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Circostrada's FRESH Circus conference comes to Stockholm and Botkyrka on 17 to 20 February 2027
Three mornings of talks, afternoons on the Nordic scene, and new work from Camille Boitel and Sève Bernard.
If you make circus, programme it or work on circus policy, mark 17 to 20 February 2027. FRESH Circus, the international conference run by Circostrada, holds its sixth edition in Stockholm and Botkyrka. The full programme and pre-registration open on 25 November, and we'll come back to it then.
Circostrada is a European network for circus and outdoor arts, with more than 180 member organisations in 45 countries. Its conference usually brings together around 400 people: programmers, artists, researchers, policymakers and EU representatives. Riksteatern, one of the Swedish co-hosts, says it's the first time FRESH Circus comes to a Nordic country.
The theme is "Circus as a force for collective futures". The conference itself runs over three mornings, each in a different venue.
The first, at Subtopia in Botkyrka, asks: "Can we create a future together without knowing where we are going?" The second, at Riksteatern, asks what the sector needs to build to get there. The third, at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, imagines society in 2077, with circus as the lens.
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Cirque du Soleil's first permanent show in Europe passes 500,000 tickets and stays in Berlin to the end of 2027
ALIZÉ, Cirque du Soleil's first permanent show in Europe, has sold more than 500,000 tickets in Berlin, according to a press release from Live Nation reported by Pollstar. Live Nation, which produces the show, has added dates to the end of 2027.
It opened at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in November 2025, so that's half a million tickets in less than a year. Until ALIZÉ, Cirque du Soleil came to Germany on tour: 16 productions under the big top or in arenas, in 16 German cities, since Saltimbanco in 1995.
So what is on stage? The show is directed by Valentine Losseau and Raphaël Navarro of Compagnie 14:20, who are also credited as its magic designers. Cirque du Soleil presents their work as magie nouvelle, "the new magic art form", and calls the result Acromagic, built on invisibility, levitation and holographic technology.
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