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Conversations at the intersection of social and environmental justice and the circus arts.

Changing the World and Other Circus Related Things Circus Action Network

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Conversations at the intersection of social and environmental justice and the circus arts.

    Ep.7 Marie-Andrée Robitaille

    Ep.7 Marie-Andrée Robitaille

    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, and stuntwomen in various other International projects and as a talent scout with the casting team at Cirque du Soleil.
    For the last nine years, Marie-Andrée has been assistant professor of circus and the head of the Bachelor program in Circus at the School of Dance and Circus (DOCH) at Stockholm University of the Arts (Uniarts). She is the initiator of the Stockholm-based international Nordic Women in Circus Network and the founder of Gynoïdes Project, an undertaking which aims to examine the roles and representations of women in circus arts. She is the artistic director of CirkusPerspectiv whose latest work and activities include: Gynoïdes Circus Female intelligentsia, acclaimed in 2016 at Orionteatern, one of the most avant-garde stages in Sweden; Music and Circus in Dialogue, a circus performance inspired by the experimental approaches and ideas of the Bauhaus, a project of Circus Art Gallery Space in Stockholm; and the production and curation of 5 editions of the Women in Circus Consortium. At Uniarts she has conducted the research projects Women in Circus, Sound of Circus and is currently conducting Hidden Circus which focus on alternative modes of composition in circus art. From January 2019, Marie-Andrée Robitaille is a Ph.D. candidate in performative and mediated practices with a specialization in Circus Choreography at Uniarts. https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/marie-andree-robitaille
    Nordic Women in Circus Network
    The Women In Circus Network aims to:
    -Unite the creative forces of women in circus
    -Increase visibility of circus works directed and or performed by women
    -Provoke dialogues on the topic of gender and norm-creativity in circus arts
    -Contribute to the development of feminist strategies in the field of circus
    -Share and transfer knowledge from existing feminist practice and research.
    -Strengthen and develop collaborations in relation to the agency of women in circus

    The network currently has 219 members from 23 different countries.
    The organizational partners are Cirkus Cirkör from Sweden, Sirkus info from Finland, Dynamo Working space for circus and performing arts from Denmark and CirkusPerspektiv from Sweden. The network is funded by the Opstart program of Nordic Culture fund and by short-term network program at Nordic Culture Point. This funding is administrated by CirkusPerspektiv.


    It's our diversity united that makes us stronger!
    Click HERE to join the network and get involved.

    Join the facebook group HERE

    Any additional information, request for interviews or proposal for partnerships can be submitted to info@cirkusperspektiv.se

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    Next Women in Circus Consortium
    August 8th and 9th in cooperation with Dynamo Workspace for Circus and Performing Arts, Odense, Danemark
    November 1st-2nd 2019, Helsinki, Finland!
    Check out the facebook group for more info!
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    Ep.6 Anthropocentrism in Circus

    Ep.6 Anthropocentrism in Circus

    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 universe. In her Open Letters to the Circus, Bauke Lievens describes the world view that circus often puts forth as anthropocentric — human dominating over nature. In this episode we discuss this concept and what it might look like to try and make circus that puts forth a different worldview.

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    Resources mentioned in the podcast:

    Object Oriented Ontology

    The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall

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    This podcast is an initiative of the Circus Action Network.

    Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/circusactionnetwork/

    Check out our website: https://circusactionnetwork.wixsite.com/home

    Write to us: circus.action.network@gmail.com

    Ep.5 Acting for Climate

    Ep.5 Acting for Climate

    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 two-masted wooden sailboat Hawila. To find out more about Acting for Climate, check out their facebook page and website below.
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    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/actingforclimate/
    Website: https://www.actingforclimate.com/
    Hawila project: https://www.hawilaproject.org/
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    This podcast is an initiative of the Circus Action Network.
    Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/circusactionnetwork/
    Write to us: circus.action.network@gmail.com

    Ep.4 Zelda - AcrobACTION

    Ep.4 Zelda - AcrobACTION

    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 they do or are interested in organizing a coordinated action you can get in touch with them through their facebook page below.
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    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AcrobACTION/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acrobaction/

    Ep.3 Matt Horton - Recycled Rope

    Ep.3 Matt Horton - Recycled Rope

    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 that is non-disposable, but always re-invented and ultimately sustainable. With global warming as a thematic center piece, they aim to highlight themes of addiction, materialism, fear and risk.

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    If you would like to learn more about his work and future projects, you can get in touch with Matt at mattsjhorton@gmail.com.

    Ep2. Nettie Lane - Count to Twelve

    Ep2. Nettie Lane - Count to Twelve

    In this episode we will be speaking with circus artist and teacher Nettie Lane about her creative process with 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 being lost and finding one's way Home.

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