The RIGGERS project has been developed to answer the needs of riggers in professional circus schools, with the aim of enhancing the quality of safety measures and creating an international community eager to exchange skills, advice and expertise to be transmitted to future generations.
In the last 15 years, the circus education sector has grown strongly, in Europe and in the world.
In parallel, there is a growing awareness that safety and prevention in the schools must be a priority. Even though expressing emotions in the circus arts is closely linked to a certain representation of danger, artists have to learn from an early stage to manage and control risks.
Furthermore, circus arts are evolving, enriched by artistic, aesthetic and technical innovations as well as by industrial and technological developments. It is crucial that the circus arts education sector stays adequate to this evolution with a set of unique, specific and up-to-date safety and rigging measures.
The React, Invent, Get together for a Goal: Expertise in Rigging Services (RIGGERS) project has been developed to answer the needs of riggers in professional circus schools, with the aim of enhancing the quality of safety measures and creating an international community eager to exchange skills, advice and expertise to be transmitted to future generations.
[FEDEC – original article]
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