Circus Madigan
Circus Madigan is a traditional family run circus . The location or winter quarters of Circus Madigan is Sjöbo in Sweden .
history
The story of Circus Madigan began in 1989 in Malmös Volkspark. He was there that summer under the name Circus Starlight . The following year the circus toured Sweden.
This Circus Starlight was run as a circus by the Jackson circus family, who can look back on a long artistic tradition. A few years later, Horst and Jana Jackson ended their active time and retired. Mike Jackson also quit and now works as an educator in Sweden.
Peer Jackson and Manuella Scholl, who also comes from a traditional circus family, took over the circus together with their daughters Natali, Nadin and their son Jack with his fiancé Elisabeth. The circus gradually grew vigorously and changed the name to Circus Madigan.
Circus Madigan traveled through Sweden for several years with an international classical circus program and artists from all over the world . In 2001 it went on a European tour through Estonia , Latvia , Germany and Sweden.
School projects
Since October 2002 Circus Madigan has been concentrating on school projects in Sweden.
The circus usually visits a school for a week and teaches the students juggling , aerial acrobatics , clowning and show dance in a kind of project week in different groups . What the children learn during this week they then show in their own circus performance.
The positive development stimulated by this strict circus school among the children made headlines on Swedish television and the Swedish press.
The City of Malmö started a test project together with Jack Scholl in October and November to determine whether positive results can be achieved with severely disabled children with the support of circus artists and the circus atmosphere. The positive results of this experiment have overwhelmed educators and artists alike, so that work with the affected children is to be continued after the winter break in March 2006.