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DESCRIPTION:Jul 11 - Aug 4\, 2026\nWhile American circus has long been a so
 urce of horror and ridicule—see Mark Twain\, Stephen King\, or the Joan 
 Crawford vehicle Berserk!—the French were taught by their painters to re
 vere the humble form. It follows that at Paris l’été\, France’s Fren
 chiest summer arts festival (forget the internationalism of Avignon and th
 e other provinces\, these artists are French)\, circus and its adjacent ar
 ts dominate. French circus\, of the nouveau kind that blossomed after Mai 
 ’68\, means more sweat than illusion and more poetry than stunt. As the 
 festival website breathlessly reports of its pièce de résistance\, the w
 orld-traveling Collectif XY’s premiere Les Voyages\, they “are buildin
 g human architectures based on trust. Solidarity becomes the cement for ep
 hemeral sculptures!” Paris l’été’s new directors have dispersed th
 e “human architectures” across the city for us to happily stumble upon
 —in the Jardin de Tuileries\, the Bois de Boulogne\, in a lone tree in a
  schoolyard in the 19th arrondissement—juggling\, tumbling\, and balanci
 ng on a wire so far up that the backdrop is pure blue sky.
LOCATION:Various Venues\, Paris\, France
SUMMARY:Paris l'été
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