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Midsummer Madness - 6th Circus Space Festival -
Sponsored by UBS Investment Bank

Sunday 22 June 2003 was Family Day at The Circus Space with over 500 people attending Midsummer Madness. Festival goers were able to participate in drop-in workshops in Flying Trapeze, Juggling, Tightwire, Stilts and Unicycle. Free balloons, face painting and entertainment were also on offer throughout the day - with performances from our local youth circus, Goronwy Thom, Gandini Juggling, The Tim Bat Trick Show, Klezmer Band 'The Matzo Boys' and The London Swing Dance Society. Walkabout entertainers 'The Other Half' and 'Stickleback Plasticus' ensured that the humour flowed throughout the day. In the evening The Circus Space Cabaret attracted over 200 people.

Photo credit for all photos below: Karen Wilkinson

Drop in Juggle

Face Painting

Goronwy Thom

Other Half Productions

Stilts

Tightwire

The Tim Bat Trick Show

Stickleback Plasticus

The Matzo Boys

THE CIRCUS SPACE ON THE CIRCUS FESTIVAL MAP

The Circus Space is delighted at the involvement its former students are having this year in the international circus competitions and festivals.

Collette Morrow studied at The Circus Space from 1998 to 1999 prior to selection for the Millennium Dome show. Currently a cast member of Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, Collette, with Igor Arefiev, performed a Pas de Deux aerial act in the 27th Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo, 16 - 23 January 2003 (http://ficmc.free.fr/3COM.htm). The act won the Prix télé Monte-Carlo.

Luke Wilson and Ilka Licht, LukaLuka, who studied at The Circus Space from 1995 to 1997, were invited to perform their juggling act at the 24th Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris, 30 Jan - 4 Feb 2003 (http://www.circonautes.com/). Taking part was special for them, but achieving a flawless routine on the Saturday in front of their idol Francis Brunn was the real highlight. Fittingly for an act that is very much at home on the Variete circuit, they won the Special Prize of the Moulin Rouge.

Aaron Walker (1999 to 2001) and Ian Marchant (1997 to 1999) have been selected to take part in Bröderna Bronetts cirkusfestival Circo Massimo from 6-17 February in Sweden (http://www.circomassimo.com).

Ian then goes on to compete in the 7th Krystallpalast Variete competition in Leipzig on 23rd February 2003 (http://www.krystallpalastvariete.de). The past two competitions were won by former Circus Space students, LukaLuka in 2001 and Girisho Gordon in 2002.

Also competing this year in the Krystallpalast will be Kicking the Moon (Jerwood Circus Award winners 2001). Kicking the Moon are Ashley Carr, Magali Bancel and Max Haverkamp who all studied at The Circus Space from 1999 to 2001.

Max Haverkamp (1999 to 2001) will then be performing his ball juggling act in competition at La Piste aux Espoirs in Tournai, Belgium from 7 to 9 March 2003 (www.lapisteauxespoirs.com/) .

Two of our most recent graduates, Gemma Mawson and Amber Noble (both 2000 to 2002), will be performing their balancing act in the all-female Circus Princessan festival in Stockholm from 5 to 25 May (http://www.bronett.se/sessan/main.html).

Images:Glen Stewart

The Circus Space, based in London, offers the only Circus degree in the UK; the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice - Circus, in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama and validated by the OUVS. It also has a Artist & Company Development Centre , its own Springboard season of new Circus in April and May, Youth Circuses and an adult class programme.

The Circus Space has won a 2002 Arts and Business Award 2002 in the 'Arts, Business and Sustainability' category which recognises an effective and advantageous development of a long-term partnership between a business and arts organisation.

The Circus Space nominated its 10 year partnership with UBS Warburg for the award in recognition of the support they have given us since we began the move to Hoxton in 1992. This support has taken many different forms – employee volunteering and mentoring, project champions, financial and in-kind support and as a client purchasing staff development workshops. It has been a learning experience for both parties, which has enhanced the success of the relationship. The Circus Space has benefited enormously from UBSW volunteers and equally the experience of working under such tight resources and with radically different objectives to their normal working environments has been a valuable experience for them.

The Circus Space was visited on 4th November by Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a successful example of a social enterprise. She spent half an hour with Teo looking round the building and meeting degree students.

Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt with Teo Greenstreet at The Circus Space

The Circus Space is also proud to announce that following the Exam Board meeting at The Central School of Speech and Drama on 6th November, we can announce the following results for the 00/02 'BA (Hons) Theatre Practice (Contemporary Circus)' intake.

1st class honours:
Andrea Gaechter
Sam Hague
Amber Noble

2:1
AnneLise Allard
Sophie Avigdor
Annette Fiaschi
Grainne Kearney
Tim Lenkiewicz
Gemma Mawson
David Parga
Lucie Pasquier
Stewart Pemberton

2:2
Matt Burch
Alice Newton

The Jerwood Circus Awards 2002

The winners of the Jerwood Circus Awards, funded by The Jerwood Charitable Foundation were announced on the 18th September 2002.

For further details please click the link below:
Jerwood Circus Award Winners 2002

Please click on the following link for more information about previous award winners:

Previous Jerwood Award Winners

image: Sissle Honore
2001 Jerwood Circus Award winner, Company f/z in 'Night and Day'

The Circus Space Creation Studio Bursaries

The Circus Space announces the winners of its 2002 Creation Studio
bursaries, a UK-wide initiative designed to enable professional circus
performers to experiment and work towards devising new work - with an
emphasis on the process rather than realising a finished show. This is the
first of three years of these bursaries which are funded by The Esmee
Fairbairn Foundation

Eight bursaries have been awarded - 5 at £1,000 and three at £500 - to both
emerging and established circus artists. An additional three awards - 1 at
£1,000 and 2 at £500 - were also made through funding received from UBS
Warburg.

The winners of the awards funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation are:

£1,000 Bursaries
Emma Insley to experiment with a four person swinging triple-trapeze bar
routine;
Lila Lifely & Alison Bullock to create a new aerial act based on 'Trolley
Dollies';
Mark Morreau to experiment with 3D animation and circus;
Amber Noble & Gemma Mawson towards a new acrobalance routine;
Steve Rawlings to experiment with rhythms within different juggling
patterns.

£500 Bursaries
Girisho Gordon to create and explore the potential of new aerial equipment;
Andrea Gaechter to create new equipment and experiment with aerial work;
Sam Hague & Stewart Pemberton to create new equipment and work towards a
juggling act;

The winners of the awards funded by UBS Warburg are:-

£1,000 Bursaries
Lucie Pasquier to create new aerial equipment and experiment with it;

£500 Bursaries
Max Haverkamp & Annette Fiaschi to explore new Acrobalance routine;
Ajay Chhabra to develop tumbling within an Asian circus group.

Charlie Holland, Programme Director at The Circus Space, said, "These
awards, which are supplemented by other Circus Space resources, offer a real
opportunity for circus artists to explore new territory which we are
confident will lead to a higher standard of performance in the future. I am
delighted that out of a total of 26 applications we have been able to
support almost half and the three-year funding from the Esmee Fairbairn
Foundation means that we will be able to offer a similar scheme next year."

Stilt-walking Lady Mayoress launches Jubilee events

The Lady Mayoress of the City of London, Sally Oliver, on Monday, May 2002, launched the City's Golden Jubilee programme of events with an hour-long display of stilt walking in Guildhall Yard, in the heart of the City.

Mrs Oliver, dressed in a modern City businesswoman's suit, was trained in stilt walking by Adele Thompson, of The Circus Space company.

In the picture, she is flanked by two male stilt walkers dressed as City Gents and accompanied by Adele (centre, back). The other pictures shows the Lady Mayoress demonstrating her skill stilt walking across Guildhall Yard and watering a plant that was part of a display aimed at encouraging City firms to green their offices.

The Lady Mayoress (front centre) with Adele Thompson from The Circus Space (back)

The Circus Space is the only arts organisation in the Inner City 100

The Circus Space in Hackney is the only arts organisation included in the first annual Inner City 100, a national listing of 100 fast-growing companies located exclusively in the UK's inner cities. Launched by the Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in February 2001, the Inner City 100 is an important part of the government's drive to open up enterprise to all through celebrating and showcasing the top 100 business successes in our most challenged inner cities.

Press release

Inner City 100 website

Midsummer Madness - 6th Circus Space Festival - Sponsored by UBS Investment Bank Sunday 22 June 2003 was Family Day at The Circus Space with over 500 people attending Midsummer Madness. Festival goers were able to participate in drop-in workshops in Flying Trapeze, Juggling, Tightwire, Stilts and Unicycle. Free balloons, face painting and entertainment were also on offer throughout the day - with performances from our local youth circus, Goronwy Thom, Gandini Juggling, The Tim Bat Trick Show, Klezmer Band 'The Matzo Boys' and The London Swing Dance Society. Walkabout entertainers 'The Other Half' and 'Stickleback Plasticus' ensured that the humour flowed throughout the day. In the evening The Circus Space Cabaret attracted over 200 people. Photo credit for all photos below: Karen Wilkinson Drop in Juggle Face Painting Goronwy Thom Other Half Productions Stilts Tightwire The Tim Bat Trick Show Stickleback Plasticus The Matzo Boys
THE CIRCUS SPACE ON THE CIRCUS FESTIVAL MAP The Circus Space is delighted at the involvement its former students are having this year in the international circus competitions and festivals. Collette Morrow studied at The Circus Space from 1998 to 1999 prior to selection for the Millennium Dome show. Currently a cast member of Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, Collette, with Igor Arefiev, performed a Pas de Deux aerial act in the 27th Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo, 16 - 23 January 2003 (http://ficmc.free.fr/3COM.htm). The act won the Prix télé Monte-Carlo. Luke Wilson and Ilka Licht, LukaLuka, who studied at The Circus Space from 1995 to 1997, were invited to perform their juggling act at the 24th Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris, 30 Jan - 4 Feb 2003 (http://www.circonautes.com/). Taking part was special for them, but achieving a flawless routine on the Saturday in front of their idol Francis Brunn was the real highlight. Fittingly for an act that is very much at home on the Variete circuit, they won the Special Prize of the Moulin Rouge. Aaron Walker (1999 to 2001) and Ian Marchant (1997 to 1999) have been selected to take part in Bröderna Bronetts cirkusfestival Circo Massimo from 6-17 February in Sweden (http://www.circomassimo.com). Ian then goes on to compete in the 7th Krystallpalast Variete competition in Leipzig on 23rd February 2003 (http://www.krystallpalastvariete.de). The past two competitions were won by former Circus Space students, LukaLuka in 2001 and Girisho Gordon in 2002. Also competing this year in the Krystallpalast will be Kicking the Moon (Jerwood Circus Award winners 2001). Kicking the Moon are Ashley Carr, Magali Bancel and Max Haverkamp who all studied at The Circus Space from 1999 to 2001. Max Haverkamp (1999 to 2001) will then be performing his ball juggling act in competition at La Piste aux Espoirs in Tournai, Belgium from 7 to 9 March 2003 (www.lapisteauxespoirs.com/) . Two of our most recent graduates, Gemma Mawson and Amber Noble (both 2000 to 2002), will be performing their balancing act in the all-female Circus Princessan festival in Stockholm from 5 to 25 May (http://www.bronett.se/sessan/main.html). Images:Glen Stewart The Circus Space, based in London, offers the only Circus degree in the UK; the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice - Circus, in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama and validated by the OUVS. It also has a Artist & Company Development Centre , its own Springboard season of new Circus in April and May, Youth Circuses and an adult class programme.

The Circus Space has won a 2002 Arts and Business Award 2002 in the 'Arts, Business and Sustainability' category which recognises an effective and advantageous development of a long-term partnership between a business and arts organisation. The Circus Space nominated its 10 year partnership with UBS Warburg for the award in recognition of the support they have given us since we began the move to Hoxton in 1992. This support has taken many different forms – employee volunteering and mentoring, project champions, financial and in-kind support and as a client purchasing staff development workshops. It has been a learning experience for both parties, which has enhanced the success of the relationship. The Circus Space has benefited enormously from UBSW volunteers and equally the experience of working under such tight resources and with radically different objectives to their normal working environments has been a valuable experience for them.

The Circus Space was visited on 4th November by Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a successful example of a social enterprise. She spent half an hour with Teo looking round the building and meeting degree students. Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt with Teo Greenstreet at The Circus Space
The Circus Space is also proud to announce that following the Exam Board meeting at The Central School of Speech and Drama on 6th November, we can announce the following results for the 00/02 'BA (Hons) Theatre Practice (Contemporary Circus)' intake. 1st class honours: Andrea Gaechter Sam Hague Amber Noble 2:1 AnneLise Allard Sophie Avigdor Annette Fiaschi Grainne Kearney Tim Lenkiewicz Gemma Mawson David Parga Lucie Pasquier Stewart Pemberton 2:2 Matt Burch Alice Newton

The Jerwood Circus Awards 2002 The winners of the Jerwood Circus Awards, funded by The Jerwood Charitable Foundation were announced on the 18th September 2002. For further details please click the link below: Jerwood Circus Award Winners 2002 Please click on the following link for more information about previous award winners: Previous Jerwood Award Winners image: Sissle Honore 2001 Jerwood Circus Award winner, Company f/z in 'Night and Day'

The Circus Space Creation Studio Bursaries The Circus Space announces the winners of its 2002 Creation Studio bursaries, a UK-wide initiative designed to enable professional circus performers to experiment and work towards devising new work - with an emphasis on the process rather than realising a finished show. This is the first of three years of these bursaries which are funded by The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Eight bursaries have been awarded - 5 at £1,000 and three at £500 - to both emerging and established circus artists. An additional three awards - 1 at £1,000 and 2 at £500 - were also made through funding received from UBS Warburg. The winners of the awards funded by The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation are: £1,000 Bursaries Emma Insley to experiment with a four person swinging triple-trapeze bar routine; Lila Lifely & Alison Bullock to create a new aerial act based on 'Trolley Dollies'; Mark Morreau to experiment with 3D animation and circus; Amber Noble & Gemma Mawson towards a new acrobalance routine; Steve Rawlings to experiment with rhythms within different juggling patterns. £500 Bursaries Girisho Gordon to create and explore the potential of new aerial equipment; Andrea Gaechter to create new equipment and experiment with aerial work; Sam Hague & Stewart Pemberton to create new equipment and work towards a juggling act; The winners of the awards funded by UBS Warburg are:- £1,000 Bursaries Lucie Pasquier to create new aerial equipment and experiment with it; £500 Bursaries Max Haverkamp & Annette Fiaschi to explore new Acrobalance routine; Ajay Chhabra to develop tumbling within an Asian circus group. Charlie Holland, Programme Director at The Circus Space, said, "These awards, which are supplemented by other Circus Space resources, offer a real opportunity for circus artists to explore new territory which we are confident will lead to a higher standard of performance in the future. I am delighted that out of a total of 26 applications we have been able to support almost half and the three-year funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation means that we will be able to offer a similar scheme next year."

Stilt-walking Lady Mayoress launches Jubilee events The Lady Mayoress of the City of London, Sally Oliver, on Monday, May 2002, launched the City's Golden Jubilee programme of events with an hour-long display of stilt walking in Guildhall Yard, in the heart of the City. Mrs Oliver, dressed in a modern City businesswoman's suit, was trained in stilt walking by Adele Thompson, of The Circus Space company. In the picture, she is flanked by two male stilt walkers dressed as City Gents and accompanied by Adele (centre, back). The other pictures shows the Lady Mayoress demonstrating her skill stilt walking across Guildhall Yard and watering a plant that was part of a display aimed at encouraging City firms to green their offices. The Lady Mayoress (front centre) with Adele Thompson from The Circus Space (back)

The Circus Space is the only arts organisation in the Inner City 100 The Circus Space in Hackney is the only arts organisation included in the first annual Inner City 100, a national listing of 100 fast-growing companies located exclusively in the UK's inner cities. Launched by the Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in February 2001, the Inner City 100 is an important part of the government's drive to open up enterprise to all through celebrating and showcasing the top 100 business successes in our most challenged inner cities. Press release Inner City 100 website