Escuela Superior para las Artes Circenses y Teatrales Circo Social, Circo-Técnia, Escuela de Circo

Abstract

In Colombia, the circus and theatrical culture has gained relevance in recent years, especially since 2011 when the project of Law 1493 of 2011 was filed, by which measures were taken to formalize the public entertainment sector, however, said shows they are coordinated mostly by foreign companies and groups, on the other hand, with the rise of the Social Circus, communities and artists coordinate local shows for entertainment and some with informal training programs, which generates a distinctive labor gap between professionals and empirically trained artists. This document seeks to identify and analyze the problems, the variables for which our country and specifically Bogotá does not export talent in circus and theater arts. Our research seeks to focus on issues such as Social Circus, defined as the practice and teaching of circus by and for communities, focused on benefiting their social group and their environment. The research, with a qualitative approach to the circus sector in Bogotá, based on professionalism, educational focus, formality, type of circus and social focus. The general conclusion of the investigation shows that by making education a means for the professionalization of art, we equalize the opportunities for the circus sector, benefiting the communities in which the training programs are developed, in addition, by technicalizing and professionalizing the art, new job opportunities will be generated nationally and internationally.