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Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2025

Editors: Charles Batson (Guest Editor), Karen Fricker (Guest Editor)


Editorial

CALS and CaiO
CALS and CaiO

Joe Culpepper and Melanie I Stuckey

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Mot de l'équipe rédactionnelle

CALS et CaiO
CALS et CaiO

Joe Culpepper and Melanie I Stuckey

2025-12-15 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2025

Introduction

Circus and its Others: Transgressions and Challenges 
Circus and its Others: Transgressions and Challenges 

Charles Batson, Marco Antonio Coelho Bortoleto, Karen Fricker, Julieta Infantino and Olga Lucia Sorzano

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Circus and its Others: Transgressions et défis 
Circus and its Others: Transgressions et défis 

Charles Batson, Marco Antonio Coelho Bortoleto, Karen Fricker, Julieta Infantino and Olga Lucia Sorzano

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Arts

A Gap to be Bridged: Communicating the Value in UK Circus Audience Experience
A Gap to be Bridged: Communicating the Value in UK Circus Audience Experience

Katharine Kavanagh

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Strength Artists and Female Porters: Versions, Inversions and Transversions of the Feminine in Circus
Strength Artists and Female Porters: Versions, Inversions and Transversions of the Feminine in Circus

Letícia Fonseca Braga Machado

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Circus as a pedagogy of fabulation: reflections based on the work of the A Penca collective 
Circus as a pedagogy of fabulation: reflections based on the work of the A Penca collective 

Maria Carolina Vasconcelos Oliveira

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Searching for an Escape: An Autoethnographic Study of Aesthetic Innovation in Professional Circus School
Searching for an Escape: An Autoethnographic Study of Aesthetic Innovation in Professional Circus School

Sarah Norden

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Women in Australian Contemporary Circus: Can we talk about the girl in the red dress?
Women in Australian Contemporary Circus: Can we talk about the girl in the red dress?

Kristy Seymour

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Book Reviews

Readings of Contemporary Circus, A Dramaturgy, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2024. 190pp. Franziska Trapp
Readings of Contemporary Circus, A Dramaturgy, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2024. 190pp. Franziska Trapp

Katharine Kavanagh

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Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 264 pp. Andrea Ringer.
Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 264 pp. Andrea Ringer.

Matthew Solomon

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