Irene Bento, née Danner, was born in 1923. A versatile and talented circus artist, she hailed from the Lorch family, a Jewish circus family whose roots date back to the 18th century. They occasionally ran […]
The author dedicates the present life portrait to the memory of his Russian colleague Nikolai Bessonov, who suddenly and untimely passed away in November 2017 Ivanova in Uniform (Private Archive Nikolai Bessonov) Margarita Ivanova […]
With this play we want to illuminate the synergies between research and stage storytelling. The play portrays the Finnish circus community, a realm open to foreign workers, national minorities and other marginal groups in a […]
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