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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"