Today we will be speaking with Marie-Andrée Robitaille. Marie-Andrée, originally from Québec, Canada is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. In the past, she has participated as a circus performer in multiple productions with the pioneer Swedish contemporary circus company Cirkus Cirkör. Marie-Andrée Robitaille also worked as a dancer, acrobat…

In this episode we’ll be having a round table discussion on the topic of anthropocentrism in circus. Our guests today are four circus professionals that I met at the Serious Circus Symposium in London: Josh Smith, Fiona Salisbury, Carolyn Watt and Valentina Solari. Anthropocentrism is the belief that humans are the most important thing in the unive…

Today we will be speaking with Acting for Climate, a multidisciplinary performance group aiming to inspire people to take actions towards a more sustainable future. They are currently in creation for their show “Into the Water,” a collaboration with the Hawila Project, which they will be performing and touring around the Baltic this summer on the t…

In today’s episode we will be hearing from Zelda of AcrobACTION. AcrobACTION is an artist activist group based out of Copenhagen that organizes activist happenings. In coordination with the March 15th school climate strikes they will be taking their first action to the streets to stage a plastic wedding. If you would like to learn more about what t…

In this episode we will be speaking with Matt Horton. Matt is a 2016 graduate of DOCH where he began his research on making aerial equipment out of found and recycled materials. Along with Sianna Bruce, they are now expanding this research. With the idea that ‘nothing is created or destroyed, it only changes state,’ they are creating an environment…

In this episode we will be speaking with Nettie Lane about her project Count to 12: Finding Our Way Home, an interdisciplinary performance work and community art installation/event - a response to the realities of climate change. Through visual and physical storytelling, and drawing upon theater, circus, puppetry and yarn-spinning, it is a tale of …

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