Circus Stockholm University of Arts

Overview

About Circus at Stockholm University of Arts 

As a student you will work with artistic expression within the many different forms of circus art. You will get the opportunity to develop your own discipline and explore your personal artistic language.

Our previous students work as freelancers, in companies, form their own companies, take part in festivals and events and have expanded the boundaries for where and how you can present circus skills. Circus artists work in different genres and many create collaborations with other art forms.  There is freedom to work both nationally and internationally, as a soloist or in an ensemble. A Bachelor's Degree in circus gives you the possibility to study at an advanced level, for instance at a master programme.

In the Circus programme of the Stockholm University of Arts you develop tools for your artistic practice both to be able to take part in collective processes and to be able to work on your own and create your own projects.

The programme contains courses in circus discipline training, artistic processes and how to create a sustainable career as a circus artist. As a student you will work with performance, interpretation, improvisation and how to face/approach the audience. The different aspects of creative stage work will be deepened as you continuously explore, create, practice and present artistic projects in different formats. Another important part is safety for both physical training and rigging.

In the Bachelor’s Programme in Circus there are also courses where you as a student can relate your own practice within circus to a historic, artistic and social contexts.