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10 January 2025
This year Circus Arena can celebrate their 70 anniversaries. On this occasion, I have written a 10-section article on the history of Circus Arena. Monday to Friday in week 3 and week 4, I post them with one section per day on the Facebook group Dansk Circus Forum. The language is Danish but using google translate you can easily translate the articles to English or another language.
This tent was used by Circus Arena in some of their earliest years.
Circus Arena's current tent is from 2022. It has a diameter of 40 m2 and is the largest circus tent in the Nordic countries
But fortunately, the circus is something more than history. And Circus Arena aims to celebrate the anniversary with a bang of a performance, which offers both new artists and reunions with artists that we have seen before in Circus Arena. The 2025-season opens at Bellahøj in Copenhagen on Tuesday 25 March. Then they visit the rest of the country. The 2025 tour ends on August 25 in Sorø.
As in 2024, it is Bubber and Malene Qvist who present the performance.
Subject to changes, you will meet the following artists in this year's Arena performance:
Steven Ferreri – tight wire
Michael Ferreri - juggler
The two brothers were also with Arena in 2023.
Christofer Eötvös with illusions (magic). Christofer performed in Arena’s theme part Circusland in the 2024 summer season.
Circus Arena's house clown Jimmy Folco
William Tournoud – rola bola in trapeze. He comes from France, and has not previously performed in Denmark.
David Hammarberg - aerial number. He was also with Arena in 2023 and 2024. David says that this year he is showing a completely new act.
Duo Costache. It is Leonardo and Vita Costache's 6th season at Circus Arena.
Los Ortiz performs in the wheel of death wheel and on high wire. They were also at Arena in 2023, where the Danish Circus Award gave them the prize for the year's best act.
Gabriel Delacruz - handstand. He has not previously performed in Denmark. In 2022 he won gold at the European Youth Circus festival in Wiesbaden. One of the most prestigious festivals for young artists.
There are also liberty horses in the performance. It is likely that it is Arena's former elephant trainer Rudy Althoff, who present the horses. Circus Arena do not any longer have their own animals. Thus, it is a horse act which is booked in the same way as other artist acts. It is the performances only animal act.
9 January 2025
Circus Trapez winter circus can be seen in a number of indoor arenas in Jutland from 7 to 23 February. Isabella Enoch Sosman tells that the artists in the winter circus are:
Swetlana with ferrets and cats. She was also with Trapez in 2024.
Swetlana with one of her cats
Rudi Brunson and Irina Skuratova with new run-is
Rudy Brukson the clown. Press photo from Circus Trapez
Rico Brukson with ladder balance
Elena Brukson in aerial ring
Bernhard Kaselowsky with ponies
Bernhard Kaselowsky and his ponies. Press photo from Circus Trapez
The first week we have Nicolina Bak with us in aerial silks (tissue). Next week Frida Lindskov Dyrholm Nørskov, performing in aerial spiral.
By the way, Isabella has recently married her long-term fiancé Bernhard Kaselowsky. Congratulations to the newlyweds.
9 January 2025
CIRCUSTRANSPORT DENMARK is the title of a new book by Dutch Henk van den Berg. It has 112 pages, all in colour, and contains 650 photos and posters from the Arena, Arli, Benneweis, Baldoni, Dannebrog, Krone, Nemo, Moreno, Mascot and Schumann circuses. The book will be published in February and the price incl. shipping in Europe is 42.50 EURO. The book is in English and can be ordered at www.circuswebshop.com
Henk van der Berg has previously published a large number of books with photos and posters from European circuses.
8 January 2025
Zirkus Nemo 2025. In a post on Facebook, Peter Marrott, who was bandmaster at Nemo in 2024, writes that Zirkus Nemo will unfortunately not be on tent tours this year. Due to this he has time for other projects. He believes that Zirkus Nemo is trying to do something in concert halls this autumn. In circus and artist circles, it has long been known that Nemo was unlikely to go on tent tours in 2025.
There is no announcement from circus owner Søren Østergaard about the 2025 season. At the end of February and the beginning of March, he will give lectures about his life in several cities in Denmark.
3 January 2025
Danish circuses in 2025. We know for sure that at least 5 Danish circuses will be on tour in 2025: the large Circus Arena, the medium-sized Circus Baldoni and the slightly smaller Circus Arli, Circus Mascot and Circus Trapez. Denmark’s last two circuses, Søren Østergaard's Zirkus Nemo and the Thierry family's Circus Krone, have not yet published anything about their plans for 2025.
Three of the circuses mentioned offer winter circuses in February. Circus Trapez has a tour in Jutland's indoor arenas from 7 to 23 February. Circus Mascot performs in HerningCentret shopping mall in week 7 and Circus Baldoni in Ishøj Shopping Centre, Copenhagen, in week 8.
In week 7, Jimmy Enoch presents a circus show in the Rosengaard Shopping Mall in Odense. Circusland in Circus Arena’s winter quarter in Arslev by Slagelse is open from 8 to 16 February.
The tent season starts on 25 March in Copenhagen at ‘Bellahøj’, where Circus Arena premieres their 70th anniversary performance. Circus Arli and Circus Mascot both opens the season on 29 March. Circus Arli tours with a tent. Circus Mascot just like in 2023 and 2024 in sports halls etc. Circus Baldoni starts the tented season on April 5.
A so-called horror circus, Circus of Torment, visits Denmark in March and April. There is a premiere in Copenhagen on March 13. From there they continue to Odense, Vejle and Aarhus. They were most recently in Denmark in 2024. It is owned by DarkThrills Entertainment / Dutch Michaël Betrian).
3 January 2025
Birthdays with a round figure 2025. Several persons from in the Danish circus and artist world can celebrate a birthday with a round figure during 2025:
29 January 2025: Freddi Steckel, acrobat, 75 years old
9 February 2025: Suzanne Berdino, artist, 60 years old
14 February 2025: Dennie Enoch, former artist, 70 years.
6 April 2025: Leif Conradi, former bike acrobat, 95 years old
29 April 2924: Ulla Steckel, former circus owner, 70 years old
23 May 2025: Benny Schumann, clown and multi-artist, 80 years old
20 July 2025: Lasse Nørager, clown, 60 years old
23 August 2025: René Mønster Baldoni, circus owner, 60 years old
14 December 2025: Helle Abildgaard, painter, 70 years old
1 January 2025
This website had approximately 21,000 visitors in 2024. The news section, being a weekly internet magazine and the tour list (“What’s on) are usually updated every Saturday. 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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