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ANNEX D
REPORT FROM SOME SORT OF A CIRCUS COMMITEE MEETING
Documentation des Arts du Spectacle dans une Société
en Mutation / Documentation of Performing Arts in a Changing Society
Société Internationale des Bibliothèques et des
Musées des Arts du Spectacle / International Association of Libraries and Museums of the
Performing Arts
19ème Congrès International, Lisbonne 7-11 septembre 1991 / 19th International Congress,
Lisbon 7-11 September 1992
Ed.: José Carlos Alvarez. Lisboa : 1994, p. 71-75
When the Circus Committee meeting of the SIBMAS congress
was supposed to take place, all the could-be-members, by for them obvious reasons, had
joined other committee meetings, where they were taking part in verbal discussions,
personal intriguing and other adrenalin-creating procedures, and I suddenly found myself
in splendid isolation as the only member of the Circus Committee.
In that situation there was no discussion about who should be the chairman and the
secretary of the meeting.
Those procedures quickly finished, the whole meeting decided with acclamation to use the
time spared from verbal discussions to form an investigation team consisting of all
partaking members to document the famous circus building of COLISEU in central Lisbon.
Under the eminent and professional guidance of the architect and artist José Manuel
Castanheira, the whole group of observant eyes managed to force the locked doors of
COLISEU and get inside carrying all camera equipment needed for a solemn documentation.
The one hundred year old building of COLISEU was, as so many other cultural buildings in
the present Portugal, closed for reconstruction and the performing artists were perhaps
performing in more simple circus constructions reconstructed for every performance.
COLISEU was really an imposing circus building with the echoes of one hundred years of
different performances in the arena or on the big stage. The building stood there in a
good state and with the same simple and perfect stage- and seating-arrangements as when
newly built. The entire Circus Committee joined in a quick prayer that not to much of that
should be destroyed in the reconstruction. The gentle stage-manager did put on all the
light that was needed for the photographic documentation and also provided a worn copy of
Ricardo Covöes "0 Cinquentenario do Coliseu dos Recreios" printed to
celebrate the moment when the building was halfway to what it is today.
I later found the book in the library of the Cirkus-Akademi in Stockholm and will use it
to complete the more detailed report that will be sent to all the members of this Circus
Committee meeting.
Per Edström
URL: http://www.sibmas.org/congresses/sibmas90/LisbCircus.htm
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