Abstract Todd Phillips's 2019 movie Joker reconfigures and actualizes body aesthetics and
performance traditions—eccentric movements and so-called epileptic dancing—celebrated …

“One of the few professions that have remained purely male is that of the clown”—at least
according to a short article in an Austrian regional newspaper from 1926, wedged between …

The aesthetics and the performance practice of the circus were formative for the historical
avant-gardes. Our book, as highlighted by this introductory chapter, aims to produce a better …

Ein paar Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer, Kinder und Erwachsene, sitzen kreisförmig auf
Holzkisten oder direkt auf dem Boden; hinter ihnen befinden sich einfache Leinwände–alles …

Focusing on comic scientists in the popular cultural matrix around 1900 and the early 20th
century, the heyday of circus arts, this paper explores an ongoing aesthetic tradition of comic …

This chapter contends that circus arts rely on technological invention of apparatus to
advance athletic and aesthetic innovation, and that this process then influences wider social …