The Travellist Issue 3 | Page 36

Culture - Marco Marucci - Il Circo di Nando authorization that Elvio, the owner of the Apollo circus, gave me, does not prevent me from having to introduce myself to the people I meet, curiously asking who I was. I soon found out that most of the performers were asleep in their trailers, away from the heat, resting throughout the afternoon until seven in the evening. I t is August when I reach the company in Lido di Classe in Ravenna, northern Italy. I enter the circus with caution and discretion, the same way that a stranger might when entering through the open door of an unknown house. I look around, hoping to meet someone’s eye with a smile and thus receive implicit permission to disturb their peace. But all is quiet. When I finally did find someone, the The Travellist | Issue 3 | July 2015 p34