In her new book, Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of the Circus, author J. Dee Hill likens the contemporary resurgence of underground circus performers to the punk-rock revolution of the ...

This isn't your grandfather's circus. At Circus Contraption, there are no animal acts, no rings and the sequins are spare. But it might be your great-grandfather's idea of entertainment. It's just one ...

"There seems to be some sort of circus renaissance going on in Seattle," muses Evelyn Bittner. Bittner is well placed for such musings. Doctor of veterinary medicine by day, she is "Acrophelia, ...