30 Mar 2019
Circus Movements
An examination of bodies, movement and the stillness of landscape brought to you by the entrancing Circus Debre Berhan.
Calder's 1927 Great Circus
Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jean Painleve made Le Grande Cirque Calder 1927, begun in 1953 and completed in 1955.
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