Welcome to the Circus Guide!

Don’t know where to send your promo material? Check out our circus directories and links for up to date addresses for circuses, varieties and agencies. Need circus equipment? We’ve provided links for the very best equipment makers around the world. Look in ‘Tips for Circus Artists’ for advice on how to make your own circus act and promote yourself, including costume and make-up tips, and check our forums for regular updates on auditions and job offers. It’s all here!

Circus Guide Magazine

This is where you get the chance to get up close and personal with the circus world. ‘Circus Blog’ tells fascinating first-hand stories of artists working all over the world, while ‘Interviews with the Circus World’ are exclusive talks with circus performers who describe their onstage and private lives, and the paths they took to get there. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to be a circus artist, look at ‘Tips for Circus Artists’, a comprehensive guide put together in the aide of helping young performers make the transition into the professional world of circus art.

Tips For Circus Artists

Some people become circus artists because they are born into circus families, or begin as children and graduate from circus school. Others switch over to circus art from other disciplines such as sports acrobatics, gymnastics, or dance, and then there are those crazy people from extreme sport who wind up performing their dare devil tricks in a circus tent. Whichever path led you to make circus art your life, breaking into the circus industry can be very difficult. When you look on the internet at the vast amounts of competition out there, and all the glossy, professional websites with amazing photos of circus artists captured in flight, the task of getting your foot in the door can seem almost overwhelming. Don’t worry, it’s not. It takes a bit of work though, and most of all persistence.