Circus around the block
It's Amsterdam's birthday! To celebrate, we present a circus performance in De Pijp.
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Amsterdam has been a melting pot of people and cultures for 750 years. You can feel it in the city streets. Our vibrancy here is boundless. Through your streets, through our streets, Circus around the Block plays. A visual circus about carrying and being carried in a vibrant city.
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Boost Producties previously made an enchanting impression with a walk-through circus in the Beurs van Berlage, where no room of this iconic building was left unused. This contemporary circus is at the intersection of theater, dance and visual art, where venue, surprise and beauty go hand in hand. Their latest performance Circus around the Block takes place in a hidden part of Amsterdam's Pijp district: the Tolstraat, Cullinanplein and Dora Tamanaplein.
The performance takes as its inspiration the neighborhood itself, with its unusual buildings, rich history and multicolored residents. For a year the makers of Boost, together with CC Amstel and the many neighborhood organizations, are active in this neighborhood. Together with the residents they collect stories and invent new ones. With circus, they seek connections for everyone who wants to participate.
In Circus around the Block all these experiences from the neighborhood come together. A performance full of movement, fun and so characteristic of Boost: the life-size, alienating installations in which award-winning circus artists play exciting scenes.
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The starting point of Circus around the Block is in the heart of the neighborhood, at CC Amstel. This lively neighborhood theater, with a great passion for circus, is one of the beautiful meeting places in the neighborhood.
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Accessibility
Circus around the Block is a non-verbal performance suited to everyone above the age of 8. The performance consists of an approximately 500-meter walk starting from Cullinanplein 1 (at CC Amstel), with short circus acts along the way. Headphones are provided upon entry to the performance.
The circus route is accessible for wheelchair users. All performances at 17:00 are enriched with a sign language interpreter and performances at 19:00 have a blind interpreter. The performance is set largely outside (with one circus act occurring in the theatre hall) and will continue in rainy weather. Please check our website and social media in case of severe weather conditions.
There are no tribunes or seating areas, except in the theatre hall. You can make use of the toilets at CC Amstel before or after the performance takes place.
For questions or information mail lennie@circusaroundtheblock.nl
Dates 2025
Friday; 12, 19 and 26 September and 3 October
Time: 17.00, 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00
Saturday: 13, 20 and 27 September en 4 October
Time: 13.00, 14.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00
Sunday; 14, 21 and 28 September and 5 October
Time: 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 15.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00
