CIRCUS ROYAL

Tonight was the closing night of this season’s performances of our home-town family circus CIRCUS ROYAL in Dordrecht. The Teuteberg family runs this fine circus every year around the Holiday Season. This was the 18th edition of the circus, which has a very long history. The grandparents of today’s owner already started this circus back in 1896 !!

Every winter I try to attend a few performances. This season I offered the circus management to shoot a photo series of the entire season (also some behind the scenes and party shots), so I ended up seeing about 15 of the total of 20 shows.

Since the Gala Premiere show December 21, the programme grew tremendously. All acts were performed more and more confidently!
Circus Royal absolutely has all the ingredients a good night out to the circus needs. I don’t think there are that many circuses which can match Circus Royal’s atmosphere. One of the very best around.

The international line-up of artists is always one to be proud of as well. This year’s line-up included: a dog-act with Wolfgang Lauenburger from Germany, The Troupe Alinte from Rumania (schleuderbrett), Miss Diana in an antipode act, Jora Oganisyan from Russia with a soccer juggling act, Wolfgang Lauenburger is back with 4 horses and 4 ponies, Joop Teuteberg features on the trumpet in a beautiful rendition of “What a Wonderful World”, Professor Wacko from Russia is a fabulous and most entertaining trampoline artist.

After the intermission the show continued with exciting trapeze stunts by Air Valentino from Rumania/Hungary, the Scholl family from Germany brings three giant elephants into the arena, Los Ginos clowns trio perform a hilarious musical act with an incredible variety of instruments, with a leading role by father and son Joop & Tonie Teuteberg, Duo Marinhos from Colombia with their death defying high wire antics, and a closing ceremony with all artists in the arena.