Thank you to everyone who presented and attended. We hope everyone had fruitful discussions that lead to inspiring projects in the future! #CircusAndBeyond#Circus250
Now we hear about 'The Visual Language of Circus Posters' from @rosegridneff, more usually found in conferences about graphic design, but talking today about a collection of circus ephemera inherited from grandparents - grandad ran away with a Russian circus!
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Rebecca Truman and @juliacalver's #Cupola project uses @TeresaAmabile's model of Creativity to map the work of #SkinningTheCat. 'Is that what we were doing? You make it sound so clever' Becky on her experience of collaborating with an academic
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Now @rosiekelly321 gives a performance lecture on 'The Cult & Concepts of #Juggling', starting with the basic cascade pattern. Spoiler: using fire or knives DOESN'T make juggling harder! #CircusAndBeyond
The heteronormitivity of the circus and gay representations as explored by Eric McGill now feat. some very cute pics of him as a young circus enthusiast #CircusAndBeyond
Kate Holmes tells us how women aerialists defied conventional expectations of their gender and empowered themselves through their feats #CircusAndBeyond#womeninhistory
FYI - today's conference is digitally interactive! As well as the #LiveStream, anyone who messages comments or feedback will have their points fed into the discussion in the room, so do join in! #CircusAndBeyond
Intro from @sabine_hanke_: ''Rethinking the History of Popular Entertainment' through the lens of circus. Focus will be on influence of C19th & 20th practice on current understanding and activity #CircusAndBeyond
Really excited to have Kate @CircusDiaries live tweeting the event for us today. Follow her for live updates throughout the day and join in with #circusandbeyond!
We're putting together the final touches to our conference and are super excited to meet everyone on Friday! If you can't make it we'll be live streaming it too and you can find the link here: https://t.co/LD7d4Rs4RZ #circusandbeyond#circus250