: Circus Jews under National Socialism
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Chaired by Ante Ursic
Agathe Dumont
Artist, Author, Entrepreneur: Multiple Identities for Emergent Contemporary Circus Artists in Europe
Michelle Man
Modes of Hospitality as a Methodology for Devising Contemporary Circus Performance
Katharine Kavanagh
Overcoming Academic Otherness: Experiments in Integration”
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Chaired by Veronika Štefanová
Melissa Lima Caminha
Female Monster Clown: Undoing the Human in Clownery through Envisioning Feminist Figurations and Clowntacts
Ayal Prouser
Under the Bi(G) Top
Kelly Richmond
Aroused by Failure: The Queer Affects and Socialities of Il n’est pas encore minuit
Stevi Costa
Neo-Sideshow and the Other: The Limits of Freaktopia
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Chaired by Charles R. Batson
Cyril Thomas
Agathe Dumont
Vincent Grosstephan
Marion Guyez
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Chaired by Cyril Thomas
Melmun Bajarchuu
Circus as a Practice of Resist_ing
Sebastian Kann
Circus as a Practice of Ecological Thinking: How to Give the Others of Circus Practice Space to Come to Expression?
Olivier Sibai and Marius Luedicke
How to Be a Marginal Consumer: An Exploration of the Amateur Practice of Circus”
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Chaired by Sylvain Lavoie
Ian Jagel
Social Circus: Specters, Spectacle, Methexis
Iliaria Bessone and Maria Teresa Cesaroni
Engaging with Gender and Sexuality in Social Circus Trainings for Trainers
Mathilde Perallat
Montreal Social Circus as an Alternative Circus Stage: The Example of Le Cabaret du corps Dada
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Chaired by Olga Sorzano
Tina Carter
Rolling Into Flight – Dis-Ing Up Aerial!
Alisan Funk
Hidden and Null Curriculum in Circus Education: Avoidance of Otherness in Pursuit of Fine Arts Status
Erin Ball and Keren Zaiontz
Against Ableist Logics: The Adaptive Body in Contemporary Circus Arts
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Chaired by Kristy Seymour
Participants will be invited to create alliances and propose actions around four areas of particular interest to women in circus: visibility, working conditions, modification of gender norms, and inclusivity (across a wide spectrum of identity points). Everyone at the conference is welcome to this working session.
Marie-Andrée Robitaille
School of Dance and Circus (DOCH), Stockholm University for the Arts (UNIARTS)
Tracy Zhang
Michael Eigtved
The Dream of Crossing Over: Circus, Artists and Potential Transcendence
Loes van Schaijk
Contemporary Circus Music and the Conundrum of the Popular
Hayley Malouin
We Are Visceral, We Are Revolting: Receiving a Circassian Pussy Riot
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Chaired by Franziska Trapp
Magali Sizorn
The Aesthetics of an Ethics: For a Sociology of Attachments to the Circus
Jessica Kendall
Noises, Parties, and Bad Ghosts: African Artists and German Technicians Together on an ‘African’-Themed Circus Tour in Europe
Camilla Löf
On Not Being ‘the Refugee’: Fabrications of Childhood and through Social Circus
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Chaired by Tina Carter
Kristy Seymour
Women in Australian Contemporary Circus: Can We Talk about the Girl in the Red dress?
Marion Guyez
Women Performing Together in Acrobatics
Martha Harrison
Gender in Contemporary Circus: A Case Study
Jamey Green
Gender and Personal Empowerment through Pole Dance
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Chaired by Alisan Funk
Rosa Lopes Dias
The Producer – An Other in the World of Contemporary Circus
Marie-Eve Skelling Desmeules
Studying Professional Training Experiences Related to the ‘Fleshy Body’ in Circus Context
Doyle Ott
Aging Circus Bodies
Rodney Huey
Creating ‘Otherness’ Through Pedagogy? The Case of Clown College
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Chaired by Michael Eigtved
Jonas Eklund
A Culturally Appropriate (Re)presentation of the ‘Other’? Creating Images of Us and Them in Cirkus Cirkör’s Trilogy on Migration
Sylvain Lavoie
Animal Beings: Cirque du Soleil’s Special Bodies
Ante Ursić
Approaching Limitrophy: Bestialities in Baro d’Evel Cirk’s Bestias
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Chaired by Joe Culpepper
Simone O’Brien
Cirque du Coraki: a social circus project about a small town & the world’s greatest tight wire walker Con Colleano – an Australian First Nation’s man
Stephen Cadwell
Identify, Embrace, Adapt: Trusting the Other in Youth and Social Circus
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Chaired by Hayley Malouin