CIRCUS
Dance / Circus: FLIP Fabrique in Blizzard at The Quick
Quick Center for the Arts 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldDo you love the feeling of shaking a snow globe and watching as everything goes from chaos to falling perfectly in place? With Blizzard, which celebrated its 200th performance in 2023, FLIP Fabrique takes you on a crazy, poetic, and gentle winter journey, and invites you to lose yourself in a moment of complete wonder. With performers at […]
The 7 Fingers: Duel Reality: Multimedia Performance at University Theater
University Theater 222 York Street, New HavenAll's fair in love and war. You won't want to miss this exhilarating performance with Montreal's renowned arts collective, the 7 Fingers. In "Duel Reality" they combine acrobatics, theater, dance, multimedia, music, and storytelling, and present human stories with superhuman skills. Stripping down circus spectacle to its thrilling essence, they breathe new life into Shakespeare's […]
Eco Circus Camp in East Haddam
The Sanctuary 59 Bogel Road, East HaddamFirst Session: Jul 8th - Jul 19th Mon-Fri 9 AM to 3 PM Ages 6-12 Back by popular demand! Campers will experience Embodied play connecting bodies + minds in harmony with relationships + the environment. Circus arts, partnership yoga, ecological lessons, Connection to Nature. Goats. For more information Tuition: $750 per session / Scholarships available. […]
Circus Smirkus at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center
Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center 22 Iron Horse Blvd, Simsbury4 Shows July 30-2:00 PM 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM 9:00 PM July 31-1:00 PM 3:00 PM & 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Step into a world of whimsy and wonder, as Circus Smirkus celebrates playfulness, discovery, and childlike curiosity with the 2024 Big Top Tour: The Imaginarium. A magical toy shop comes to life with tumbling teddy bears, high-flying marionettes, and […]
36th Annual Children’s Circus with Oddfellows Playhouse in Middletown
Macdonough Elementary School 66 Spring St., MiddletownThe Children’s Circus is a unique blend of traditional summer camp with an immersive arts performance-based enrichment program, serving kids’ age 5 – 15 yrs. old. KIDS ARTS is sponsored in part by the City of Middletown, and presented by Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater. Please visit their website here for more information about their calendar year programming. […]
Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Barnum Museum
Barnum Museum 820 Main St, BridgeportA tornado closed the doors of the Barnum Museum in 2010. Since then, extensive repair and reconstruction have taken place at the Nationally Registered landmark. Now, for the first time a select number of visitors will be able to participate in an exclusive hard-hat tour to see the ongoing reimagining of the Barnum. This one-time tour has […]
The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus at the Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street, HartfordThe company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show The company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. The show will draw on traditional circus […]
Dance / Circus: Machine de Cirque: Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight at The Quick
Quick Center for the Arts 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldA ghost light, the single bulb that stays illuminated when a theater is unoccupied, carries the weight of practicality, tradition, and superstition. Machine de Cirque’s Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight makes visible what is invisible. In their telling of the story, the theater ghosts are drawn to the light. As the spirits recall the energy of […]
Yuletide Factory Cirque Mechanics at the New Victory Theater in New York
The New Victory Theater 209 W 42nd Street, NYCNovember 23 – December 29, 2024 Fill your hearts with circus cheer—the merry daredevils of Cirque Mechanics (Zephyr, 2023) are back with an industrial-strength spectacular for you and your kin. Sparkling with holiday spirit, the ever energetic ensemble of acrobats transforms a drab assembly plant into a holly jolly Yuletide Factory! From the wonder of the […]
Holiday Cirque! Sugar Plum Fantasy at the Bushnell Theater
Bushnell Theater 166 Capitol Ave, HartfordAll new for 2024, the Hartford Symphony’s traditional Holiday Cirque! concert is reimagined as Holiday Cirque! Sugar Plum Fantasy! Experience Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker like never before with Troupe Vertigo’s 2024 version, featuring beloved scenes such as the enchanting “Waltz of the Flowers,” the festive “March,” and the dazzling “Pas de Deux.” The performance brings to life the magic […]
MOMIX: Alice at The Schubert in New Haven
Shubert Theater 247 College Street, New HavenTravel down the rabbit hole MOMIX-style with Moses Pendleton's newest creation, ALICE, inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Seamlessly blending illusion, acrobatics, magic, and whimsy, MOMIX sends audiences flying down the rabbit hole in Moses Pendleton’s newest creation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland. Join this dazzling company on a mind-bending adventure, as Alice […]