About
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The main purpose of CIRQUEON is to provide information about the Czech and European contemporary circus events, to support projects of the new circus wave emerging in the Czech Republic and to facilitate educational and training programs for children, youths and adults. Cirqueon is a member of the international CircostradaNetwork, FACE – Fresh Arts Coalition Europe and FEDEC – an international federation
of professional circus scools.
In March 2012 Cirqueon and other partners established a Czech Social and Youth Circus Network - Cirkonet.
Since January 2013 Cirqueon is a member of Caravan Circus Network dedicated to circus education and social circus.
Long-term Goals
— operation of the Cirqueon Center For Contemporary Circus, educational activities, courses
— promoting the awareness of social and youth circus in the Czech Republic, training oftutors in this field
— support of creation of new performance projects
— providing rehearsal space for artists
— training for professionals in the field of contemporary circus skills
— operation and development of a professional library and a documentation center
— research and information activities in the field of related theory
— international cooperation and its expansion
In February 2010, Cirqueon, the Center for Contemporary Circus was founded in a rented industrial space. The center houses a training space, an office and an information center.
There is a library available which collects Czech and foreign publications, articles and DVDs related to the contemporary circus. The library is registered in the SIBMAS international network of performing arts collections.
The center´s web site www.cirqueon.cz is the only news portal for information related to contemporary circus in the Czech Republic and abroad.
In 2014 Cirqueon opened 2 more training spaces. So now there are 3 halls, two of them are dedicated to the training and workshops, one is used only as a residency and creation space for Czech and international artists.
Cirqueon also created the unique program concept of international festival Cirkopolis in Prague (www.cirkopolis.cz). -
Management
There are seven people working in the organisation - one full time employee + six others part time on contract.
Apart from the administration team there are over twenty
circus tutors working for Cirqueon on contract as freelancers.
In 2017 there are over 500 children and adult regular students, over 2000 students coming for intensive workshops and hundreds of clients reached by our social circus projects and outreach work. There is also almost a hundred registered circus professionals coming to train at Cirqueon regularly.
