We asked the Think Circus! conference speakers to share with us the works that have inspired them. Discover their recommendations:

Agathe Dumont

• Magali Sizorn, Trapézistes. Ethnologie d’un cirque en mouvement, PUR, 2013. 
• Guy Cools, Imaginative Bodies. Dialogues in Performance Practices, Valiz, 2016. 
• Elsa  Dorlin, Se défendre. Une philosophie de la Violenc, Zones, 2017. 
• Bojana Kunst, Artist at work. Proximity of art and capitalism, Zero Books, 2015. 
• Tim Ingolds, L’anthropologie comme éducation, PUR, 2018. 
• Taru Elfving, Irmeli Kokko, Pascal Gielen, Contemporary Artist. Reclaiming Time and Space, Valiz, 2019. 
• Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism, Penguin Book, 2013.
• Olivier Neveux, Contre le théâtre politique, La fabrique éditions, 2019. 
• “Écouter LE TRAVAIL. Recherches autour du travail artistique, du quotidien, de la santé et du soin”, website, https://agatheprojetsante.wixsite.com/auquotidien

Guillaume Martinet

• Jacques Rancière,  Le maître ignorant. Cinq leçons sur l’émancipation intellectuelle, Fayard, 1987. 
• Pierre Bourdieu,  La domination Masculine, Le Seuil, 1998. 
• Frantz Fanon: L’ensemble de son œuvre !
• Françoise Vergès: Un féminisme décolonial, La Fabrique éditions, 2019. 
• Elsa Dorlin (coordination),  FEU :  Abécédaire des féminismes présent, Les éditions Libertalia, 2021. 
• Casey, Libérez la bête, album de musique, Ladilafé Productions, 2010. 

Marion Collé

• Giorgio Agamben, Qu’est-ce que le contemporain ?, Éditions Payot et Rivage, 2008.
• Eugène Guillevic, Art poétique, Poésie/Gallimard, 2001.
• Marielle Macé, Nos cabanes,  Éditions Verdier, 2019. 
• Georges Didi-Huberman, L’homme qui marchait dans la couleur, Les éditions de Minuit, 2001.

Marion Guyez 

• Mabel E. Todd, Le Corps pensant, Bruxelles, Contredanse, 2012. 
• Camille Louis, (2021), « Agir en dramaturge », L’Extension, recherche&création, https://percees.uqam.ca/fr/le-vivarium/agir-en-dramaturge
• Dianne Scott, Ruine. Invention d’un objet critique, Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2019.
• Itziar Ziga, Devenir chienne, Paris, Ed. Cambourakis, 2020.
• Léonora Miano, Rouge impératrice, Grasset, 2019.
• Anne Gonon, Tout ouïe. La création musicale et sonore en espace public, Montpellier, L’Entretemps, 2016.
• Claire GUIU, Guillaume FABUREL, Marie-Madeleine MERVANT-ROUX, Henry TORGUE, Henry WOLOSZYN, Soundspaces. Espaces, expériences et politiques du sonore, Rennes, Presses Universitaire de Rennes, 2014.
• À la recherche d’une autre acrobatie, carnet Hypothèse : https://uneautreacro.hypotheses.org/ 

Darragh McLoughlin

• James P. Carse, Finite and infinite Games, Mass Market Paperback, 1987. 
• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow,  Penguin books, 1st edition 2012. 
• George Cockcroft a.k.a Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man, Harper & Collins, 1st edition 1971. 
• Haruki Murakami, After Dark, Ballantine books, 2008. 
• Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest, Head of Zeus, 2015. 
• George Orwell, Brave New World, 1st edition 1932.  
• Jonathan Burrows, A Choreographer’s Handbook, 2010

Carolyn Watt

• Carolyn Watt, “Social circus in aerials: Female experience, muscularity, pain and trust”, Theater, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19443927.2021.1968025 (journal article)
• Carolyn Watt, “Social Aerial Circus: Female Experience, Self-perception and Self-representation”, practice-based research website, https://cawatt.wixsite.com/cwattphd (website and videos)
• Ilaria Bessone. (2017a). Italian ‘Contemporary’ Circus in a Neoliberal Scenario: artistic labour, embodied knowledge, and responsible selfhood. (PhD). University of Turin University of Milan, Italy.
• Ilaria Bessone. (2017b). Social Circus as an Organised Cultural Encounter Embodied Knowledge, Trust and Creativity at Play. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38(6), 651-664. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07256868.2017.1379962 (journal article)
• Jillian Deri, and Wendy Mendes. 2012. “Doing Pain “Right” the Pleasures of Pain in Aerial Dance.” In Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspectives, edited by Lisa Folkmarson Käll, 94–106. Oxon: Routledge. (book chapter)
• Francesca Peschier. (2019). The Extraordinary Bodies of Aerial Circus. Exuent Magazine. Retrieved from http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/extraordinary-bodies-aerial-circus/ (online magazine article)
• Katrina Carter. 2014. “Suspending Conventions: How ‘Disabled Aerialists’ Are Challenging Aesthetic and Methodological Practices in 21st Century Aerial(Ism).” PhD diss., Royal Holloway University London. (PhD thesis)
• Helen Thomas. 2003. The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. (book)
• Olga Sorzano. (2018a). Circus Between Centre and Periphery: The recognition of the form in 21st Century Britain and Colombia (PhD). City, University of London, London. (PhD thesis)
• Olga Sorzano. (2018b). Is Social Circus “The Other” of Professional Circus? Performance Matters, 4 (1-1), 116-133. https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/139 (journal article)
• Peta Tait. 2005. Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. Oxon: Routledge.(book) https://upswing.org.uk/about-us/ (Upswing, contemporary circus, UK company) 

Laura Murphy

Video links:

• Contra trailer: https://vimeo.com/387072992
• A Spectacle of Herself RESEARCH FILM trailer: https://vimeo.com/672309669?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=53098479 

Reading Links:

• Laura Murphy, Deconstructing the Spectacle: Aerial Performance as Critical Practice. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2019) / Download here: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/25557/2/L%20MURPHY%20PhD%20Deconstructing%20the%20Spectacle%20Aerial%20Work%20as%20Critical%20Practice.pdf

• Sara Jane Bailes, Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure, 2010

• Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967
• The Famous/Lauren Barri Holstein, ‘Splat!: Death, mess, failure and ‘blue-balling’, 2014

            https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2014.928524

• Bauke Lievens,  Quintijn Ketels, Sebastien Kann & Vincent Focquet, Thinking Through Circus, 2020
• Marisa Carnesky,  Dr Carnesky’s incredible bleeding woman. PhD thesis, Middlesex University (2019) https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/28152/1/MCarr%20thesis.pdf

Myrto Petrochilou 

• Wassily Kandinsky, ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’, Nefeli, 1981.
• Plato, Republic- ‘The Allegory of the Cave’, Kaktos, 1992.
• Erika Fischer-Lichte, ‘The Transformative Power of Performance. A New Aesthetics’, Routledge, 2008.
• Buckmister Fuller, ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’, Editor Jamie Snyder, Lars Muller Publishers, 2008.

• Robert L.Solso, ‘Cognition and the Visual Arts’, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1996.
• Mary Wigman, ‘When The Fire Dances Between The Poles 1886-1973’, short documentary- Dance Horizons Video, distributed by Princeton Book Company
• [9] film trailer [9]_ XprmntL_ in progress / myrto-petrochilou.com

Inbal Ben Haim

• Henri Michaux, L’Espace du dedans / EXTRAIT DE PASSAGES -Edition Gallimard, 1998
• João Moreira Salles, EL SALVADOR – A respeito da força e da fragilidade, Piauí- Edição 147, Dezembro 2018. (https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/el-salvador/)