Older circus news from 2026

 

26 March 2026

 

Circus Arena 2026. In the circus industry, they love celebrating anniversaries in the hope that it will attract extra many people to the circus.

 

Circus Arena was founded in 1955. In 2020, they had planned to celebrate their 65th anniversary. However, the Corona meant that they did not go on tour in either 2020 or 2021. They then chose to celebrate their 65th anniversary in 2022, even though they had actually turned 67 that year. In 2025, they celebrated their 70th anniversary. And this year they are celebrating that Hanne and Benny Berdino have been directors of Circus Arena for 50 years. Something no other European circus director couple can boast of.

 

 

 

The formal anniversary is St. Hans' Eve on 23 June. 50 years after Benny's father, after a trip to the post office, said 'Have a good day girls' and unexpectedly dropped dead.

"I didn't dare not to have a performance that evening. He would have beheaded me if I hadn't let the show go on " says Benny Berdino in Jacob Wendt Jensen's book Danish Circus - nostalgia and present.

 

For many years, Circus Arena has had a well-performing circus band, the last few years with 6 Polish musicians in the bandstand. This year, the music is pre-recorded, but accompanied by a drummer. Partly because many artists prefer pre-recorded music that they are sure will suit their act and partly because Circus Arena save more than ½ million DKK by dropping the orchestra. Some will certainly miss the live music. Others don't care.

 


Circus Arena opened the season at Bellahoj in Copenhagen on 25 April

 

This year's performance began with a small tent in the ring was used as screen showing a short film about Benny Berdino and Circus Arena through the years.

 

 
 

Then the ringmasters Bubber and Malene Qvist welcomed and presented the first artist in the performance: David Hammarberg with his great act in bungee trapeze. David has been with Arena since 2023 and most recently showed the bungee act in 2024.

 


David ready for a bungee jump.

 

The next artist act was the Mexican tempo juggler Juan Pablo Martinez. First with clubs and then with ping-pong balls, which he sent high into the air with his mouth. He ended by juggling hats, both in the ring and while he ran around between the rows on the grandstand. A terrific act!

 

Juan Pablo Martinez was also at Arena in 2018, where the late newspaper reviewer Rud Kofoed described his act as follows: “The spotlight on the world trip we meet in Mexico's volcanoes with the juggler Juan Pablo Martinez, who is an explosion of joy of life and uses every part of the ring in his dynamic number where it gets both hats, clubs and ping-pong balls to the closest possible a juggler can come to a volcanic eruption”. A description which still fits.

 

 


This is how you can use ping-pong balls. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 


The Lord of the Hats

 

Now it was time for the show's first clown entrée. Circus Arena's house clown Jimmy Folco has previously used his wife as a partner. This year he has the young Michael Alves with him in the ring. Their first entrée was the "unload, load" routine, where Jimmy is looking for a job in the circus and Michael is dragging a large suitcase back and forth. One of Toto Chabri's most beloved clown routines, which circus friends remember not least from Toto's many years with Circus Benneweis in the Copenhagen Circus Building.

 

 

After the clowns, there was magic in the ring with the Hungarian illusionist Christofer Eötvös and his assistants. He was also at Arena in 2025, but with different illusions than the ones he presents this year.

 


Magic from Hungary. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 

The next artist was the young Alfons Donnert with diabolo. He is the seventh generation of the famous Hungarian circus family.

 


Alfons Donnert. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 

Next, the clowns were back, this time dressed as artists from the old days.

 


Jimmy pumps up Michael

 

Can a potpourri of popular Danish songs be part of a circus performance? At least it is in this year's Arena performance, where the hosts Bubber and Malene Qvist sing.

 


Duo Bubber & Malene. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 

The last act before the interval was Kelly Folco. First on a low monocycle, where she jumped up and down a staircase. Then on a higher monocycle, where she used her foot to throw cups and saucers onto her head. And finally on a 15-wheeled bicycle, which she slowly rode around the ring. According to Circus Arena, she is the only female artist to master this trick.

 


Cup thrown from foot to head. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 


Kelly and her 15-wheeled bicycle

 

Circus Arena's signature tune is the song Circus is in town. Performed over the years by several people, including Benny Berdino, Peter Belli and Dario Campeotto. In this year's Arena performance, the song is a duet between Malene Qvist and Bubber. The song opened the second part of the performance.

 

Then came two of the Donnert family's acts: first a poetic pas de deux on horseback. Then the family's jockey act. Among other things, it involved a rider doing a backwards somersault. First on horseback and then from horseback to the back of a horse running behind. The act earned them a bronze clown in Monte Carlo in 2013. Later that year they were with Circus Benneweis. This is the first time since 2013 that we have seen them in Denmark.

 


Pas des deux on horseback. Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 


Backward somersault on horseback. Press photo from Circus Arena

 

While the carpet was being laid in the ring, the clowns and some female artists threw large balloons onto the grandstands, where the audience pushed them back.

 

Last year, the Danish Circus Award named Gabriel Dell’acqua talent of the year. This year, he has his 10-year-old little sister with him in the ring. He shows excerpts of his handstand number on a high pedestal, while his little sister on a lower pedestal shows a hand-balancing routine during which she manipulates and holds a football-seized ball with her legs and feet. An impressive act.

 

 

Gabriel and Sara

 

Leonardo and Vita Costache have been with Arena since 2017. Their specialty is perch numbers and aerial acts using mouth bits. The act they are showing this year is a newly developed aerial act with a giant spider web, where the spider Leonardo tries to catch the butterfly Vita. At one point she hangs from the spider web using her mouth bit, while he hangs from her foot using his mouth bit. Probably the most spectacular act in the performance.

 


It must take strong teeth! Press photo from Circus Arena

 

Now the clowns Jimmy and Michael were back. This time with the funnel routine, which not least the clown José Michel and Mrs. Giulia are known for.

 


Jimmy got very wet! Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm

 


The audience in the ringside chairs on the right in the tent got a shower!

 

The last act in the performance was Azzario and Medini. Quincy Azzario is best known for her handstand act, which last year won her the award for best act of the year in Denmark and who previously, when she had her sister as a partner, won her a silver clown in Monte Carlo. She is daughter of the clown José Michel and his wife Giulia. Quincy's boyfriend Rubel Medini is known for his rola bola act. The two have now teamed up to create a brand-new act, where Rubel, stands on a rola board and carries Quincy head-to-head and arm to head. The act ends with Rubel walking down a staircase while Quincy stands in a headstand on his head. However, there was an additional trick, see photo below. It is an impressive act and is certainly a candidate for one of the prestigious awards at next year's circus festival in Monte Carlo.

 


Tread carefully! Press photo from Circus Arena. Photographer Lise Kokholm.

 

 

He doesn't carry his girlfriend on his hands, but head-to-head.

Quincy in a handstand on a rollaboard which Rubel balances on his head

At the end of the premiere of the 2½-hour performance, Hanne and Benny Berdino came to the ring and received well-deserved tribute.

 

 

23 March 2026

 

Jacob Wendt Jensen: Dansk Cirkus - nostalgia og nutid” ("Danish Circus - nostalgia and present").

★★★★★★

Publisher Helmin Publishing 2026. Coffee table book of 400 pages including indexes and with more than 300 colourful illustrations. Width 25 cm, height 31½ cm, thickness 3½ cm. Reviewed by Ole Simonsen. Available in bookstores and at the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Copenhagen, and from the publisher.

 

 

When the journalist and author Jacob Wendt Jensen contacted me a few years ago and told me that he had acquired a number of photos from the estate of Ole Ege and now wanted to write a book about the circus, I expected an easy-to-read and quickly written book without significant research.

 

I became wiser.

 

Jacob Wendt Jensen has put an enormous amount of work into the book and has done thorough research. He has visited more than 30 people from the circus world, found lots of interesting photos and spent time and effort finding out what a picture represents and when it was taken. He has worked on the project for several years, while also writing other books. In total, Jacob estimates that he has spent half a year working on the circus book.

 

The result of his efforts and care is impressive. We have to go back more than 50 years to find a circus book of comparable quality.

 

As the experienced author that he is, he has also taken care that the book, despite weighing more than 2 kilos, is not “heavy reading”. And with the assistance of his son Frederik Wendt Moesgaard, who is a graphic artist, he has created a book that is more than elegant in terms of graphics.

 

The book is not just written for the enjoyment of circus friends, but for everyone who is interested in live entertainment. Including, of course, the many who visit one or more Danish circuses every year.

 

The book is richly illustrated. Not just with Ole Ege's photos, but also with photos from the Circus Museum's archive, the Benneweis family archive and private collections.

 

The first chapter of the book is about Danish circus history and is written by Mikkel Knudsen, who is curator of the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Copenhagen. This is followed by 15 chapters with titles such as "A circus venue is a small community", "When the tent has to be put up", "Children in the circus" and "Artists and other equilibrists" and "Hard competition for ticket sales".

 

Several circuses have been given their own chapter: Circus Miehe, Circus Schumann, Circus Benneweis, Circus Dannebrog and Circus Arena. Other circuses – both existing circuses and circuses no longer on tour – get a few pages of mention inserted between the chapters.

 

There are also sections with reproductions of a number of circus posters and circus programs. And from the source of inspiration, Ole Ege's collection, a number of photos have of course been reproduced.

 

The many photos make the book interesting also for those who not are familiar with the Danish language.

 

Let's hope that the book not only gets many readers, but also inspires the readers to go to the circus. "Preferably already in the spring," as Jacob Wendt Jensen writes in his foreword.

 

 

20 March 2026

 


At a reception on 20 March at the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Copenhagen, the journalist and author Jacob Wendt Jensen presented his latest book "Dansk Cirkus - Nostalgi og nutid" (Danish Circus - Nostalgia and Present). A coffee table book of 400 pages and with well over 370 photos. The book is about both Danish circuses which still are on the roads, and about circuses which many Danes remember, but not are touring any more. The book is based on more than 30 interviews with circus people, etc. An impressive book, which you can read a review of here on this page on next week's update. The many photos make the book interesting also for those who not are familiar with the Danish language.

 


 

Museum curator Mikkel Knudsen, who wrote the book's section on Danish Circus history, welcomed to the reception



Jacob Wendt Jensen told about the book's history, which started when he acquired a lot of circus photos from the estate of the late Ole Ege. This inspired him to write a book about circuses.

 

 

16 March 2026

 

Circus Rhodin. The small Swedish Circus Rhodin starts the season in Åkarp in the southern part of Sweden on April 12. On April 19 at 1 pm & 4 pm you can see them in Malmö at the Mobilia shopping centre. The dates are subject to changes.

 

As in previous years, Diana Rhodin calls her performance Circus as at Grandfather's time. This year's performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes with a 15-minute interval.

 


The performance is presented by Diana Rhodin

 

In this year's performance you will meet:

 

Laura Savolaine, who is born in Tampere, Finland. She performs both with hula hoop and om tight wire. She was trained first in Sorin Circus in her hometown of Tampere and then at the Sasak artist training in Lahti and at the University of Arts in Stockholm. She has, among other places performed in the large Finnish Circus Finlandia in 2022. Click here to watch a video clip of her performance in Circus Finlandia.

 

Anniina Elina Tuokkola also comes from Finland. She shows a poetic act in arial straps and a diabolo number.

 

Gediminas Maldanis comes from Lithuania. He presents a handstand act, where he raises himself 4 meters up. He also has an entrée in Washington Trapeze

 

Circus director Diana Rhodin presents her playful dogs – little stars who charm everyone.

 

 

The central character in the performance is again this year the Bulgarian clown Dimo.

 

 

 

Ticket prices are 240 SEK on benches and 280 SEK on ringside chairs, corresponding to approx. 23 and 27 Euro. 165 and 195 DKK. For children up to 15 years, the prices are at bit lower. Children under 2 years old are free if they sit on the lap of an adult.

 

 

12 March 2026

 

Circusland will be closed in 2026. The theme park Circusland in the winter quarter of Circus Arena in Aaslev opened gradually in 2006 and has since 2009 been open during the summer holidays and often also during the winter and autumn holidays. Originally, there were several shows every day and many animals: sea lions in a pool that was larger than the one in Copenhagen Zoo, as well as horses, zebras, alpacas, dromedaries, goats, pigs and elephants. There was also the possibility of pony riding, as well as a large playground and a circus museum.

 


The sea lion pool in Circusland. Photo from 2011

The entrance to Circusland October 2017. Photo: Jacob Boas Leitisstein

 

In recent years, the animals have been gone: legislation introduced a ban against circus acts with elephants and sea lions, and Circus Arena chose to get rid of both elephants, sea lions and other animals and instead engage artists with animals for the touring circus. In return, Circusland got a long list of fairground rides such as carousels and roller coasters. The sea lion pool was covered and used for magic shows. There were also approx. 45-minute performances in Circus Landino as well as children's shows. In the summer season, they had a number of open-air concerts.

 

However, the number of visitors to Circusland has been disappointing in recent years. For this reason, the Berdino family has decided to keep Circusland closed this year and concentrate on the operation of the touring Circus Arena.

 

 

 

11 March 2026

 

Distribution of state subsidies to circuses. The Danish circuses were included in the Parliament’ Finance Act for 2026 and will receive 5 million DKK in subsidy each year in the years 2026, 2027 and 2028. 5 million DKK is equivalent to approximately 670,000 Euro.

 

At a meeting of the Danish Parliament's Finance Committee 5 March, they decided how the 5 million DKK in state subsidies to Danish circuses will be distributed in 2026:

 

Circus Arena 2.0 million DKK

 

Circus Baldoni 1.0 million DKK

 

Circus Arli 0.6 million DKK

 

Circus Mascot 0.8 million DKK

 

Circus Krone 0.4 million DKK

 

Circus Solvej 0.2 million DKK

 

In 2024, the subsidy was distributed as follows:

 

Circus Arena: DKK 1.8 million

 

Circus Baldoni: DKK 0.8 million DKK

 

Zirkus Nemo: 0.8 million DKK

 

Circus Arli: 0.4 million DKK

 

Circus Mascot: 0.6 million DKK

 

Circus Trapez: 0.4 million DKK

 

Circus Krone: 0.2 million DKK

 

Zirkus Nemo has since gone bankrupt. And this year there was no money for Circus Trapez. In return, the very small Circus Solvej has received 0.2 million DKK.

 

There was no subsidy in 2025.

 

 

10 March 2026

Circus Trapez 2026. They write (my translation):

 

It is with pride that we can welcome you to Circus Trapez's 10th anniversary this year and this year's performance "Aldrig Nok" (Never enough).

 

True to tradition, we have put together a performance that is aimed at the whole family, and this year offers fantastic balancing act on Rola Bola, fast-paced hula hooping, fire show, diabolo artist, a breathtaking roller-skating act, cute animals and of course funny clowning.

 

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you all to this year's anniversary performance.

 

Circus Trapez has its national premiere in Kolding on Friday, April 10th, with dress rehearsal on April 8th and 9th. Ticket prices this year are DKK 240 (approximately 32 Euro) for adults and DKK 170 (approximately 23 Euro) for children under 12 years of age.

 

Circus Trapez has its “roots” in Isabella Enoch Sosman's Dinnershow Trapeze and the winter circus performances that she has presented in a number of indoor arenas in Jutland since 2014. In the summer of 2014, Circus Trapez was based in Madsby Play Park in Fredericia. As a touring circus, Circus Trapez first hit the road in 2016. Due to the corona, there was no actual tour in 2020, but they did have some short performances in Madsby Play Park, at nursing homes and during the autumn holidays in Arrild Ferieby. In 2021, they had a number of open-air performances that were not affected by corona restrictions. From 2022, they have performed in tents. However, there have also been performances in sport halls etc. as well as open-air performances and special performances for nursing homes.

 

Circus Trapez was previously run as a single proprietor firm owned by Bernhard Kaselowsky. Bernhard was declared bankrupt in December last year.

 

Circus Trapez is currently run by Cirkus Trapez production by Isabella Enoch Sosman.

 

Circus Trapez has not yet announced the names of the performers in this year's performance.

 

 

10 March 2026

 

The Swedish Circus Brazil Jack opens the season on 3 April at the Mill Square next to Malmöhus Castle in Malmö. Approx. a quarter of an hour's walk from Central Station in Malmö. It is Sweden's largest circus. The performance lasts approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes incl. 20-minute break. The tickets cost from 285 to 505 SEK (approx. 27 to 47 Euro. Slightly cheaper for children and retired peersons.

 

Circus Brazil Jack writes:

 

Come with us into the world of the circus – Circus Brazil Jack 2026! Get ready for a new year of wonder! Soon the carriages will roll into your city with a brand new, animal-free show that offers joy, excitement and memories for a lifetime.

 

This year we are transforming the circus tent into a glittering dream world where anything is possible. Experience nerve-wracking acrobatics high under the dome, balancing art that defies all the laws of nature and comedy that will make both young and old roll over with laughter.

 

It is spectacular and fast-paced – an exciting show where the whole family can gather and dream away together. Under the leadership of Trolle Rhodin, the fourth-generation circus director, the legacy lives on with a passion that is felt in every breath.

 

As the world's oldest traveling circus, we are a unique example of how talent and love of the arts can create a true circus dynasty. A warm welcome to a magical moment for all ages!

 

Circus Brazil Jack has not been on tour in all seasons since 1899. The current Circus Brazil Jack was established in 1982 by Trolle Rhodin (1917-1977) and his children Trolle JR, Carlo and Diana. It was later taken over by Trolle JR and his wife Carmen. Today, their son Trolle III runs Cirkus Brazil Jack.

 

Circus Brazil Jack has not yet announced the names of the artist for this year's show.

 

6 March 2026

 

Show with young magic talents

 

Monday, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31 at 11 a.m., the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Copenhagen together with Magic Circle Denmark, invites you to a unique show, where the well-known Danish magician Anders Lilleøre will present new young talents and test his magical abilities himself. The ticket to the show also gives access to the museum

 


Anders Lilleøre. Press photo from the Circus Museum

 

 

4 March 2026

 

Circus and circus bands. Years ago, most circuses had an orchestra with somewhere between 2 and 8 musicians. More and more circuses have today switched to using pre-recorded music. Something many artists prefer, because they are then 100% sure that the accompanying music is exactly how they want it.

 

Last year, only two Scandinavian circuses, the Danish Circus Arena and the Swedish Circus Olympia, had a real circus band. At Arena, there were 6 musicians in the bandstand. At Olympia, there were 4 musicians. At Circus Baldoni, a drummer supplemented the pre-recorded music.

 

This year, Swedish Circus Olympia will be the only Scandinavian circus to have a live band. Circus Arena is switching to using pre-recorded music, supplemented by a drummer.

 

Europe's largest circus, the German Circus Krone, has used pre-recorded music in their tent performances for many years.

 

 

2 March 2026

 

The Norwegian Circus Arnardo has its season opening Kristiansand on March 12. The performance run for approximately 90 minutes and is without intermission. Director Are Arnardo writes (my translation):

 

Circus Arnardo is back with an international show where classic and modern artists fill the ring to give the audience a fantastic experience.

 

– Once again, we can welcome our dear audience to our wonderful world, where everyday life is put on hold, and where laughter and joy can prevail, says circus director Are Arnardo.

In this year's circus show, the circus director has a luggage packed with joy and experiences. A variety show that creates both much laughter, amazement and a wow factor.

 

– Our task is to delight and impress, and this will happen in our magical universe, within our tent. Because a visit to us will create both memories and joy for young and old, says Are, who is now visiting his audience with Arnardo’s season number 77.

 

– We are all looking forward to welcoming our audience and doing as my grandfather said; “The greatest joy you can have is making others happy,” Are Arnardo says.

 


The Arnardo family: the son Arne, the parents Paola and Are and the daughter Shannon. Press photo from Circus Arnardo

 

The participating artists in this year's performance are:

 

Chiara Boldini – aerial act in a «crystal chandelier»

 

Shannon Folco Arnardo – foot juggler with blankets. She is also the head of Circus Arnardo's show ballet. Shannon Folco Arnardo is 23 years old and the 4th generation of the Arnardo family.

 

Clowns Duo Rossi (Yann and Alexandra Rossi)



Yann and Alexandra Rossi. Yann previously performed together with his brother Hector under the name Rossyanns clowns. Press photo from Circus Arnardo

 

Kevin Probst's dogs. He also has an act with parrots. Kevin Probst was last time with Arnardo in 2024.

 


Kevin Probst with parrots in 2024. Photo: Thorbjørn Klæbo Flo

 

Petr Smaha – tempo juggler from the Czech Republic

 

Ignacio Ramos – unicycle, where he jumps on podiums and juggles with hats etc.

 

 


Ignacio Ramos. Press photo from Circus Arnardo.

 

Arne Otto Luigi Folco Arnardo – diabolo. He is 26 years old and named after his great-grandfather, the Circus King Arne Arnardo.

The director couple Are & Paolas with a completely newly developed magic and illusion act.

 

 

 

2 March 2026

 

The Norwegian Circus Merano has its national premiere in Frederikstad on Friday, March 13. This year's performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.

 

In this year's performance, you will meet, among others:

 

Juggler Francesco Pellegrini. He comes from Italy and bounces his juggling balls down onto a podium.

 


Francesco Pellegrini. Press photo from Circus Merano

 

Romanian Marius has two acts: chair balance and tissue

 

Robi Berousek has two acts: one where he juggles tennis rackets and one with ladder balance. He has had several seasons with Danish Circus Arena, most recently in 2024, and a single season with Circus Dannebrog.

 

Gabor Mayer and his partner Adam come from Hungary and present a knock-bout table act and a breakdance act under the name Artist of Dance. Gabor also performed at Danish Circus Baldoni in 2024 and at the Swedish Circus Brazil Jack 2025. In both circuses he had two partners.

 

 


Gabor and partner. Press photo from Circus Merano

 

Gabor's girlfriend Lily takes spectators into a dream world with soap bubbles.

 

The veteran clown Francesco (Francis Brunaud) is back at Merano. Danes know him from several seasons at Circus Benneweis, most recently in 2005. Swedes have met him at both Circus Brazil Jack, Circus Maximum and Circus Scott. He was born in Paris in 1950 and made his debut as a clown in 1978. Since then, he has performed in a number of leading circuses over the world.

 

 


The recurring character of the Merano performance is the poetic clown Francesco (Francis Brunaud), photographed here with an entrée from the grandstands at Circus Maximum in 2017. Danish circusgoers met him at Benneweis in 1995, 1996, 2004 and 2005.

26 February 2026

Norwegian Cirkus Merano 2026. Circus owner Knuth Dahl writes on Facebook that Circus Merano will have its national premiere in Frederiksstad on Friday, March 13. Frederiksstad is their regular premiere city, where they had their very first performance on April 18, 1975. For Knuth, Friday the 13th is a lucky day! Knuth Dahl adds:

My two grandsons Kevin and Mathias, who have become die-hard Merano fans, are of course there when the tent is put up and the rehearsals start in early March. My son Knut Andre has also become an important part of the Merano universe.

Circus Merano took a break from 2015 to 2024, but was on tour again in 2025.

 

   


Cirkus Merano's tent is from 2025. It has a diameter of 28 meters and room for 650 spectators. Photos: Thorbjørn Klæbo Flo

 

 

24 February 2026

 

Eddy Carello. The juggler Eddy Carello was among the performers in Circus Trapez winter circus. Jørgen Lorenzen saw the very last winter performance of the year on February 22 at 3 pm in Hald Ege sports centre. He writes (my translation):

 

There are many who over the years have enjoyed seeing the juggler Eddy Carello. He performed in Circus Dannebrog in 2006 and 2011 and has since performed for several seasons in Enoch's Circus Show in Odense's Rosengaardcentre. Where he actually had his Danish debut in 2004 in the Enoch family's Circus Kenny.

 

Eddy Carello is a versatile tempo juggler who, in addition to balls and clubs can juggle with footballs - and objects of different shapes and sizes.

 

His special trick is where he is a drummer - and instead of drumsticks he uses balls that he throws at the cymbals or drums. And occasionally the balls mix with ping pong balls, which he hides in his mouth – and sends off so that they fall into the rhythm – to land in his mouth again.

 

 


All photos smartphone photos, taken by Jørgen Lorenzen

 

His career is classic for many good artists. When age begins to set its natural limits for strength and reaction ability, the artist slides over to be a clown. Comedy steps up next to artistic skill – and takes over.

That's what's happening to Eddy Carello. He's on his way to be a clown, and with his extensive ring experience it seems possible.

 

This year we've seen him in Circus Trapez circus' winter performances.

 

He has – yet – no makeup, but his costume points in the direction of the humorous. What do we see? A vagabond? A medieval jester? A figure from Shakespeare's time? A timeless prankster? A simple farmer who has come in with the 4-train?

 

 

There are so many interpretations and development possibilities, and there is no doubt that he tries out the possibilities – and chooses what he is most comfortable with. Along the way, he shows his skills as a juggler and balance artist – and emerges with a completely new discipline, where he puts spinning tops into play – and makes them walk along a string. And he uses the interaction with the audience, where the audience, so to speak, becomes the prop which the artist works with. A difficult discipline, because you never know in advance what the prop will be like in the particular performance that is going on.

 

His old act with the drum kit has not changed. This is also evident in the fact that here he takes off his comic costume and performs in his old, candy-coloured suit. But here too, he makes ends meet. A clown should balance on the edge of the grotesque. The madness should lurk somewhere in the corner of the eye – but must never take over. It is a means of humour, of admiration: that is how life can be, and why has it become so sad, serious and burdensome, when it could just as well be poetic, humorous and magical and full of laughter and joy?

 

In glimpses you see Eddy Carello working with the grotesque and the funny, which for a moment throws the rule-bound, serious and learned out of the way. That is what children can and do. That is what happens when we play and fantasize and dream. Because who on earth had the crazy idea to replace drumsticks with balls and ping pong balls that fly out of and into the mouth? The clown came up with that idea – and passed it on to the juggler. Who can now give it back.

 

It will be exciting to follow Eddy Carello's further path – on the way to the clown and on the way to yet another addition to the art of the ring.

 

Eddy Carello and Stefan Dvorak, who were also among the performers in Trapez winter circus

 

 

23 February 2025

 

Theatre performance about Danish born trapeze star La Norma.

La Norma – born Norma Nielsen in Storegade in Randers in Denmark on February 9, 1926 – became an international circus star at the age of 15. Her journey took her from Randers to the great American circus environment, where she performed in some of the world's biggest shows, was a stand-in for Betty Hutton in the film The Greatest Show on Earth and was honoured in the circus city Sarasota, Florida.

 

To honor the now 100-year-old former trapeze star, Randers Teater is creating a performance where you will meet the actors Lisbeth Knopper, Bue Wandahl and Rasmus Monrad. Direction: Jacob Stage. Script: Anna Panduro. Music: Jacob Venndt

 

The performance can be seen on September 1 and 2, 2026 in the theatre’s AP Hall, which has room for 110 spectators. The plan is to send the performance on tour in 2027.

 

 

19 February 2026

 

Baldoni's winter circus. Since 2016, Circus Baldoni has produced winter performances for Ishøj Shopping Mall every year in week 8. However, there was no winter circus in 2021, when the corona was ravaging.

 

This year too, Baldoni presents performances in Ishøj from February 13 to 21. Performances which attract many customers to the shopping centre.

 

This year's 30-minute-long performance was opened by the bicycle equilibrists Duo Santos (Bettina Nina & Jacob), who were also in Baldoni's Christmas circus 2025. They both juggled and showed acrobatics on two- and one-wheeled bicycles. At the very end, Jacob rode a tiny bike.

   

   

 

The next act was the clown Berty Engelbert Balder with an ostrich that wouldn't jump through a ring, but wanted popcorn which the audience should throw into its mouth. Years ago, Berty worked together with his brothers Christian and Sidney. But more than 10 years ago, the brothers chose to go solo, as it became increasingly difficult to find circuses that were willing to (or could afford) to hire a clown trio. In recent years, we have seen Berty Balder in Circusland and in Enoch's Circus Show.

 

 

 

After a short interlude with René Baldoni and the lion Leonardo (a ventriloquist’ doll), the juggler Oliver Berdino entered the ring. He is son of Suzanne Berdino and one of Benny Berdino's grandchildren. He showed a nice juggling act with up to 7 balls and 5 clubs.

 

 

   

  

The next act was the foot juggler Otilia (Otilia Kristina Gasca), who is married to Berty Balder. She is daughter of Fatime Horwart, whose fine act with cats we saw at Baldoni in 2017 and will see again in the upcoming season. Otilia proved to be an excellent foot juggler with scarves, cylinders and hula hoops. By the way: this is not her first season with Baldoni: as a very young girl, she performed an act in aerial hoop in their 2006 performance.

 

       

 

Next, Berty Balder came back to the ring, this time with a run-in where he received applause in a trash can and ended by balancing a full wine glass on his forehead. With a little cheating – he is a clown!

 

 

 The last act of the show was a reunion with Duo Santos with the roller-skating act we also saw in Baldoni's Christmas circus. Most roller-skating artists perform on a podium, but Duo Santos chooses to perform it on a circular plate placed in the ring.

 

   

Finale

 

 

 

18 February 2026

 

Circus Olympia 2026. The Swedish Circus Olympia opens the season on March 28 in Oscarström, Sweden. They write (my translation):

 

42 years ago, Herbert and Henrika Bengtsson started Circus Olympia and in 2026, Cirkus Olympia, which has its winter quarters in Drängsered in Halland, will embark on a six-month anniversary tour through Sweden. 170 locations will be visited from Smygehuk in the south to Södertälje in the north and they plan to have 200 performances.

 

Cirkus Olympia's director, Niklas Bengtsson, says that this year's production combines innovation and tradition and the performance is more produced than in previous years, with combinations of song and music and exciting circus acts. "Our goal is to be the leading classical circus in Sweden and we are now really only competing with ourselves. Every year we try to raise the artistic level and create a performance that our regular audience experiences as unique and contemporary. We want our performance to be intergenerational and that children, parents and grandparents should be amazed and laugh at the same time, but not necessarily at the same thing. This creates community."

 

The Bengtsson family has built Circus Olympia from nothing to a large modern entertainment company. Every year they present a completely new international circus program. Circus Olympia is a highly international workplace and this year they have engaged exciting groups of artists from 13 different countries. They also present their own horses and dogs that the Bengtsson family has trained from scratch and which they look after as family members.

 


Cirkus Olympia's tent has a diameter of 28 meters and seats 600 persons. Press photo from Cirkus Olympia. Photographer Linda Himsel


A circus performance is a collective achievement, but it is important for Cirkus Olympia always to offer some exciting new thing that has never been shown in Sweden before. The magical illusion show Flash Back from Spain is the largest production Circus Olympia has ever presented in its ring and includes fantastic magic with a large ensemble.

 

No circus without a clown and this year Clown Tumpy from Chile is back to make children of all ages laugh.

The clown Tumpy was also at Circus Olympia in 2024 and 2025. Press photo from Cirkus Olympia. Photographer: Emelie Kindblad

 

The young juggler Antoine Cartier from France captivates the audience at a breakneck pace in a genre called Diablo juggling. He was recently engaged in Noveau Cirque Zavatta. Duo Estrida presents a completely new aerial number in the ring. The duo consists of Frida Evelina Persson from Sweden, who trained in Spain, and Ester Viljanen from Finland, who both previously worked as solo aerial acrobats with us. Now they have created a joint act for this year's season. They both also have an important role in tying the performance together with singing together with guitarist and singer Paul Szabó, the clown Tumpy and our band. Skating Chavez from Portugal roller skates at a high pace and uses gravity for their acrobatics. The Segura Sisters from Spain offer hand-to-hand acrobatics, where the extremely strong lower partner lifts his sister hand-in-hand, while she performs beautiful acrobatic tricks. Portuguese Kevin Chavez is a daredevil rola bola artist who balances on boards, on rollers, on the saddle of his motorcycle.

 

Of course, Circus Olympia's own horses and dogs also have their place in this year's performance. This year, Niklas Bengtsson presents his beautiful tinker horses and Henrika Bengtsson performs with the Circus Patrol, i.e. her mischievous and playful dogs.

 


 Henrika Bengtsson and her dogs are a permanent and indispensable feature of Circus Olympia's performances. Press photo from Circus Olympia. Photographer: Emelie Kindblad

 

 

17 February 2026

 

Danish born trapeze star La Norma's 100th birthday on February 9 was celebrated at the club Showfolks of Sarasota. Well over 100 people showed up to celebrate her on the day. Including the Danish author Aase Thomassen, who wrote the book La Norma – Sorrow, Longing and Success – a Danish Trapeze Star's Path to International Fame, and her two oldest grandchildren. La Noma was happy to have visitors from Denmark. It caused quite a stir in the company that Aase and the grandchildren had made the long journey solely for the purpose of participating in the celebrations. With him, Aase Thomassen had a greeting from theater director Peter Westphael from Randers Teater, who congratulated and announced that Randers Teater would celebrate the 100th anniversary by staging a performance about La Norma on September 1 and 2.

 


Tino Wallenda from The Flying Wallendas welcomed. Both he and his wife Olinka Wallenda-Zoppe had made an incredible effort to give Norma Fox an unforgettable celebration, and it was unforgettable in every way. In his speech to the birthday girl, Tino said, among other things: "There were a few performers of the day who did trapeze, that were unique, and she had a unique style, presentation, and also dynamic tricks, but of course, personally, what stood out to me was her warmth towards me and the fact that she took me in as her son."

 

La Norma and Aase Thomassen

 

Click here to see The Observer's report from La Norma's birthday party.

 

 

14 February 2026

 

Circus Mascot winter performance. Jørgen Lorenzen saw the performance at the Herning Centre on 13 February at 2pm and writes (my translation):

 

Traditions are good. And a firm tradition is circus Mascot, which visits the Herning Centre every year during the school children’s winter holidays.

 

And then you think: we've seen them before. But no, as in every good tradition, there is something ritualistic: it's the same thing that happens – and yet it's completely new, as if you're seeing it for the first time.

 

The clown Gulio is warming up – and can't find his way into or out of the ring. The curtain is teasing and getting in the way. The children – probably 300 – squeal with joy and come up with encouraging shouts and calls, before finally succeeding – also getting his bottom out.

 

It was probably the Danish author Per Højholt who said that a clown should create great and precise anticipation. You know what's coming – you look forward to it and live with the joy of anticipation. And it makes the experience even greater that Gulio – disguised as an overgrown big boy – seems to be having the most fun himself. Clowning around, that's what it's called when it reaches the audience, who laugh and live with the anticipation.

 

And it was Philip Schumann who said that a good artist should show what he wants to do  – seconds before it happens. And such it is here. And especially when you see the juggler, Jonathan Zeuthen. He is dressed in black and has two acts. First with diabolos and then with a classic, stylish and flawless juggling act with clubs and balls. Genuine, beautiful, because the props are so central – a tool in the juggler's hands. You feel safe, and the great and precise expectation is met and fulfilled to the letter.

 

 

Marianne's dog revue is a must in a Mascot performance. To the great delight of everyone who has a dog at home, and who has probably tried to get the dog to "perform" themselves - and found out that it is not that easy.

 

 

 

Juliya presents a hula hoop act. In a very beautiful, white suit, which contrasts nicely with Jonathan Zeuthen's stylish, discreet and dark suit.

 

 

 

And Gulio is both a sword swallower, a wizard and a friend of an unruly, popcorn-eating and cheeky ostrich.

 

A half-hour of good, genuine, live circus. Without frills and gimmicks. Alternating between laughter and amazement. The real thing, which meets the great, precise expectation.

 

Everything is new - and everything seems somehow familiar, recognized and familiar. Like the good ritual. Which is the backbone of any good circus performance.

 

Daniel Deleuran keeps the pot boiling – with short, precise comments and as a “bandmaster” with the many buttons that must be controlled to wrest the right melodies and sounds from the sound machine at the right times.

13 February 2026

 

Circus Arli 2026. The season starts on April 4 next to the Mill Hill in the Copenhagen suburb Fløng. In addition to Martin, Bettina and Alexander Arli, you can look forward to meet:

 

From Spain Michael Olivares - comedian with several entrées. Last year he had great success in the Finnish Circus Finlandia. He comes from the Nicol family.

 


Michael Olivares

 

His wife Helena Polach comes from the Czech Republic and is a football juggler. The Danes met her at Circus Benneweis in 2012, where she stylishly and elegantly juggled first three, then four and finally five footballs.

Helena Polach

 

Also from Spain come the Guerrero family, who do springboard acrobatics and the Segura Sisters, who show aerial acrobatics with hair hang.

 


Two members of the Guerrero family

 

From Latvia come Helena Vasiljeva and Sergejs Polupans. The versatile artists have been with Circus Arli for several years. This year they are doing a laser show and a new version of their bucket act.

 

 

11 February 2026

 

Circus Trapez Winter Circus 2026. Finn Stendevad saw the performance in Esbjerg on Tuesday, February 10, at 4 p.m. in the Blue Water Dock and writes (my translation):

 

Isabella Sosman and Bernhard Kaselowsky have always turned the corner of the large arena into a cozy little winter circus. The end wall of the hall and the part of its left side that was in use were well filled, the right side was sparsely occupied, but the ringside chairs around the ring were well filled.

 

Now for the performance:

 

In the ring there was a billiard table and a stand with some juggling clubs, disguised as champagne bottles.

The performance started with a charivari, where all the performers filled the ring. The old clown had a clapper box, in which he caught the audience's applause. He played on that until the juggler came up on the pool table and juggled billiard balls and later the clubs. He was a good tempo juggler. Excellent warm-up act that got the whole circus going.

 

Then came a young girl with a Beagle dog. The dog showed many tricks and jumps. Qualitatively fine little act.

 

The old clown, or should I say August, which is more accurate, performed a lot of different boomerangs. Elegant and with great skill.

 

Now a young girl performed the classic hula hoop act. You forgave her a few little kicks; she was too beautiful.

 

The juggler now came in and did the classic cigar box act with the three cigar boxes. It went pretty much perfectly, but now old August came in and did it with larger boxes and a wild pace. Perfect, until at the end he revealed that he had a string in the middle box.

 

Bella now came in and announced Auriol's old act from the Astley circus 250 years ago: Chair balance on four bottles. The juggler balanced up to 6 chairs on top of the original chair. Great act.

 

 

Joel Lutzny with chair balance

 

Now the beagle came in with a big sign in its mouth, which said 20 minutes interval.

 

The first act after the interval was the hula hoop girl with a solo trapeze act, in a kind of inverted imperial crown. Nice and sober act.

 


The girl in the chandelier was Nynne Hulsig Samuelsen, here photographed in the Swedish Circus Rhodin in April 2025.

 

Now Bella announced an ancient Japanese balance act. The old August put everything, small and large miniature umbrellas in rotation on walking sticks, fingers, hats, sword blades, etc. Good tempo act.

 

On top of this came a young artist with a fast-paced rola bola act. He balanced on a high tower, where he balanced on 6 small barrels and later on 6 stools/stairs.

 


Stefan Dvorak has just won junior silver in Monte Carlo for his rola bola act

 

The old August put on a terrific ball show juggling guitars, tennis balls and table tennis balls on various percussion instruments.

 

The performance ended with a charivari with a presentation of all the performers.

All in all, another excellent performance.

Bernhard Kaselowsky was present to take care of all the practicalities, but none of his animals were with him.

 

 

10 February 2026

 

Enoch’s Circus Show 2026. From 1984 until 2009, Haddy Enoch produced under the name Circus Kenny excellent winter and autumn holiday performances for the Rosengaardcentret Shopping Mall in Odense. The first years probably in cooperation with Kenn Anker Petersen. And with a 6-piece circus band.

 

In 2010 and 2011 there was no circus in Rosengaardcentret. But many of the customers in the shopping mall missed the performances, and since 2012 Haddy’s grandson Jimmy Enoch has produced winter circuses for the large Funen shopping centre. He has used the name Enoch’s Circus Show and presented a number of great performances with what in the circus world are called international top artists. But the live music has long time ago been replaced by pre-recorded music. Originally, the performances lasted an hour, but the shopping centre wanted slightly shorter performances, so this year’s performance lasts 40 minutes.

 

The set-up is still impressive: in addition to ringside chairs, a grandstand has been set up with room for about 150 guests and a light ring has been suspended from the ceiling with modern LED lights.

 

 

At the performances on Monday at 11 am and 2 pm, all seats were taken up to an hour before the performance started. There is no doubt that the circus performances attract many people to the Rosengaardcentret.

 

After a welcome with all the performers in the ring, this year's performance began with am act in the aerial hoop, performed by Samanta Lutzny.

 

   

 

Next came a classic clown entrée which people from Zealand know from Circus Arli: the hypnosis entrée, excellent performed by Jimmy Enoch and Alejandro (Alexander Arli). The children in the audience cheered!

 

         
 

Next came a nice act with two dogs, presented by Sabrina Lutzny with assistance from her husband Rene. The act ended with a third and very small dog running around the edge of the ring.

 

   

 

Now a juggler entered the ring: Jimmy's cousin David Sosman, whose specialty is bouncing balls down to the podium. Beautifully and elegantly performed.

 

   

 

Then Jimmy and Alejandro returned to the ring with the ghost entrée. It was shown in the same version as in Circus Arli: They were supposed to sit on two chairs and sing the famous opera Ude i Charlottenlund. Jimmy's 12-year-old daughter Emily came into the ring and told them that they were not allowed to sing there. And then they went over to the other side of the ring, because she hadn't forbidden them singing there! But no: Emily came into the ring and repeated her ban on singing and said that it didn't matter where they sat. And then they moved into the middle of the ring. "If you sing there, a ghost will come," Emily threatened. They didn't believe her. But a little ghost came, which especially scared Alejandro out of his wits. At the end of the entrée, it was revealed that it was Jimmy's 10-year-old son Jeremy, who was dressed as a ghost. The children in the audience cheered and joined in by warning Jimmy and Alejandro when the ghost appeared.

 


"Ude i Charlottenlund”

 

 


"You are not allowed to sing here!"

 

   


The ghost!

 

The last act in the show was the Lutzny family - Rene, Sabrina, son John and daughter Samanta - with a fast-paced cowboy show, which featured whip cracking, knife throwing and lasso swinging.

 


John Lutzny with whips

 

 

John and Rene Lutzny with lassoes

 


Rene Lutzny throwing knives

 


The Lutzny family is responsible for three of the six acts in this year's performance

 

Finally, all the artists came to the ring. Jeremy on a unicycle to live up to the Enoch family's reputation of always having a bicycle act – this year quite short – in their performances.

 


Finale with Jeremy on a unicycle

 

 

8 February 2026

 

Obituary: Conny Hende Lidal. The former trapeze artist and circus director Conny Hende passed away on February 8. She was 94 years old. For many years she performed in trapeze, etc. in a wide range of circuses. She also performed at markets, in fairs and in public parks. She inspired Irene Thierry, among others, to start in trapeze and was Irene's great idol.

 

She was among the participants when Erna Mundeling, together with her daughter Viola, tried to revive the old Circus Mundeling in 1986. Conny Hende was 54 years old at the time.

 

Like so many artists, she dreamed of having her own circus. In 1991, the dream came true: with the start of the season on April 9, she started Circus Scandinavia together with her husband Jørgen Hansen. The newly started circus had a truck, two trailers, two caravans and two artist families: Marianne and Jess Deleuran, who later started their own Circus Mascot and the gentleman thief Kenny Quinn and Mrs Joan. In addition, the Dutch Cossack rider Guido Leidelmeyer joined them.

 

The season was not good, but the couple managed to get Circus Scandinavia back on the roads in 1992, 1993 and 1994. In 1995, Circus Scandinavia was taken over by Conny Hende's son Poul Erik Lidal and boasted of being Denmark's 4th largest circus with over 20 employees. The season was the small circus's last.

 

Conny Hende Lidal tried to restart Circus Scandinavia in 2000 in cooperation with a circus from Bulgaria. It didn't work, and they were stranded somewhere in Jutland.

 

6 February 2026

 

La Norma 100 years. Tuesday, February 9 the Danish-born trapeze star La Norma (Norma Fox) can celebrate her 100-year birthday. Norma was born in Randers in 1926 as child no. 5 out of a crowd of 13 children. In the spring of 1940, Variety Maxim in Randers was visited by the artists Florita Sisters. However, they were not sisters, but mother and daughter. The mother, Emilie Altenburg, was looking for a young talent who could be trained to be part of the act. At a dance school she saw the 14-year-old Norma. Without involving Norma Emile Altenburg agreed with Norma's parents that she would take Norma as a trainee. And Norma was with short notice ordered to travel with Florita Sisters to Copenhagen, where she should have board and lodging and training.

 

Probably the parents believed that Emilie Altenburg would take good care of their daughter. The reality was different: Norma were virtually enslaved and got beatings if she questioned their rule or made mistakes during training.

 

The harsh conditions continued the following years. In autumn 1941, Norma got her debut at the Variety Maxim Randers. Almost 16 years old, she got under the stage name La Norma her international debut at the National Scala Variety in Copenhagen. Later during the war Mrs. Altenburg took her trainee first to Norway and then to Sweden, where La Norma worked in Circus Altenburg and in Circus Scott. After the war Mrs. Altenburg and Norma came to Denmark and toured in 1946 with Circus Belli. Here Norma met her spouse-to-be André Fox, and he gave her the courage to break out from the slave-like conditions.

 

Later, Norma and André went to France where La Norma performed on a trapeze suspended from the Eiffel Tower. The act was seen by John Ringling North, and Norma and André Fox got a contract with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. In 1949, La Norma had her US debut, and she and Andre Fox were with Ringling to and including 1951. In the Oscar-winning film "The Greatest Show on Earth", recorded in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, she was a stand-in for the lead female actor Betty Hutton in the trapeze scenes.

 


At St Armand’s Circle in Sarasota Beach, you can see the Circus Ring of Fame with bronze wagon wheel plaques for a number of famous artists, living as well as deceased. Among these is La Norma

 

From 1952 and until she stopped her artistic career, she performed in a number of other American circus. Today she lives as many other retired artists in Sarasota, Florida, where she trains young trapeze students. But in a more human way than the training she had herself!

 

Her life is described by the Danish author Aase Thomassen in the book La Norma - grief, loss and success - a Danish trapeze star's path to international fame. The book is in Danish, but enclosed is a CD with at page-to-page translation into English.

 

In 2021, DR television showed a documentary about La Norma under the title The fantastic story of the girl who wanted to fly. Aase Thomassen has visited La Norma several times, most recently in 2025, where they sat together and watched the documentary.

 


La Norma had several seasons with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey and was in the film The Greatest Show on Earth stuntman for Betty Hutton in several of the dangerous trapeze scenes. The photo is from Ringling's 1950 program. Click here to see a video clip from some of the La Norma’s acts.

 


La Norma with Aase Thomassen. Photo from 2019.

 

 

3 February 2026

 

New tent for Circus Solvej. The tiny Circus Solvej is owned by the young Victor Høeg Abrahamsen. It had its first season in 2023 and has since performed with a tent with room for approx. 60 spectators.

 

Victor Høeg Abrahamsen calls himself Denmark's youngest circus director. He is currently a teaching assistant at School Centre Hirtshals. But he tours with his tiny Circus Solvej for 4-5 weeks during the summer holidays. His ambition has always been to be able to live 100% of Circus Solvej and take it on tour from March to September.

 

For the upcoming season, he has invested in a brand-new Italian circus tent. The tent will be larger than the old one and will have two poles which will open up completely new possibilities in the ring – for example to be able to present aerial acts. The tent has a diameter of 11 m and will have room for between 130 and 150 spectators.

3 February 2026

Circus Agora 2026. The Norwegian Circus Agora has its national premiere in Bergen on March 12. Director Jan Ketil Smørdal promises "A completely new show! New artists! New tent!" and writes on Facebook that the new tent is "a modern circus tent without poles inside that gives a clear view from all seats".

 

In this year's performance you will meet

The aerial acrobats Yuriy & Edita Mamchych from Ukraine. Edita also performs with a hula hoop and Yuriy an act in aerial straps. The Danes experienced the couple in Circus Arli in 2019 and in Circus Trapez in 2022

 


Duo Mamchych in Circus Arli 2019. Edita is sister of juggler Alan Sulc.

Daniel Lamptey from Ghana with an act which combines fire, acrobatics and African rhythm. In 2024 he toured with the Swedish Circus Olympia.

Jan Ketil with his classic cup act.

 


Jan Ketil. Press photo from Circus Agora

Ponies and horses, presented by Jan Ketil and Peter Taylor respectively. Peter Taylor is best known for his comic dog act, which the Danes have seen several times in Benny Schumann's performances and which the Norwegians experienced last year in Circus Agora.

Ladder balance performed by Axel Gottani. He comes from Italy and was also with Agora in 2025.

Agora's Magic show

The clown of the year is Mathieu Dallant. He trained at Annie Fratellini's Circus School and has previously performed in the French Circus Arlette Gruss, the Swiss Circus Knie and the English Blackpool Tower Circus.

 

 

30 January 2026

 

Circus Baldoni 2026. Circus Baldoni writes (my translation):

 

 

In 2026, Circus Baldoni welcomes to our 25th season – and we celebrate with a true fireworks display of circus magic, laughter and impressive artistry. Look forward to a star-studded program with super talented artists, crazy clowns and, as something very special, a charming cat act that will make both children and adults smiling.

 

The entire performance is tied together by the charismatic ventriloquist Peter Nørgaard, who with a sure hand – and lots of humour – presents both the lion Leonardo and the dog Charlie on his arm and then he tries to get control of the “real” dinosaur that has strayed into the ring.

 

Humour and laughter are always the heart of Circus Baldoni, and in 2026 the laughs are turned up even more. José Michel returns with brand new, quirky and surprising acts, and the audience favourite Mr. Jumping is back on the trampoline – full of fun, speed and mischief.

 

In addition, you will see:

• Breathtaking roller-skating artists

• Nerve-wracking and elegant aerial tricks

• Fast-paced juggling with both hands and feet

• A sweeping and lightning-fast quick-change trick

 

As mentioned, Peter Nørgaard is back as ringmaster. A task he also held in 2021 and 2022.

 

In addition, you will meet Mr. Jumping (Paczo Plamen Metodiev) with his comic trampoline act, which we last time saw at Baldoni in 2017.

Mr. Jumping was first time with Baldoni in 2006. This photo is from 2011.

 

His wife Fatime Horwart present her nice act with cats, which the Danes last time saw at Baldoni in 2017.

 

 

In Circus Baldoni's upcoming performance, you can meet Fatime and her cats. This photo is from her performance at Baldoni in 2017. Photo: Rud Kofoed / Ajour Press

 

New in a Danish circus ring is Duo Crystal with roller skates and in aerial silk.

Duo Lagroni present a quick-change act. The female partner Claudia Bremlov also performs as a foot juggler. The Danes met her in Circus Arena in 2004. Her specialty is building a tall inverted pyramid of suitcase-shaped boxes on her feet.

Claudia Bremlov in Swedish Circus Olympia in 2011

 

Nandor Varadi and Diana Boiachin perform in aerial chandelier and with a comical version of the plate spinning act which they performed at the first few Baldoni-performances in 2025 before Rubel Medini came.

 

The clowns are Giullia and José Michel for the third year in a row. In 2024 and 2025 we experienced them with their formidable version of the funnel gag. But this year something new is needed. It will be an entrée with elements from a number of classic clown entrées, ending with the sandwich cake entree, where they throw many plates of whipped cream at each other's heads. An entrée that the Swedes in 2012 could see in Circus Brazil Jack. The entrée ends just like funnel gag with musical features. In addition, José Michel has some run-ins.

   

Michels at Brazil Jack 2012. At that time their late partner Kike was also part of the act.

 

Circus Baldoni has its national premiere in Hillerød on April 8th with dress rehearsals on April 5th and 6th.

 

 

28 January 2026

 

Obituary: Solveig Enoch. Solveig Enoch passed away peacefully on the afternoon of January 28. She was 88 years old. She was married to Haddy Enoch, who died in 2009. Haddy and Solveig travelled for many years all around the world as bicycle artists. The act was called 2 Haddies, but as the children grew up (Dennie, born 1955, Agnete Louise, born 1956, Isabella, born 1960 and Katja, born 1967) the children participated in the act, which then was called 4 Haddies or The Haddies.

 

Haddy had a dream of restarting the Enoch family's Circus Dannebrog, which had stopped in 1922. In 1977, he succeeded: Haddy and Solveig re-established Circus Dannebrog in a tent they had bought from Danish Circus Royal, which had stopped touring after the 1972 season.

 

The first years were difficult, but Circus Dannebrog soon became a first-class circus, calling itself the National Circus of Denmark. After Haddy Enoch's death, the operation was transferred to a limited liability company owned by Solveig Enoch. However, it was her and Haddy's four children who were responsible for the operation. But times became increasingly difficult for the circus, and Circus Dannebrog ceased operations after the 2016 season. Solveig, who had become slightly demented, spent her last years in the nursing home in Sommersted. She maintained her good humour and bright mind until the end and undoubtedly felt that she had had a good life.

 

Solveig and Haddy Enoch. Photo from 2005.

 

 

27 January 2026

 

Circus Charlie. Einar Trie tells that Circus Charlie will be performing in Aalborg Storcenter on January 8 and 15 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The cast is the same as in the four performances Circus Charlie presented in North Jutland halls at the end of November and beginning of December: in addition to Einar Trie, Gegee Ganbold, Oleksi Trunov and Lilje Bekhøj. But with slightly different acts than before Christmas, as the will be doing three shows.

 

 

Gegee and Oleksi. Photo: Anny Schaldemose

 

Einar Trie continues (my translation):

 

We will once in a while continue to have performances with the same cast.

 

Right now, training is underway here at the Circus Factory, as we have two artists living here who are part of Circus Safari in Austria. Circus Safari has just packed tents and equipment into containers, which are being sent to the USA, where they are now going on tour. The two artists here are some who previously worked in Circus Charlie, and who are now working on a new act for their US tour.

 

Einar Trie's Circus Charlie toured from 1988 to 2008. Einar Trie himself was the clown Charlie with the clarinet. Many of the participants came from the Baltic countries. Circus Charlie's tent has been at the Circus Factory in Salling since 2008, where Circus Charlie got winter quarters in 2004. At the Circus Factory in the disused Lindum dairy, Einar Trie is the driving force and the man behind the local children's and youth circus Salling Cirkus Kids, which also offers young talents training with professional artists as instructors during the winter season.

 

Since 2008, Circus Charlie has only had a few performances, sometimes as a one-man show. Instead, Einar Trie has spent time and energy at the Circus Factory. But now it looks like he might start Circus Carlie up again, however not with a regular tour.

 

 

 

23 January 2026

 

Winter circuses in Denmark. For most Danish circuses, the season begins in the latter half of March or early April.

 

However, there are some circuses which have winter performances. Either performances in a shopping mall with free admission for customers or in sport centres etc. where tickets must be paid for. Below is an overview of what you can see in Denmark in February:

 

Circus Trapez winter circus

 

Performs in Jutland indoor arenas from 6 to 22 February. The performers are:

 

Eddy Carello, drum juggling and comedy

Josefine Kaselowsky, pony and dog act

Nynne Hulsig Samuelsen, hula hoop and trapeze

Joel Lutzny, chair balance and billiard juggling

Stefan Dvorak rola bola.

 

In addition, the performance offers fun clowning.

Stefan Dvorak, who in February 2025 was among the performers in Enoch's Circus Show at the Rosengårdcentret in Odense, has just been among the performers at the circus festival in Monte Carlo, where he received junior silver. Press photo from Circus Trapez

 

Circus Panik (small family circus)

 

7 to 14 February: Cirkus Panik - Skjulhøj Allé 21, Vanløse, Copenhagen.

 

During the winter holidays, Cirkus Panik invites children and adults inside for a colorful, festive and thrilling circus experience in their circus building in Vanløse, Copenhagen. This year's winter performance "Mormor i hopla" is filled with energy, magic and classic circus charm for the whole family.

 

The audience can look forward to an exuberant show, where the queen of the air, Miss Zora, floats elegantly through the air and enchants the audience. The young and talented artist Jonathan Bendtsen impresses and amazes with his acts, while Poul Panik, together with Miss Tatiana, safely steers the antics through with lots of humour, magic and well-known circus chaos.

 

The performance is spectacularly rounded off with a legendary fire show, which puts a fiery end to an experience full of surprises and high energy. Along the way, bandmaster Jacob Kolkur provides the musical atmosphere with swinging rhythms and contemporary tones, which give the show extra life.

 

Enoch’s Circus Show

 

9 to 15 February: Rosengaardcentret shoping mall, Odense. Every day at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. You will meet the juggler and entertainer David Sosman, the clown and multi-artist Alexander Arli, bicycle acrobatics with Jimmy Enoch with his children Jeremy and Emily, aged 10 and 12, respectively, and the Spindler family with dogs, a cowboy show and an aerial act. Free admission.

From the finale of last year's performance

 

Circus Mascot Winter Circus

 

8 to 15 February: HerningCentret shopping mall. Monday to Friday at 11:00, 14:00 and 17:00 and weekends at 11:00 and 14:00. Among the performers in the approximately 30-minute performance are Marianne Deleuran and her dogs, clown Gulio and his daughter Juliya, and juggler Jonathan Zeuthen. Free admission.

 

 

 

In November and December 2025, the young Danish juggler Jonathan Zeuthen performed first in Baldoni's Christmas Circus and then in Malmö Winter Circus. Photo, taken by Jacob Boas Leitisstein, is from Baldoni's Christmas Circus.

 

Baldoni’s winter circus

 

14 and 16 to 21 February: Ishøj City Centre Shopping Mall, Copenhagen. Several daily performances. Free admission. The performers in the approximately 30-minute performance are the clown Berty Balder, the foot juggler Otilia, who is married to Berty, Duo Santus who was with Baldoni's Christmas circus with roller skates and a bicycle, and the juggler Oliver Berdino. René Baldoni is the ringmaster, undoubtedly assisted by the lion Leonardo (a ventriloquist’ doll).
 

   


Duo Santos - photos from Baldoni's Christmas circus. Photographer Jacob Boas Leitisstein

 

Winter holiday at the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Copenhagen

 

From Monday 9 February to Friday 13 February at 11, the audience can meet the fantastic Bonbon Family when the colourful artist family takes over the ring with their family-friendly circus show. Bonbon Family is a unique Danish circus family, known from some of Europe's largest circuses. The family's children, Julia and Joakim, perform side by side with their father, the clown Bonbon. Tickets for the show and museum cost 95 DKK for adults and 20 DKK for children. We recommend that you buy your tickets in good time here, as they may sold out on the day.

 


Bonbon, Julia, Joakim and Mrs. Tiina. From a performance at the Circus Museum in 2021

 

In both weeks 7 and 8, children and adults can participate in Circus Fun, where the museum's artists guide and inspire. Here you can try juggling, balancing and experience what it's like to be a real artist. Circus play takes place Monday to Friday from 12:30 to 14:30 and Sundays from 10:30 to 12, and the museum promises big smiles and fun challenges for everyone.

 

For families who also want to immerse themselves in and have some creative fun, the museum welcomes you to the creative workshop, where children can make magic hats, carnival masks and colourful pennants from old circus posters.

 

 

19 January 2026

 

 

The Monte Carlo Circus Festival is considered the most prestigious of the many circus festivals. This year it was held for the 48th time, and the following clowns were awarded gold, silver and bronze:

 

 


Photo from Circustime Switzerland

 

This year there was a Scandinavian member of the jury in Monte Carlo: Are Arnardo from the Norwegian Circus Arnardo.

16 January 2026

 

Two birthdays with a round figure

 

Jörgen Börsch turns 85. On January 18, Jörgen Börsch will turn 85. His baptismal certificate says Jørgen Børsch. But if you have international contacts, it is easier to write ö than ø. Jörgen's father ran a large men's clothing store in Hillerød. But Jörgen wanted something else, so his two older brothers took over the business.

 

As an amateur magician - Jorgano - he began selling his performance at the age of 15, accompanied by a singer and her little brother as a guitar-playing and singing "wonder boy" à lá Tommy Steele, and he also did a feature with 3 amateur magicians in a Benneweis performance in the Circus Building for Magic Circle Denmark.

 

Jörgen has worked as a promoter and artist agent, among other things. In the latter capacity, he has, for example, provided artists for Danish circuses such as Baldoni, Krone, and Mascot, as well as for circuses in Sweden and Lithuania. For several years, he was PR man for Holiday on Ice in Denmark and occasionally in Norway and Sweden.

 

In 1993, he was producer and general manager of Circus Fantastico, which only toured this one season. For many years, he also assisted Bossle Hell Drivers, Joe Williams Monster Truck Show and Lemoine Stunt Show with their touring activities in Denmark. For many years, he has been a regular guest at the Circus Festival in Monte Carlo, where he is one of the few Danes who has been in the ring. However, not as an artist, but as an audience member in Fausto Scorpion's entrée with their Risley act. The year was 1989. Click here to watch a video clip.

  

Jörgen has perhaps the largest private circus book collection in the Nordic countries, with more than 1,000 titles.

 

Jörgen has usually been a regular guest at the circus festivals in Budapest and Monte Carlo. This year, however, he has sadly chosen to skip the visits. “I’m not getting any younger,” he says.

 


For many years, Jörgen Börsch has been a faithful guest at the annual circus festivals in Monte Carlo. Here he is seen with Prince Rainier III at the welcome reception at the 8th Festival du Cirque de Monte-Carlo in December 1981.

 

Kim Kenneth turns 60. On January 19, the Danish magician Kim Kenneth turns 60. “The Dane in the fast lane”, as an English journalist called him, is the Danish magician who has had the most success in Denmark and abroad in recent years.

Kim got his interest in magic from his father, who had magic as a hobby. The first time Kim stood on stage with a magic act, he was only 6 years old. It was also his entrée exam for "Magic Cirkel Denmark". He passed and dreamed of being able to make a living from his hobby. Encouraged by his parents, he first took an office education. But magic was more exciting than a dusty office job, and in 1989 he made his professional debut in Circus Dannebrog. It was a success and got him jobs both at home and abroad. In Denmark, we saw him in Circus Arena in 1995, 1996 and 1997, in Circus Benneweis in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and in Circus Baldoni in 2018 and 2019. At Baldoni and in Benneweis in 2015, he was also the one who staged the show.

 

Abroad, he has performed in circuses and at casinos, variety shows, in amusement parks, on cruise ships and in ice shows. His most famous illusion act is perhaps the one where he drives on a motorcycle straight through a cabinet where has previously chained his partner. Of course, she is unharmed when she comes out of the cabinet.

 

In recent years, he has had the task of playing Pierrot in Tivoli Friheden in Aarhus, just as he is the daily manager of Kalundborg's children's and youth circus Circus O'Laiski.

 

   


Photos from the performance at the Circus Museum in Hvidovre during the winter holidays 2025 and as Pierrot in Tivoli Friheden in 2022.

 

 

14 January 2026 

 

Budapest Circus Festival 2026.

 

True to tradition, many Danish circus people and circus friends had found their way to the 16th international Budapest Circus Festival. From the Danish circus managements came Martin and Betinna Arli from Circus Arli, Rene Baldoni and Mrs. Camilla from Circus Baldoni, Marianne Deleuran and her boyfriend Flemming from Circus Mascot and Frank Thierry from Circus Krone together with his mother Irene and his brother Marc. The Berdino family was represented by Suzanne Berdino and her husband Daniel. The Enoch family was represented by Agnete Louise Enoch and her brother Dennie and Mrs. Gitte. From the Circus Museum in Hvidovre, Line Vittrup was seen. Einar Trie from the Circus Factory was also in Budapest. In addition, a long list of circus friends, either on their own or with Briano’s Circus Travels.

 

This year, there was a Dane in the ring: Camilla Frimann was invited into the ring by Anvar and Kolya from the Russian clown duo Gruppa Zakhvata. Camilla did well!

 

 


Camilla and the clowns. Click here to watch a short video clip from the act.

 

As always, the festival offered impressive performances.

 

Just as in Monte Carlo, there are two selection performances, both of which are shown twice. Each performance lasted about 3½ hours. In a “real” performance, the management ensures an appropriate mix of different artist disciplines. The same does not apply at a festival, and this year's festival offered, among other things, many aerial acts and many pole acts. Great acts, several of which could easily be used in a Danish circus ring. The festival also offered acts with troupes that were so large that it for financial reasons is unrealistic to hope to see them in Denmark.

 

Below you can see the names of this year's winners:

 

Budapest Grand Prix, the festival's top prize:

 

China National Acrobatic Troupe – hoop diving. An impressive act with a troupe that probably had 14 members.

     


China National Acrobatic Troupe

 

Gold

 

Flying Tabares – a fantastic act in flying trapeze, where they worked in two parallel lanes making it possible always to have one flyer in the air. Two of the troupe's twelve members mastered the triple salto. But there are not many circuses that have the space or the economy for booking such an act.

 

   


Flying Tabares

 

Kateryna Kornieva – swing pole. She comes from Ukraine and has been working as an artist for more than 25 years. Originally in aerial hoop and now with an act which is a fusion of aerial pole and a small hoop, reimagining traditional aerial-hoop elements in a modern, dynamic form.

 

     


Kateryna Kornieva

 

Martinez Brothers – Icarian Games (Risley act). Alan David Martinez and Arashi Kofukada, who are hardly brothers biologically, come from Columbia and Japan respectively. Alan David Martinez lies on the trinka and juggles Arashi with his feet. The final trick, where the podium is mechanically raised to a height of approx. 12 meters, is very spectacular. The act won a gold clown in Monte Carlo in 2020.

 

   

The Martinez Brothers got a gold medal for their Icarian Games, where Arashi was tossed around by Alan David Martinez at a wild pace, ending up 12 meters high with many somersaults in rap. Photo of the final trick was taken by Rud Kofoed in Monte Carlo in 2020.

 

 

Silver

 

Venice Carnival – trampoline. The troupe comes from Russia. The story of Venice Carnival began in 2017, when their mentor Vladimir Georgievsky decided to revive the legendary act he had performed since 1990. The act combines the trampoline with the Russian bar.

Venice Carnival. Jörgen Börsch says that the original act was shown in Circus Fantastico in 1993 under the name Trampolino Veneziano. The troupe leader Vladimir Georgievsky later became known as Professor Wacko and showed the comical trampoline act with the swimming pool and the diving board. With this act he toured Denmark with Zirkus Nemo in 2022. Now he has trained four young artists in an updated version of the old carnival act.

 

Duo Aerial DNA – aerial pole. Alisa Shehter and Dan come from Israel. They met in 2019 and have been performing with their act in arial pole since 2024.

Duo Aerial DNA                      

 

Thomas Lacey – dog act

Thomas Lacey comes from a well-known English circus family. He won silver for his act with 10 mixed-breed dogs.

 

Giulia Giona – liberty horses

 


Giulia Giona presented 5 beautiful black Friesian horses. She can be described as what you would call a horse whisperer

 

Bronze

 

Oscillating Pole Duo (Èpicentre) – oscillating pole

   

The duo, who come from Canada, presented a nice and moody number with a pole, disguised as a lamppost, where the pole could also turn, see photo. A new and nice version of a number in Chinese pole.

 

Duo Up’n’Down - Chinese pole. Laurine Dumora and Dimitri Terribilini come from France and Switzerland respectively. Both graduated from the École de cirque de Québec (Canada) in June 2022.



One of Up’n’Down’s tricks was when they bent around the pole and slid down at great speed, stopping just a few centimeters before they were about to hit the ring

 

Maria Sarach – handstand

 

 


Maria Sarach comes from Russia

 

Gabriel Dell'Acqua – handstand. He toured with Circus Arena in 2025 and received the talent prize from the Danish Circus Award.

 


Great that an artist who is only 15 years old receives an award at such a prestigious festival as the one in Budapest. As part of his act, Gabriel shows hand jumping from platforms set up as a kind of staircase. At Arena, this prop was in the ring, but in Budapest it was built into the podium. Click here to watch a video clip.

 
In addition to the above mentioned awards, there are some less prestigious awards of gold, silver and bronze given to the performers at a special Hungarian performance and a late night performance. However, since the awards, like the awards at the main festival, are called gold, silver and bronze, the winners can market themselves by saying that they won gold, silver or bronze in Budapest without mentioning that it was not at the main festival!

                                     

Hungarian Show

 

Gold: The Anna’s - swing pole

Silver: Duo Kriko - aerial straps

Bronze: Christofer Eötvös - illusion. He was with Circus Arena in 2025 and is also with Arena in the upcoming season.

 

 


The young Hungarian illusionist Christofer Eötvös performed in Circusland in 2024 and in Cirkus Arena and Circusland in 2025. He is also with Arena in the upcoming season.

 

Lyrical Circus Late Night Show

 

Gold: Chepkyi Mykhailo - aerial straps

Silver: Mateo and Aelia - diabolos

Bronze Duo Satellite - aerial straps

 

A jury of Hungarian circus directors also awarded prizes, including a silver medal to Duo Costache, known from Circus Arena. Leonardo Costace told me that the act that he and Mrs. Vita will perform in the upcoming Arena performance is a completely new Spiderman act.

In Budapest, the Hungarian circus directors gave Duo Costache a silver medal for the act in which Leonardo using a mouth bit carries a motorcycle with Mrs. Vita. The Danes experienced this act in Circus Arenas in 2023. In the upcoming Arena season, Duo Costache will present a completely new act.

 

The festival offered many other excellent acts than the acts mentioned above. But a jury has to make a choice and cannot give prizes to everyone.

 

   

Among the acts which did not win an award was a fine act with contortion and glass balance performed by female artists from the China National Acrobatic Troupe. Another troupe from China showed plate balance on sticks. However, the plates were stuck on the sticks, and the glasses in the glass balance act were glued together.

Duo Sabawiyan came from Ethiopia and showed an excellent adagio and contortion act.

 


Kelly Folco performed in 2024 and 2025 in Circusland. This year she will go on tour with Circus Arena, where she will be the only female artist in the world to take a tour of the ring on a unicycle consisting of 15 wheels on top of each other! She was among the performers in Budapest.

 

 


The Richter troupe with their jockey ride was also in Budapest. In the upcoming season you can see them in Circus Arena.

 

 

                               

9 January 2026

 

The Budapest Circus Festival is held in even years. This year it will be held from January 7 to 12.

 

The art of circus has been kept alive for centuries, thanks to those people who believed that the human performance has no limit, and they managed to maintain this conception for generations. Thirty years ago, a group of professionals led by István Kristóf created the Budapest International Circus Festival.

 

 


The festival takes place in the circus building in Budapest.

 

 

This year it is the 16th time the festival has been held. It is considered one of the leading circus festivals and a good place for circus directors to find artists for upcoming performances. A Finnish circus director once said: “In Budapest you can find artists you can use and pay. You can’t do that at the festival in Monte Carlo.”

 

The festival is traditionally visited by many Danish circus people and circus friends. Either on their own or with Briano’s circus travels.

 

Among the performers in 2026 are several artists we have seen in Denmark and/or will see in the upcoming season:

Kelly Folco has performed in Circusland for several seasons. She comes from Italy. In Budapest and in this year's Arena performance, she will present her unicycle act where she is the first ever to cycle on a unicycle consisting of 15 wheels on top of each other!

 


Gabriel Dell’Acqua is born in 2010 in Cosenza, Italy. He performed in Circus Arena in 2025 and received the talent prize of the year from the Danish Circus Award.

 


Duo Costache comes from Romania and performed at Circus Arena in 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Leonardo and Vita Costache are also part of the upcoming Arena performance.

 

In the update next week, you can read more about this year's Budapest Festival.

 

 

4 January 2026

 

Bernhard Kaselowsky declared bankrupt. By decree of December 11, 2025, the Court in Sønderborg has taken Bernhard Alois Kaselowsky into bankruptcy proceedings following a petition received on December 1, 2025. Bernhard Alois Kaselowsky has run the company Cirkus Trapez v/Bernhard Kaselowsky. The trustee is attorney Anders Tourlin Kolte from the law firm Fink in Aabenraa.

 

Bernhard's spouse Isabella Enoch Sosman tells the newspaper JydskeVestkysten that the operation of Circus Trapez today is done in companies that belong to her. Most of the equipment in the circus, such as wagons and tents, belong to her, and Bernhard's bankruptcy will not affect Circus Trapez, which continues as normal.

 

Isabella further says that Bernhard had an old debt that they had an installment plan for. Then corona came, and the plan was put on hold. After corona, it took almost three years before they really got going again. And then they came up with a proposal for an installment plan which the tax authorities wouldn't agree to it. And then Bernhard was declared bankrupt.

 

A large part of the debt is probably due to unpaid VAT.

2 January 2026

 

Danish circus in 2026.

 

Circus Arena has its national premiere at Bellahoj in Copenhagen on March 24, with dress rehearsals from March 20. The season ends on August 23 in Slagelse. It is possible to buy tickets for the season's performances via Ticketmaster.

 

 

Among the performers in Circus Arena is Sara Dell'Acqua, who stands on her hands and balances with her magic ball with calm, strength and grace. Her older brother Gabriel Dell'Acqua performed in Circus Arena in 2025 and received the talent prize from the Danish Circus Award. Gabriel is also among the performers at the upcoming circus festival in Budapest. - "Sara is better than her older brother," promises circus director Benny Berdino. Press photo from Circus Arena.

 

Circus Arli open the season on Easter Saturday, April 4 at the Mill Hill in the Copenhagen suburb Fløng.

 

Cirkus Baldoni has its national premiere in Hillerød in the beginning of April.

 

Circus Mascot expects to have its season opening on March 21.

 

Circus Trapez has not yet announced a premiere date. Circus Krone and the very small Cirkus Solvej has not made announcements about their 2026 season.

 

Two of the circuses mentioned are offering winter circuses in February: Circus Trapez has a tour in Jutland halls from February 6 to 22. Circus Mascot has performances in HerningCentret in week 7, where you will meet Marianne Deleuran and her dogs, the clown Gulio and his daughter Julyia, and the young Danish juggler Jonathan Zeuthen.


In November and December, Jonathan Zeuthen first performed in Baldoni's Christmas Circus and then in Malmö Winter Circus. The photo is from the latter performance.

 

In week 7, Jimmy Enoch presents a circus show at the shopping mall Rosengaardcenteret in Odense. Subject to change, the program features juggler and entertainer David Sosman, clown and multi-artist Alexander Arli, bicycle acrobatics with Jimmy Enoch with his children Jeremy and Emily, aged 10 and 12, respectively, as well as the Spindler family with dogs, a cowboy show and an aerial act.

 

 

 

1 January 2026

 

Birthdays with a round figure 2026. Several persons from in the Danish circus and artist world can celebrate a birthday with a round figure during 2026:

 

January 6: Violet Ørum, former trapeze artist, 95 years old


January 18: Jörgen Börsch, artist agent, etc., 85 years old


January 19: Kim Kenneth, illusionist, 60 years old


February 9: Norma Fox, La Norma, former trapeze artist, 100 years old


February 18: JohnJohn Thurano, former artist, 80 years old


March 12: Arne Bjørk, actor and clown Jody, 85 years old


May 5: Venzel Zalmov, artist, etc., 80 years old


June 14: Agnete Louise Enoch, former circus director, 70 years old


July 19: Bent Soelberg, former artist, 90 years old


August 3: Benny Berdino, circus director, 80 years old


August 18: Tonny Trifolikum, clown, 70 years old


December 6: Kim Benneweis, former elephant trainer, 70 years old

 

1 January 2026

This website had approximately 17,000 visitors in 2025. The news section, being a weekly internet magazine and the tour list (“What’s on) are usually updated every Saturday. On the news section we bring news from the Danish circus world. We also cover circuses in neighboring Sweden and Norway. Apart from news and tour list the website has pages with facts about Danish circuses, Danish circus families etc. Links to those pages can be found at the bottom of the opening page.

 

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