React, Invent, Get together for a Goal: Expertise in Rigging Services
▶Summary
In the last 15 years there has been growing awareness that the safety of the physical environments and equipment used in circus arts education must be a priority. Artists must control risks in ord...
▶Objectives
The React, Invent, Get together for a Goal: Expertise in Rigging Services (RIGGERS) project has been developed to answer the needs of riggers, the specialists dealing with all aspects related to safety in circus Institutions. The aims were 1) enhancing the quality of safety measures in professional circus Institutions, 2) creating a new international community to exchange skills, advice and expertise, and 3) ensuring knowledge transmission to future generations. The specific objectives of the project were to: • Identify the needs of the riggers by mapping the sector and collecting relevant data. • Build an international community of riggers by creating a sustainable framework to share and collect good practices, working towards agreements on standards, and by creating a dedicated virtual space to share and exchange between peers. • Offer a training scheme enabling fluid exchange between peers where current practices are shared, questioned and improved, and video-based documentation can be created to transmit knowledge and train new riggers and students.