Category: Contemporary Circus

• Magnifica Humans 2.0

  

  To Lifschitz’s and all contemporary circus artists’ credit — the obsessive Wagner might have wanted Gesamtkunstwerk for his operas, but even he forgot to include the circus acts! 

  S.E. Barcus

  Contemporary Circus, Dance, Performing Arts

  2026, AI, Charleston, Circa, Contemporary Circus, Humans, Humans 2.0, Magnifica Humanitas, robots, Spoleto

• Vive Lapage! Vive Le FLIP! Vive Le Cirque!

  

  OK, “contemporary circus” – you had my curiosity, but now … you have my attention. … Combine the cirque nouveau of FLIP with the theater of Ex Machina, and you now have a dovetailing of creative energy that blends into one of the most humorous and entertaining contemporary circus experiences I’ve ever had, with SLAM!,…

  S.E. Barcus

  Contemporary Circus, Performing Arts, Theater

  cirque nouveau, Contemporary Circus, Ex Machina, FLIP, Meany, SLAM, wrestling

• Passengers, on Earth

  

  Soon, after the wonderful spinning rope work by Eduardo de Azevedo Grillo, I briefly thought the story might revolve around two lone souls who were becoming lovers, our trapeze artist and our rope artist.  But no, it is another vignette, another brief chance moment in ‘time’ — with no ‘main character,’ no real ‘destination’, no…

  S.E. Barcus

  Contemporary Circus, Performing Arts, Theater

  Contemporary Circus, Passengers, Seattle Rep, Shana Carroll, the 7 fingers