A world of performance, festivals, faires, music scenes, movement, physical arts, and live culture :: made by the people who bring it to life.
Join the FamilyWe produce original work, pay the artists who make it, and help the folk raise performances of their own :: your purpose, on its feet, in front of people.
IMP Circus is the founding troupe and the proof :: join it, collaborate with it, or start an act of your own with the family behind you.
Everyone has an act in them.
Visit IMP Circus →Start your act →Training in juggling, balance, movement, breath, voice, music, puppetry, and stagecraft :: taught by working practitioners, paid fairly. Come learn a craft or sharpen one :: a little every day, for life.
Skill is the doorway.
Train with us →Teach with us →Health, safety, and longevity for performers, crew, faire workers, and the scenes they belong to :: warm-ups and recovery, hearing and joints, and care that never mistakes the culture for the problem.
We're building a network of care from the health and performance world, pointed at our people.
Fight Early Death.
Explore the care program →You've seen the parking-lot carnival :: tired rides, greasy fryers, a crew counting the hours. That lot deserves better. Pop-up circuses where the food is real, the rides are kept, the bands are local, the vendors are neighbors, and the crew is having as much fun as the crowd. A midway a town is glad to see coming and sorry to see go.
That's the tent we're raising toward :: ring by ring, act by act.
Become part of the people helping the work grow :: performances, practice, and care for the folk.
Get on the list →Gear, equipment, space, skills, introductions, and eventually patron support :: tell us what you can put into the tent.
Offer something →We exist to support the wider circus of performance and the scenes that hold it :: theaters, festivals, Renaissance faires, music venues, streets, studios, clubs, rehearsal rooms, and everywhere people gather to create, practice, perform, and belong.
And we mean all the folk. The old fences between the scenes are coming down :: metalheads at the faire, faire folk at the metal show, goths who love a clown, clowns who love the dark, jesters, jugglers, goblins, puppeteers, pit crews and choir kids. If you make live culture, or hold the room where it happens, you're circus folk. This tent was raised for you.
Produce original work and pay the artists who make it.
Make training in the physical and performing arts reachable, and help people build acts of their own.
Advance the health, safety, and longevity of performers and their communities.