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idea pops into your head. It seems ridiculous. Impossibly exciting.
You can feel it bubble through your
stomach and when you think about
it again, your lips and mouth stretch
into a cheeky smile, and your eyes
dart from left to right.

‘’Bing, oh cool,
that’s a great idea,
ha, let’s do it!’’
By Dan Renw
ick

It’s a wonderful feeling when the creative juices flow and you feel like you’re on
the verge of making the next best circus
smoothie.

It’s a wonderful feeling
when the creative juices flow and you feel like
you’re on the verge of
making the next best circus smoothie.
The next step of turning your ideas from
mere electronic impulses into the tangible real world that is effected by gravity,
lighting and staging is sometimes not
as easy as first estimated. Throw into the
mix the financial burden of buying props,
stage design, rehearsal space, renting a
performance area, deciding how many
shows to play, negotiating the contract,
setting technical riders, selling tickets,
doing promotion or hiring someone to
do all or most of that and then actually

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working on the original smile inducing
circus smoothie… well it can be all too
much.
Open Tsirkus Stage has been developed
to take the strain (some!!) out of developing an idea into a performance. We
provide a stage, an audience, an MC and
the absolute freedom to perform what
you desire. It can be a work in progress.
It can be an idea that popped into your
head as you were walking to the theatre.
It can be a collaboration with someone
you have worked with for years. It can
be anything and everything. Big or small.
Short or long. Funny or sad. Contemporary or traditional. Dog or cat. Green or
yellow. Socks or sandals.

We provide a stage, an
audience, an MC and the
absolute freedom to perform what you desire.

re to meet and mingle with performers,
artists, professionals, hobbyists, amateurs,
directors, agents, producers and the ordinary, general public.
The 8th edition of Open Tsirkus Stage
will be happening within the boundaries
of the Estonian Circus Festival, at 1830 on
the 19th of April, at Piip ja Tuut Mängumaja, Toom-Kooli 13 in Tallinn.
For the audience, it’s free to get in, you
pay to get out (you decide how much)
Money-back guarantee.
So come on down to Open Tsirkus Stage
and taste a few circus smoothies freshly
made from creative circus juice. ///
For further details about performing or
being in the audience checkout :
www.facebook.com/OpenTsirkusStage

Oh we also provide a lovely atmosphePhot from Dans Renwicks personal archive

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