Resources and networks
CIRCa collaborates with a lot of other entities and networks beyond the French borders. Are you looking for educational documentation? For the contact details of a company? Do you want to see an extract of a show? Do you want to know more about professional networks? Are you looking for a circus school? Do you want to read about previous European projects? The information is this way!
Circus arts resources
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We own documentary resources on circus arts : reference works, posters of the previous Festivals of Contemporary Circus, posters of many shows, as well as videos of the shows performed at the last CIRCa festivals made by the audiovisual unit of the CNAC (national centre for circus arts). For any consultation or loan, please contact us +33562616581. |
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Library of Grand Auch The library owns a collection about circus (documentary or educational works, books for young readers…). The catalogue is available online (write “cirque” on the search page or the website). |
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Canopé Auch The Centre Départemental de Documentation Pédagogique du Gers (educational documentation centre of Gers County) provides teachers and trainers with documentary resources about circus arts. |
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HorsLesMurs HorsLesMurs is the National Information Centre for Street Arts and Circus Arts and aims to find connections between these specific contemporary artistic fields and important societal issues.
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rueetcirque.fr HorsLesMurs proposes a catalogue of documentary resources on street and circus arts online. It holds thousands of documents: the professional directory of HorsLesMurs, companies' contacts, details of venues or places for residences, shows information, photos, videos, articles, records. |
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Resource Centre of the National Centre for Circus Arts (CNAC) The CNAC holds a rich collection works about circus and performing arts. Associated with the Bibliothèque nationale de France / BnF (French National Library), the centre is dedicated to students, trainees, researchers and the wider public. It also aims to collaborate with foreign high schools. |
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CNAC TV The Resource Centre of the Centre National des Arts du Cirque (National Centre for Circus Arts) has an audio-visual production unit that develops an online collection of more than 300 videos (end of term shows, students works, shows performed at the festivals of CIRCa, Furies, CircusNext...) |
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En Scènes – performing arts on video A selection of shows' extracts sorted by topics like “circus” or “clown” proposed by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel. |
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Study of circus arts in Midi-Pyrénées - December 2013 At the Territoires de Cirque's instigation, this study was conducted from June to December 2013 after an initial work done between February and May 2012. Study of circus in MP |
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Espaces chapiteaux This online collaborative platform is proposed by the GNAC (national group for circus arts), in collaboration with the CITI (International Centre of Travelling Theatres). |
Professional networks
European project : PYRENART
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Nine cultural establishments on both sides of the Pyrenees have joined forces to design PYRENART a project selected within the framework of the European program Interreg Poctefa (2014-2020), whose ambition is to develop and strengthen internationally the performing arts sector of the Pyrenean cross-border area. |
This project of nearly 2 million euros is co-financed by the European Union under the FEDER (European Fund for Economic and Regional Development) for 1.3 million euros until 2020, and brings together:
Partners and co-financers :
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Previous european projects
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The “[CIRCUS] WORK AHEAD!” project aimed to develop its activities at the meeting point between training and distribution networks, for the benefit of young circus artists seeking to embrace a European wide career. In order to ensure the development of its aims, “[CIRCUS] WORK AHEAD!” intended to focus on the following four objectives:
Activities Four distinct activities have been implemented by the project partners: 1/ master classes : See the video of the Master class hosted by CIRCa in October 2014. 2/an international distribution initiative focused on artists who experience difficulties in breaking through into an experienced professionalism;. 3/ a local decentralised programming initiative aimed at conquering new territories for the circus arts and calling on local government authorities; 4/ the development of a documented and analytical axis on the development on contemporary circus audiences in relation to given areas. Download the survey on circus audiences: "Circus audiences on the scale of 4 European territories" by Emilie Salaméro - Lecturer à l'Université de Poitiers (in French) |
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Initiated by Circuscentrum (Flemish centre for circus arts), the European project UNPACK THE ARTS welcomed across all media, journalists, critics and chief editors to offer them within the frame of festivals, opportunities to reflect on ways of developing a critical discourse around circus arts, to even query the role played by critics, and to broaden their knowledge. |
This programme constituted of 12 residencies organised within 10 European festivals, over a two-year period (August 2012 to February 2014). What for ?
Residencies At the end of the residencies, each participant wrote 1 article (2,000 words) in their native language. These texts have been collected, translated in English and turned into an online, multilingual publication, with each article appearing both in its original language and an English translation. The co-organisers |