Circadium School of Contemporary Circus will ring in the winter holidays with two unique events, both taking place on Saturday, December 14. America's only full-time accredited school dedicated to ...

This year marks 250 years since the start of modern circus. It was in 1768 that Philip Astley began his circus entertainment in Waterloo in London. To celebrate, this new feature series has circus ...

Though the first modern circus was born in 1770s England, the tented attractions didn’t become an American tradition until around the mid-to-late-1800s. The traveling circus graced wide swaths of the ...

Known for their modern circus incorporating mechanical marvels, Cirque Mechanics introduces the wildly astonishing Pedal Punk, set in a Steampunk-inspired world where cycling provides wondrous escape ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. The modern circus has been a form of public ...

This is a refreshingly gender-balanced work, where women lift men as much as the other way around, and in fact some of the most incredible moments are by females. They build human totem poles, ...