RIGGERS

RIGGERS (React, Invent, Get together for a Goal: Expertise in Rigging Services) has been developed to address the needs of riggers in professional circus schools, with the aim of improving the quality of safety measures and creating an international community willing to exchange skills, advice and know-how to pass on to future generations.

The project was conducted in partnership with Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) in Sweden, with the aim of :

• sharing best practice,
• searching for tailored solutions to common issues,
• growing an international rigging community!

RIGGERS, an international rigging community

RIGGERS was organised around several activities:

2 seminars

These aimed to share best practice within schools, and to:

• define the work themes,
• identify the pairs that will participate in the Riggers Swapping Experience (RSE),
• achieve a state of the art for safety and rigging in circus schools,
• share the results and outcomes of the exchanges.

Riggers Swapping Experience (RSE) and Riggers Visiting Experience (RVE)

Various study visits provided opportunities for riggers to spend time in a circus school, explore safety and rigging approaches and practices, and engage in discussions about day-to-day challenges with their local peers.

A continuous remote cooperation

After each RSE, the partners worked locally on the chosen topic, keeping in touch with the school they have been paired with using Slack, the project’s dedicated virtual platform.

The RIGGERS project partners

The project involved 10 partners : FEDEC and 9 circus schools from 8 different countries:

The RIGGERS Steering Committee

A Steering Committee has been created to manage the project, with representatives from SKH, FEDEC and the project partners:

• Anna Beentjes - Codarts (NLD)

• Anne Mette Norskov - AFUK (DEN)

• Christine Thibaudeau - ENC Montreal (CAN)

• Jorun Kugelberg - SKH (SWE)

• Petter Wennardt - SKH (SWE)

• Isabel Joly - FEDEC (BEL)

• Lorenzo Albiero - FEDEC (BEL)

Its role was to ensure that the project was properly completed, in accordance with the defined objectives.

RIGGERS: Project outcomes

The virtual platform Slack

This has been developed to enable online peer-to-peer cooperation and dialogue. Following the project, it became an open virtual forum dedicated to the safety and rigging sector in the circus field.

> Join the community on Slack