CIRCUS  IN  SWEDEN

SITUATION  IN  SWEDEN

Circus in Sweden is completely without any form of money from the state and so called culturel departments. Every owner has to trust only him- or herself concerning incoming money. Some of the circus- directors are succesfully working with selling their shows to companies such as grocery stores and other stores, some industrial factories, sometimes to schools, sometimes to local community departments and, of course, to all of them who want to put money in a show or two..

Opera and theater takes a lot, a big lot, of our taxmoney. Not to mention the free theater groups, nearly in every corner of the country. And they take millions of swedish kronor.
Circus, however, has to pay for themselves. They pay large sums of kronor to rent a place on grass or sand. And as most circuses travel one-day-stands, these rent-money put together during a season, is a fortune. All other taxes not to mention.

The high costs here is one reason why circuses sometimes are short- living. Some people never give up, and we are lucky here in Sweden to have circus touring at all.

CIRCUSES IN SWEDEN  2017

Cirkus Brazil Jack
Cirkus Maximum
Cirkus Olympia
 

OLD SWEDISH ARTISTS
Sweden is a small country. Just 9 million people with circa 10-12 circuses of all dimensions. All of them the European stile One-Ring-Circus. And the tents differs from 200 - 1300 places.
We have "produced" many real good circus and variety-acts. I mention here only a few of them,
REINO the slackwirewalker who was the only artist to bicycle one wheel with hands!! I think he still is the only. (Photo here). STILL YEAR 2017 NO ONE HAVE EVER SUCCEEDED THE TRICK WITH HAND-CYCLING !!!! The TWO LERY´S with their spectacular, hilarious acrobatics on stilts, THE VETERANS who formed a new stile the World around with crazy gymnastic/acrobatic, and all the artists from FURUVIK´s Youth Circus, TRIO HOGANAS, two men with the wire in their mouth and a woman balancing on it, THE SVENSSON´s first with the funny pas de deux on horses, ULFI balancing on the slack wire on his forefingers, and THE APOLLOS, the incredible acrobats and THE KIMS, JÖRGEN & CONNY, THE KELLYS  
and, and, and . . . .

J DAHLIN PHOTOPAGES
I must mention a man, not circusowner, circusartist or circusworker, but with a great love for circus and known as one of Europe´s finest photographers in the circus-world. His photos can be seen in most major newspapers in Scandinavia and abroad and in the circuses program-magazines. His name JANERIC DAHLIN. (2 photopages can you See here).

You never know when it will be more to read here. I myself don't know . . . .

Thank you for reading all the way down here! 
HOPE TO SEE YOU IN SOME CIRCUS!