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CircusFest 2014

January 2018

  • A Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey publicity poster circa 1950

    Chainsaw juggling, human cannonballs and Coco the Clown! The astounding 250-year story of circus

    When was the first trapeze performance? Who launched ‘the greatest show on Earth’? And which showman was celebrated in song by the Beatles? Here’s a history of circus in 25 moments

April 2014

  • Standing tall … Alice Ellerby, Jolene O'Sullivan and Jess McKerlie in Puffball at the Roundhouse, Lo

    Puffball review – an LGBTQ circus brimming with love

  • ‘Dazzling’: professional circus performers mingle with workshop members in Puffball.

    Puffball review – intriguing, unsettling and joyful

  • The Gandini Juggling troupe in action.

    Theatre blog
    The art of juggling: four classic YouTube videos

  • Graeae Theatre Company. "Belonging". Dress rehearsal.

    Belonging review – 'Pioneering use of spoken, physical and sign language'

  • She Would Walk the Sky – review: 'Not just high-flown, but overblown'

  • Puffball: sexuality under circus's big top

  • Naked juggling and hair-hanging: CircusFest 2014 - in pictures

March 2014

  • La Meute

    La Meute review – 'family-friendly acrobatic tomfoolery'

  • Capilotractees

    Fringe circus: the art of hair-hanging

  • Clowns and Queens

    Cløwns and Queens review – 'A constantly shifting dance of desire'

  • Gandini's Cløwns & Queens

    CircusFest: meet the jugglers taking the artform to dizzy heights

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