In 2021 Lidia Togni Circus made 150 years from its creation and started again to work after 1,5 year al pandemia. Recently the circus is decreasing almost completely the use of animals, around 8 minutes walk for the ones got left. The circus is more focused and pointing on its human resourses and artists on their multicultural and nomads roots.
The circus is always attracting people from all nationality, it is a multicultural environment where all people live and cooperate together in peace and respect of each other. Artists help to build up the tend in every city they go, it takes almost three days to do it, then they get ready for the night show.
After the two daily shows they eat and gather together. "During the covid period was strange and hard. It has been a strong emotional and intimate close, a forced closure to whole emotional levels. Deprive us from our job was like deprive us from a piece of heart. We live like a community that helped but we weren't close at human level, because we couldn't see for our late evening daily reunion, so we closed more into ourself probably to think and maditate on what was going on, it has been a big disgrace", states Giorgia Togni, 18 years old.
The circus is ancient like history in human being. Mini acrobat statues have been found in Italy and some are related to IV century B.C. are preserved in Archeological Museum of Taranto.
Acrobats, clown, juggler ... probably are the first who in somehow clear through customs the idea of men ma