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June 29- July 4; July 6-9, 2017
Log Sheet #7

Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Audio/Video Log Sheet

Logger/Videographer: Atalanta Ritter
Recorder Number (Main): CFCH 5
File Name: CIRSTR_0070.wav
Recorder Number (Main): CFCH 6
File Name: CIRSTR2_0070.wav
Presenter: Rodney Huey
Date/Time: 2017/07/03 - 3:30 PM
Program: Circus Arts
Stage: Circus Stories
Group Name: N/A
Session Title: Circle Today: How Circus Is Changing/ Reflecting the Times

Participants
Instrument/Occupation 
[[Two Column Table]]
Dominique Jando | Circus historian
Dan Butler | Director of Circus Jurentas
Adam Woolley | Managing director of Circus Now, coach
Jennifer Posey | Curator at museum 
Rodney Huey | Part of World Cirus Foundation, worked w/ Ringling

Contents/Notes (continue on back):
1. Introduction of speakers - "The circus is anything but dead"
2. How circuses reach out to their audience (through posters) inventions, information passion of the artists
3. Diversity of circus arts (body types, sizes)
4. Phenomenon of youth circuses + explosion of circus education in America
5. Ringling closing down - the significance, ushering in new generation of circus
6. European circuses
7. Influence of circus in pop culture - music, theatre, dance
8. Circus' diversity of disciplines (Mongolian contortion, Master Luyi)
9. Circus culture + community 
10. Audience questions -> circus education + circus arts -> circus moving away from animals, "expression of humanity"