Circus Whispers

It started with a sentence: ‘what if you loaded the floor with mats’ and it resulted in the full-length acrobatic performance MAT, about the art of falling and the beauty of failure. Because acrobats prefer to land on...

Het begon met een zin: 'wat als je de vloer zou vullen met matten' en het resulteerde in de avondvullende acrobatische voorstelling MAT, over de kunst van het vallen en de schoonheid van falen. Acrobaten landen...

Anyone who stands on stage dancing and laughing in Chile or Mexico paves the way for an audience to laugh. But how do you transmit this piece of culture to a new audience Itzel and Micaela of Insurgentes Company wonder...

The do-it-yourself mentality in circus is strong. So is that of the Maker for a Week exploring what future circus could be. Host Maaike Muis sat down with Berkey and Jakob Jacobsson. What is usually in the shadows, is...

In this episode, you find out why there are no snacks to be found in the dressing room of Michael Zandl's crew. And you'll hear why you might be hanging in Cecilia Rosso's straps. In this first open-hearted...

In Circus Whispers, host Maaike Muis gives the makers the floor, but what about the other side of the table? To make sure audiences and work come together, the programmer comes into play. He sometimes sees more than 100...

‘Sharing is Scary is a gift, a beautiful format, a concept of impact.’ Participating circus makers talk about it fondly. For the third time, makers came together to share their working practices and methodology straight...

The contrast between the directness of the Dutch and the politeness of the British was one of the many things TENT had to get used to. In three episodes, podcast maker Maaike Muis follows the international trajectory of...

"It was really hypnotic, brilliant, entertaining from start to finish." In this episode, we hear how audiences, makers and programmers experienced TENT’s Dutch circus' showcase in London. And you will also hear more...

Over the course of one year, podcast maker Maaike Muis made recordings of the international collaborations between TENT in Amsterdam and London's Jacksons Lane as part of TENT's Fast Forward trajectory. In three...

With her solo, Hanna presents something on stage that would not have been there without her. In this final episode of this Circus Whispers season, host Maaike Muis and trapeze artist Hanna de Vletter take us through the...

For Fenja Barteldres too, the perfection and simplicity of the round Cyr Wheel was irresistible. But when she broke the wheel into pieces, the round shape turned out to be just one of 47 possibilities. In this fifth...

His desire was to create an acrobatic performance with a non-acrobatic partner. But when you replace the partner with an object, you enter the realm of object manipulation. In the studio, Maaike Muis meets Trebor , the...

Most of the time, chaos reigns in her head. Susanna tries to make coffee and spin around in the Cyr-wheel at the same time. Keeping your focus is already a challenge for many people, even more so for those with...

In this third season of the podcast series Circus Whispers, we speak to new makers moving into the circus discipline. We invited Maaike Muis to combine her circus love-and-knowledge and her podcast-making itch in a...