Some thoughts on 'Circus' after seeing 'Jumbo Circus'at Police Maidan,Kannur,on 3rd December 2010.
Circus has evolved into an art form in it's true sense,reducing the elements of acrobatics and balancing tricks to a considerable extent.Music,Lighting and Choreography have improved tremendously.The elements of drama,dance and even sculpture have been included in almost all items.This has been done with a commendable aesthetic sense.
The second thing I have noticed is that this art form has become truely international in it's form and content.Jumbo circus has artists from Thalassery(Kerala)to Czechoslovakia and Africa and each item or number(the term circus artists prefer)they perform exhibit the local colour and rhythm quite distinctively.Thus a show lasting for 2hours becomes a big visual feast which allows the viewers to enjoy the taste and flavour of Indian,European and African artistic expressions taking the form of Circus.
As Circus is one of the preliminary or basic art form which converts and crystallizes the most dangerous and dramatic movements in human life into symbols of awe inspiring bodily movements and actions any noticeable change in this art form is a reflection of our changing attitudes to life.What we could read from the latest presentations in Jumbo Circus is this:Our life has been freed from many of the tensions we have been experiencing until recently.It has become confident enough to maintain it's local identity while being free to welcome foreign elements into it's fold.
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