Join the En Piste Team!
Are You Looking to Contribute to the Promotion of Circus Arts? En Piste, the national circus arts association, is currently looking for a Member Services Coordinator. We are seeking an approachable, dynamic, and professional individual to ensure a high-quality welcome for members and provide administrative support to the association’s Executive Director. This person will play […]
Award-Winning Organization: Propulsion Award 2024
Acting for Climate Montréal / Mouvement Climat Montréal addresses sensitive issues through committed and eco-responsible contemporary circus The Montreal Arts Council and En Piste, the national circus arts network, join their voices to warmly congratulate the recipient organization of the first Propulsion Award in Circus Arts. The award, accompanied by a $10,000 grant, recognizes an […]
Summer Circus in Quebec and Canada
En Piste offers a glimpse into approximately fifty Quebec companies that will present their shows and performances across the territory during summer 2024. In addition to those in Quebec, several activities elsewhere in Canada will feature circus arts during the summer season: indoors, in amphitheaters, under big tops, in urban gardens, in the streets, in […]
Montreal, May 30, 2024 – A new circus festival is launched in East Montreal! From June 7 to 9, 2024, La compagnie des autres presents the first edition of PointÔ Circus and street, in the heart of Pointe-aux-Trembles village! The public can attend over twenty outdoor and indoor performances, most of which are free. This […]
Finalists for the 2024 Propulsion Award for Innovation and Enrichment in Circus Arts
Montreal, June 4, 2024 — En Piste, the national network for circus arts, is pleased to continue its partnership with the Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) and announces the finalists for the 2024 Propulsion Award in Circus Arts. This award recognizes audacity and highlights the significant contribution of an individual or group to the […]
The Social Circus Approach and its Impact on Youth Acknowledged
Montreal, May 24, 2024 – The Montreal organization dedicated since 2011 to social circus intervention, Cirque Hors Piste, has seen its approach, based on circus arts as a social intervention tool, recognized with an Honourable Mention awarded as part of the Awards of Excellence of the Health and Social Services Network. This honourable mention was […]
Angela Laurier’s Ultimate Acrobatic Feat
Artist Angela Laurier, who dazzled Quebec with her contortions, acrobatics, and aerial rope choreographies during the very early days of Cirque du Soleil, passed away last week at the age of 62. According to her peers, she was a pioneering artist who paved important ways for creative and auteur circus, for contortion, and for a […]
$15m for CALQ: Necessary, but Insufficient
Montreal, May 15, 2024 – The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) will receive an additional $15 million for its mission support program. (available in French only) The Front commun pour les arts et les lettres eagerly awaited the announcement from Mathieu Lacombe, Minister of Culture and Communications, regarding the necessary budget […]
Is Culture, a Driver of our Identity, a Priority?
Open Letter to Le Devoir Dominic Trudel and Julie-Anne Richard The former is the Executive Director of the Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM). He signs this text on behalf of the Common Front for Arts and Letters. The latter is the Executive Director of the Association professionnelle des diffuseurs de spectacles – RIDEAU. A […]
Major Demonstration for the Arts / April 18, 2024
“Fewer than 10 circus companies receive mission-based support from CALQ, she laments, thus the ecosystem is extremely fragile and relies on projects. Circus artists are barely surviving; many no longer believe in it; they are exhausted and considering leaving the field. Furthermore, there has been a 30% decrease in international performances, and that’s for the […]