About tricks, sensations and relationships- A collection of thoughts on performing, exhibiting skill and creating in contemporary circus.

Abstract

This is a reflection and exploration of creation as a contemporary circus artist today, from the point of view of the same (I am a rope walker). To give myself a compass during the research I have worked with a few questions: What is the function of the trick? How do I and other artist relate to our creating selves and bodies? And how can we use knowledge from other fields such as marketing- and social psychology or service side jobs, to look at our creation from another angle? These questions are explored through looking into marketing- and social psychology, the words of other creators, doing interviews and looking at the way I interact with the practice myself. What my itch is. How working with the body can change the organism.