I don’t think I have to tell you that respect for circus has been on the rise, and not only in Europe, where circus schools and shows — both classical and “nouveau” — are thriving. In the United States, we can be grateful for the success of shows in the tradition of the European one-ring spectacle, such as the Pickle Family Circus, the Big Apple Circus, Circus Flora, and the Sarasota Circus. And of course from Canada, with Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, and a national circus school, there’s more and more happening on this front.

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
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—Bill Irwin