Tag Archives: circus

Some thoughts on circus video taxonomies

Posted on June 10, 2011 by David

Looking through the references Adrian has gathered below, and thinking about the specifics of circus and our footage, here’s a few notes… unit of circus = act (e.g. ‘tightwire’, ‘hoopdiving’) – each circus (oz) show is made up of a … Continue reading →

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About the Circus Oz Living Archive Project

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Laetitia

I wanted to put something up here about the project in general, to give new visitors to the site a bit of an overview of what we’re doing.  I remembered David Carlin’s recent article ‘Narrative of our project at a … Continue reading →

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Meet the Living Archive

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Laetitia

This is the invitation for our ‘Meet the Living Archive’ event for Circus Oz company members and current employees.  To be held in the Melba Spiegeltent in May.

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Some notes on circus research

Posted on February 16, 2011 by David

See this: a somewhat out-of-date but interestingly eclectic annotated bibliography of research books and papers on circus from an American organisation called Simply Circus. I came across it in a search because it refers to our colleague, Jane Mullett’s 2005 … Continue reading →

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