Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Theatre must take circus seriously
guardian.co.uk: "The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that there is a lot of circus around at the moment. NoFit State's Tabu has just finished its run at the Roundhouse, aerialists Ockham's Razor have been collaborating with Theatre-Rites at the Lyric Hammersmith in Hang On, and if you were down at Shunt earlier in the month, you would have seen emerging circus artists creating work that embraces experimental theatre and contemporary dance as much as traditional theatre skills. Meanwhile, La Clique, which relies very much on traditional circus skills, has been a hit at the Hippodrome."
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It is very true that arts like circus and puppetry have been treated as second-class citizens of the performing arts community and this needs to change. There is much to be learned by developing both circus and puppetry into arts in their own right instead of just street acts. The improvement they could make on the storytelling in theater and the way we work could be tremendous. I also think that the boundaries between the performing arts, music, theater, video, film, circus, physical theater, dance, and puppetry should be blurred much more than they are. There should be no distinction between an actor and a circus performer other than some skills and the medium in which they work.
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