CNA: It’s been a tough year for the performing arts in most countries, with virus lockdowns canceling shows and shuttering venues.
But the world's top circus festival has found a way to flourish between the cracks in the rules — even without the huge crowds that would normally have attended.
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I was really impacted by this quote: “The management of this crisis has had an extremely violent impact on poets, artists, people who dedicate their lives to culture in general...It has categorized what is considered essential or non-essential. We are convinced that poetry is essential to live.” And it made me think how unfair it was to shut down the entertainment industry the way they did. Looking back we could have handled thing differently. To me it doesn’t make sense why everyone was allowed to pack into grocery stores but reduced capacity’s and socially distanced shows weren’t acceptable. I mean if you think about a grocery store, everyone is touching things and going every which way but at a performance everyone could be specked 6 feet apart and everyone is looking forward not talking or touching anything. Not withstanding the performers themselves being out of work, art is the reason to be alive and it’s essential to be happy.
I appreciate how most of the productions are finding their own ways to combat the limitations generated along with COVID, either through modifying the form of presentation or the form of audience. For this article, I wish they had provided more information about how they managed to seat the audience or how they actually conducted the performances in detail instead of just stating their reduced number. I was trying to get a ticket for musical last week, and I noticed that they had reduced the number of audience into half (so that each person could sit on every other seats) for the performance. In retrospect, at least in my country, places that has caused wider spread of the virus are mostly churches, clubs, and every other places that has nothing to do with theatrical performances, and I tend to get upset as I feel like theaters are almost victims for getting unfair restrictions by others’ fault.
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