Welcome to the Circus of Life
A space where we meet complexity, uncertainty, and transformation not with fear, but with imagination and play.
In this co-creative experience, participants step into roles both absurd and profound, rehearsing the juggling, balancing, and collapsing we all face in times of change — whether in our lives, our communities, or our organizations.
This is not a workshop to “fix” anything. Instead, it’s a playful and embodied space to feel, move, and reimagine together. Through guided improvisation, embodiment practices, and story telling, we compost what is heavy and discover new ways of relating — to ourselves, to each other, and to the challenges we share.
An interactive theatre ritual playground
Participants - 15 to 60 people
Duration - 1.5 to 2,5 hours
Language - English
Co-creators : Kuba, Jean-Baptiste Dupas
Invite the Circus of Life
Do you feel this format could be transformative for your team, your collective or community?
We adapt this format to your needs and context, so the experience feels truly yours.
Get in touch : jeanbaptiste.dupas@gmail.com
We use techniques and draw inspiration from theatre, ritual design, and embodied imagination to:
Create a space where uncertainty is not something to fear
but to dance with
Encourage emotional honesty without heaviness or dogma
Remind people that community, creativity, and play are powerful tools for resilience and regeneration
Offer participants a temporary mythos — a circus — where they can rehearse futures worth living
Every exercise is framed as an invitation — participants are free to engage at their own pace, respecting their energy and boundaries.
The result is a temporary “ritual playground” where difficult themes (burnout, overload, change, even failure) can be transformed into insights, laughter, and renewed energy for working together.
Takeaways:
Build resilience and agency by experiencing complexity physically — embodying the juggling, contradictions, and balancing acts of life and work, and discovering new ways to relate to uncertainty.
Release tension and leave renewed — transforming overload, grief, and frustration into humor, movement, and collective creativity, and returning with fresh energy, stronger bonds, and a sense of possibility.
Strengthen connection through emotional honesty and collective imagination — practicing deep listening, playful collaboration, and shared meaning-making as tools for navigating change.
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Why Theatre?
Theatre lets us rehearse for life and new futures. It invites us to step outside our usual roles, embody new possibilities, and mirror truths that words alone can’t reach. Through collective play we can regenerate resilience where strategies and words alone often fall short.
Why Ritual Design?
Ritual gives shape to the invisible. It holds the emotions and transitions we often skip past — grief, joy, uncertainty, longing — and transforms them into shared meaning. Ritual creates thresholds where endings can be honored, beginnings marked, and individuals woven into a larger whole.
Why Embodied Imagination?
Imagination becomes transformative when it lives in the body. Embodied imagination allows us to move ideas, emotions, and symbols into gesture and play — to rehearse possibilities not only in thought but in lived experience. It bypasses analysis and opens a deeper intelligence where creativity, meaning, and connection can take root.
Invite the Circus of Life
Feel this call in your group or community? Let’s step into the Circus of Life!
Get in touch: jeanbaptiste.dupas@gmail.com