Riga Circus Residency Program

The Riga Circus is becoming a contemporary art centre – a place where different disciplines of art – circus, theatre, dance, music and cinema – come together. The mission of the organization is to promote contemporary circus development and performing arts diversity in Latvia and in the Baltic region. The main priorities of the Riga Circus are: • interdisciplinary culture programme with the main focus on the contemporary circus; • circus education; • international art residency programme. Rigas cirks Residency program is created as a laboratory for new forms of artistic research and art practices within the interdisciplinary field of art. Rigas cirks is open to contemporary circus artists, dancers, visual artists, architects, designers etc. Our main mission is to promote contemporary artistic practices mainly focusing on circus development in Latvia and in the Baltic region. We are eager to foster exchange, discussion, experimentation, and collaborative work. The Residency simultaneously hosts artists or artist groups of two profiles: one from the circus field and one from another art field. During the residency: 1) circus artists are expected to work on ideas for new performances or site-specific projects, 2) artists from other art fields are expected to work on ideas for site-specific projects related to Riga City and/or its community. Rigas cirks Residency program offers artists the opportunity to work on new circus performance ideas or site-specific projects related to Rigas cirks and its historical building at 4, Merkela Street, Riga. Between 2021 and 2023, the residencies will take place in the temporary premises of Rigas cirks at 25, Zellu Street.