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lucho smit

Lucho Smit is the new artistic director of Circus Festival Circolo: "Our festival will become even more of a place for encounters between creators, students, audiences and society."

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 October 2023
1 min read
Circolo, CIRCUS, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

"My accent, my heart is with the people involved in circus. I therefore want to put them at the centre." Lucho Smit (1983) has been artistic director of Tilburg circus festival Circolo, which starts on 13 October, since April this year. He wants to put the festival, which has been around for 15 years, in the middle of the...

[PRESS RELEASE] Lucho Smit new artistic director of Festival Circolo

by one of our members
7 March 20237 March 2023
2 min read
Circolo, CIRCUS, PRESS, PODIUM ART

From 1 April, Lucho Smit will become the new artistic director of Festival Circolo, the largest contemporary circus festival in the Netherlands. He succeeds Wendy Moonen and has ambitious plans to position the festival even more strongly in the Dutch and international performing arts sector, improve interaction between circus creators and audiences and develop socially relevant circus projects. The festival will take place at Spoorpark Tilburg from 13 to 22 October 2023.