{"id":99164,"date":"2025-10-21T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=99164"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:31:38","slug":"festival-circolo-2025-toont-de-verbindende-kracht-van-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/10\/festival-circolo-2025-toont-de-verbindende-kracht-van-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Circolo 2025 shows the connecting power of circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hands are out, the tents put away: Festival Circolo 2025 is over. The 13th edition of the contemporary circus festival attracted over 10,000 visitors to Tilburg in ten days. With sold-out tents, rave reviews and several audience favourites, the festival looks back on a special edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For ten days, the Spoorpark turned into a lively circus village, where performers from home and abroad provided surprising, moving and breathtaking performances. Les Dodos became a crowd favourite with seven shows, five of which were completely sold out. J\u00falia Campistany was also allowed to attend her Dutch premiere of the performance Cirquem\u00e9trage<\/em> hanging out the \u2018sold out\u2019 sign four times. At the Theatre Concert Hall stole Les Rois Vagabonds<\/em> hearts with their poetic mix of clownery and classical music. In total, Festival Circolo presented 52 performances, 11 of which were free to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFestival Circolo has touched me in so many ways over all these years,\u201d says outgoing director Marc Eysink Smeets. \u201cAnd this year was no exception. It remains special to see how people, stories and imagination come together here. Circolo is more than a festival, it is ten days of a small world where the best of people come together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos: Jostijn Ligtvoet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the opening day, Marc Eysink Smeets, involved since 2007 and director since 2012, was awarded the Tilburg Trophy for his years of commitment to the festival and circus arts. Astrid Cats takes over from him as the new festival director. \u201cMy first year as director was immediately one to remember,\u201d says Astrid Cats. \u201cI saw everything and feasted my eyes. From full tents at the big international companies to the warm welcome for new creators, it's great to see how curious and open audiences are to what circus has to offer today.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

De handjes zijn uitgeklapt, de tenten opgeborgen: Festival Circolo 2025 zit erop. De 13e editie van het hedendaagse circusfestival trok in tien dagen tijd ruim 10.000 bezoekers naar Tilburg. Met uitverkochte tenten, lovende reacties en meerdere publieksfavorieten kijkt het festival terug op een bijzondere editie. Tien dagen lang veranderde het Spoorpark in een levendig circusdorp, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":99165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12530,13483,11917,8843,3059],"tags":[13420,333],"class_list":["post-99164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circolo","category-circus","category-persberichten","category-podiumkunst","category-specials","tag-circolo","tag-tilburg"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-300x200.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-768x512.jpg","large":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-1024x682.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-1536x1024.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Circolo-11102025-JostijnLigtvoetFotografie-1529-18x12.jpg"},"post_author":"een van onze leden","assigned_categories":"Circolo, CIRCUS, PERSBERICHTEN, PODIUMKUNST, SPECIALS","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98411,"url":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2025\/09\/festival-circolo-2025-speelsheid-als-tegengif\/","url_meta":{"origin":99164,"position":0},"title":"Festival Circolo 2025: playfulness as antidote","author":"een van onze leden","date":"2 September 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"From 10 to 19 October, Tilburg's Spoorpark will once again be the vibrant centre of Festival Circolo, the Netherlands' largest festival for contemporary circus. 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