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Help us bring Beyond Circus to life! 🎪

Screaming Goats Collective is in the running for Field Law Community Fund support to help Calgary circus artists develop new work—with paid creation time, mentorship, and a pay-what-you-can public cabaret.

It takes just a moment to show your support:
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💜 Share this post to help spread the word.

Photo credit: @elysebouvier featuring @_lady_mystic

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I never understood why everyone wore shorts on pole… until now🤣

It took me over a year postpartum to feel comfortable on the equipment again, and honestly, I never imagined I’d come back and try something completely new. ❤️

Here’s to stepping outside my comfort zone, trusting my body, and remembering that progress doesn’t always look the way you expect it to. ✨

Huge thank you to my training buddy @circusmonsterleda for continuously pushing me past my boundaries and encouraging me to try things I never thought I would! ❤️🎪

#yyc #pole #newthings #trainingbuddy

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An Act is more than a Routine!

Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Campus Saint-Jean Amphithéâtre

A circus act is more than tricks and technique — it’s a creative expression. Join six accomplished circus artists from a variety of disciplines as they discuss how they build their work: where inspiration comes from, how artistic choices are made, and what they hope audiences take away from a performance.

Join us for an opportunity to hear from international artists, ask questions, and explore the creative side of circus. Free admission!

Panelists:
Leda Davies, Alberta [Moderator]
Emma Curtiss, USA
Eve Gordon, New Zealand
Jason Melnychuk, Alberta
Jenn Bruyer, British Columbia
Luis Meirelles, New Zealand
Sarah-Soleil Nault, Quebec

@circusmonsterleda @e.vie.gordon @jasoncircus @heelhang @circusluis @sarahsoleil.n @curtissemma

#yegarts #yegtingstodo #yegcircus #edmontonfestival #circusarts

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Beyond the Ideal Body: A Moderated Conversation on Fatness, Access, and Aesthetics in Circus

Friday, June 19, 2026 | 3:00-4:00 pm
Campus Saint-Jean Amphithéâtre

This moderated conversation brings together artists, researchers, and movement practitioners to explore how fat bodies are represented, excluded, and reimagined within circus and movement-based performance practices. Through perspectives grounded in artistic practice, accessibility, and embodied experience, the discussion will touch on body norms in circus training and aesthetics, fat activism, and how performance spaces might broaden understandings of who belongs on stage.

Free to Attend.

@circusmonsterleda @screaminggoatscollective

#yegarts #yegtingstodo #yegcircus #edmontonfestival #circusarts

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💫 You’re invited: Fat Circus Lab* 💫

A free, welcoming workshop for plus-sized bodies—no circus experience needed.

Together we’ll explore ground acro + aerial hammock (and maybe hoop!) in a space rooted in curiosity, creativity, and care—while challenging ideas about who circus is “for.”

If you’ve ever wondered if circus could be for you… this is your moment.

EDMONTON
April 18 | 2:00–4:00pm
Firefly Circus Studio

CALGARY
May 31 | 10:00am–12:00pm
Vocab Athletic Arts

Led by Léda Davies (@circusmonsterleda)
In collaboration with The Screaming Goats Collective

FREE — Pre-registration required
Limited spots available

Made possible with support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

🔗 Register via link in bio

#FatCircus #InclusiveCircus #BodyDiversity #CircusForAll #FatLiberation #AerialArts #YYCEvents #YEGEvents #CircusCommunity #MovementForAll

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Finally sharing the trailer for Fish at the Bottom of the Sea — a circus–theatre solo about loss and grief, performed at cSPACE in Calgary, November 2024.

It was also my first time performing in Calgary since returning in 2020. Bringing this work home made its reception feel especially meaningful.

Endless gratitude to @cspace.mardaloop and to the collaborators who helped shape and hold this piece. 🌊

Show Credits:
@nicole.schafenacker - Playwright, Dramaturg

@ekch - Director

@circusmonsterleda - Eve, Choreographer
@annemarie.coach - Stage Manager

Ashley Weckesser - Sound Designer

@alexjprich- Lighitng Designer

Camille Craig- Sound Operator
Hannah Fisher - Costume Consultant

Previous Mentorship from: Lin Snelling (Movement), Scott Smallwood (Sound)

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Ciel45 is proud to announce our second panel adjudicator, Léda Davies.

Léda Davies is a Calgary-based circus artist specializing in aerial silks, straps, Weggsphere, and acrobatic dance. She trained in Montreal with coaches from Cirque du Soleil, the National Circus School, Théâtre Dynamo, and the Manitoulin Conservatory for Performance and Creation.

Léda is the co-founder of the Screaming Goats Collective, a non-profit creating circus shows that tell stories for social change. Their debut work, Persephone Bound, was nominated for five Montreal English Theatre Awards and won two, including Outstanding Contribution to Theatre. The film adaptation won the Circus International Film Festival’s full-length category.

Léda holds an MFA in Theatre Practice from the University of Alberta, where she focused on integrating aerial circus into theatrical performance. She has taught at the University of Calgary, University of Alberta, Firefly Theatre, and Green Fools Theatre.

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✨ That's a wrap on Free Falling! ✨

As our playwright @nicole.schafenacker so eloquently wrote in our program "This play is about feeling one’s way through that dark corridor and through the unknown of how we reorganize into a self beyond the one we were before".

Now that we are on the other side of this performance my heart is full of gratitude for its transformational power and I want to extend my deepest thanks to everyone who made this incredible journey possible:

💛 Holly and Peter from Femmes du Feu for their stunning production In the Fire
💛 @cSPACE King Edward for providing the perfect venue to bring our stories to life
💛 Our amazing Kickstarter patrons and the generous audiences who showed up with open hearts

And, of course, my brilliant team of collaborators:
🎭 Nicole Schafenacker – Playwright, Dramaturg
🎬 Liz Hobbs – Director
🎭 Anne-Marie Hivert – Stage Manager
🎶 Ashley Weckesser – Sound Designer
💡 Alexandra Prichard – Lighting Designer
🎧 Camille Craig – Sound Operator
👗 Hannah Fisher – Costume Consultant
📣 Aldona Barutowicz (Aldona B Creative) – Publicist

Photo Credit: @elysebouvier

Creating Free Falling has been a profound experience of collaboration, resilience, and creativity. Together, we’ve explored themes of loss, hope, relationships, and healing through circus and theatre, and it’s been an honor to share this work with all of you.

Thank you for being part of this journey. 💫

#FreeFallingYYC #CircusTheatre #GriefToHealing #ThankYou

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Your last chance to catch Free Falling: A Contemporary Circus Double Bill is today at 2pm.

There are still some tickets available at the door!!!

@cspace.mardaloop
@femmesdufeu

Photo credit: @elysebouvier

#freefalling #circustheater #contemporarycircus #yycnow #yycartist #griefandhealing

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We are not the same humans we were when we began this process back in 2020. So proud of everyone on this team for their tenacity in bringing this double bill and the world of Fish at the Bottom of the Sea to life. Here we go!! 🐟❤️⭐

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Tech time!! So excited to be in the theatre and see it all coming to life 🤩

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Today’s the day!
Load-in to @cspace.mardaloop for #freefallingcircus has begun.

Tickets are selling fast!!!

🔗🎟️ Link to tickets in our bio

With @femmesdufeu

#circusarts #circusperformance #aerialarts #contemporarycircus #contemporarycircus #circustheatre #griefandhealing #supportthearts

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