This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.
Dr. Franziska Trapp is a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Riikka Juutinen is a Finnish Master of Social Sciences from the University of Tampere with Social Anthropology as her major subject. She is interested in questions of transnationalism and mobility, and in her master's thesis, she focused on themes about circus and mobility studies. Juutinen completed an internship at the international conference UpSideDown-Circus at Zirkus | Wissenschaft research project in 2017. Since then her area of work has been crisis work, child protection and work with people with substance issues.
