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INTRODUCTION
what is withdrawal and why is it vital?
what is humble about a humble circus?
METHODOLOGY: THINKING ABOUT DOING A HUMBLE CIRCUS
what are dramaturgical tactics?
feeding the possible
theory and practice
how could a methodology be humble?
CARING
circus arts and the triumph of Homo: fantasies of mastery
is there a way out?
TUNING
making tuning
doing tuning
attending tuning
CRAFTING
making crafting
doing crafting
attending crafting
DWELLING
making dwelling
doing dwelling
attending dwelling
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE: THINKING THROUGH FISH WORK
dwelling
tuning
crafting

Résumé :
This thesis formulates alternative and more sustainable ways of making, doing and attending circus. These approaches to circus are termed ‘humble circus’ because of the decentralized position of human beings and their staging of careful relations between humans and nonhumans. In the light of the contemporary ecological disaster, a humble circus wants to resists the anthropocentric fantasies of mastery which I consider to be present in a lot of circus practices today. Drawing from potential inherent to today’s circus practices, philosophical texts and the way they speak to each other, three dramaturgical tactics are composed. These tactics are TUNING, CRAFTING and DWELLING. All of them are characterized by the cultivation of careful relations. By looking closely at the way circus artists like Phia Ménard/Compagnie Non Nova, Klub Girko and Un loup pour l’homme tune, craft and dwell, and by thinking through this potential, a humble circus assumes form.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque