Circus and Street Art
Candidates, fill in the form below and then complete your audition by sending all the materials to promozione@bam.milano.it: selections will close on 24 April!
We accept performances of individual artists and groups up to a maximum of 6 participants.
Following an online pre-selection, the 10 talents who will be chosen will have the chance to perform at the NAMA – Nuovo Anfiteatro Martesana amphitheatre on 15 May before a panel of important celebrities that will decide whether or not you will reach the final performance at BAM!
The members of the panel who will assess your performance will include the famous circus artist Paride Orfei, the professor of history of circus and street performance at the University of Milan Alessandro Serena, the former representative of MiC Donatella Ferrante and members of the talent promoting organisations, i.e. the General Cultural Director of BAM Francesca Colombo and the Director of Fondazione di Comunità Milano Filippo Petrolati.
What number would you like to present to us?
We will accept numbers of juggling, tight-rope walking, clowning, individual and/or pairs acrobatics, handstands, hand to hand acrobatics, human pyramids, magic, figure theatre, puppets, ventriloquism, creative skating (but without limitation).
A few restrictions: the only types of performance that will not be admitted are overhead disciplines, Chinese poles and all disciplines that require the use of special technical structures, numbers with animals, numbers with fire.
The 4 finalists selected by the Panel during the 15 May show at NAMA will perform again at BAM on 17 and 18 May during our BAM Circus, The Marvels at the Park Festival event beside professional artists who you can learn about here.
We will offer the 4 winning talents a range of awards:
- Final performance during BAM Circus, contemporary circus festival of international renown, beside world-famous artists and young talents
- an economic award of €500 to contribute to your artistic training
- a spending voucher for circus material made available by Play Juggling
- an artistic specialisation experience at the Piccolo Circo dei Sogni di Paride Orfei school
- the chance to perform in public in Piazza Duomo, at the corner of Via Marconi, made available by the Municipality of Milan
- the chance to perform in the Garibaldi Station, made available by Openstage
What are you waiting for? Download the Regulations and, after filling in the form, send us your candidacy with a video no more than 3’ long and in 16:9 framing.
