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It's just another industry that needs to be disrupted. I'm with you on what we think of as "the circus", but there's no reason traveling entertainment can't cha
by tclancy 9y ago
It's just another industry that needs to be disrupted. I'm with you on what we think of as "the circus", but there's no reason traveling entertainment can't change. My daughter is just old enough to be interested so we took her to the circus last year, but it was a circus put on by http://www.smirkus.org/ http://www.smirkus.org/ and it was terrific. There's no attempt at professional gloss and it's not about selling plastic crap (there's a bit but it's fundraising for the camp) ; it was just teenagers from all around the country putting on a great performance.
- smacktoward 9y agoIt's already been disrupted, the disruptor is called Cirque du Soleil.
- Arizhel 9y agoThat's not a circus, it's a dance/art show.
- dragonwriter 9y agoCircus has been an evolving art form for a long time (starting out 250 years ago as pure equestrian shows); the contemporary circus genre of which Cirque de Soleil is one of the more popular examples is a fairly new development with circus, but certainly recognizable as an example of it that has close ties to it's immediate predecessors.