How Traffic Lights Became Stages: Street Performers and the Urban Circus Culture of Latin America
Original Version in Spanish below I started my journey in the circus world ten years ago. At that time, there
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Miguel Manzano is an architect, illustrator, cultural manager and trainer of social circus trainers expert in acrobatics, member of the Spanish Federation of Socio-educational Circus Schools (FEECSE); designer of circus scenographies; founder and former academic director of the Latin American School of Circus and Arts in Jalisco (ELCIRCA). Coordinator of the process of official recognition of circus training in Spain. He is currently working on the project Está Pasando, in which he is mapping circus communities in South America.
How Traffic Lights became Stages: The Rise Latin America’s Street Art Phenomenon
How Traffic Lights Became Stages – Original Version in Spanish below The Dark Side of the Heart (Eliseo Subiela) is
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Exploring Circus in South America: Community and Art in it’s Purest Form
Original Version in Spanish below It’s been almost half a year since I last wrote for you. So much has
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Está Pasando, Year One: A Journey of Lessons and of Happenings
Envisioned as a journey to document the interconnected Latin American circus network, the Está Pasando (“It’s Happening”) project’s path has
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Circo Criollo’s School
A fresh stop in Argentina led the Está Pasando project’s Miguel Manzano to a school that for four decades has
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Sise, the Juggler
All the world’s a stage… and whether performing at a local festival, in international competitions, or at a traffic light
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The New Traditional Circus of Hermanos Castro in Chiloé
A magical Chilean island gives rise to a unique company that melds the circus traditions of new and old: the
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Dimensions of Juggling in Chile – Docuseries Chapter 1: Introduction
When exploring a whole continent’s worth of circus cultures, it can be hard to keep track of the many unique
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