Jonathan Flatley identifies a type of aesthetic mood in which it is possible to recognize the elements that produce mood before it evaporates, and it is the process of trying to hold onto that elusive quality after it goes that becomes a feature of mood. Mood is considered to be an intangible quality that is neither focused nor directed, but it can be perceived in its aesthetic production. Such moods create connections to recent political spaces within culture. While staging a cheerful mood has been fundamental to the success of traditional circus, recent circus and its music offer a far wider range of moods including that of melancholy. Through a variation in the program and the music, the circus show re-establishes an overall mood and it deviates from the cheerful mood most noticeably with an aerial act that conveys poignancy. Perhaps mood is not what comes immediately to mind for circus but it can be argued that the aestheticized space of circus sets and resets mood in each act and throughout the show. This paper considers how circus sets up a cultural space with its moods and in collaboration with music. Peta Tait | Cheerful, Nostalgic, Melancholic – Circus Moodiness as Cultural Space Another musical reminiscence is the Gavotte Circus Renz, written by Hermann Fliege in 1882.Keynote | Prof. Nowadays it is part of the standard repertoire of ambitious xylophonists. Souvenir de Cirque Renz ( Memory of Circus Renz) is the title of a quick and technically demanding galop for xylophone and orchestra, written around 1894 by Hungarian composer Gustav Peter (1833-1919).It was directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, actors included René Deltgen ( Renz), Paul Klinger ( Harms), Angelika Hauff ( Bettina), Gunnar Möller, Willi Rose and Alice Treff.
On 20 April 1879 the circus moved into the former Berlin market hall (later Friedrichstadt-Palast). Because of the construction of Berlin Friedrichstraße station, the property had to be abandoned. On Johann Strauss II and Benjamin Bilse' Band gave the Berlin premiere of The Blue Danube in that building.
The circus' Berlin headquarters was established in 1842 as Circus Olympic. Dutch Circus Renz International, Circus Renz Berlin and the unrelated Circus Herman Renz, who are often falsely assumed to be linked to the famous dynasty. Apart from them, there are other circusses of the name Renz out of Germany, e.g. Among them, Circus Universal Renz and Zirkus Renz Manege are the biggest. Today several circus companies in Germany make use of the family name Renz.
The company had several stationary buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Breslau and Vienna. It was established in 1842 in Berlin by Ernst Jakob Renz (1815–1892) as Circus Olympic and existed until 1897. Former Circus Renz building, Berlin, 1898Ĭircus Renz was a German circus company.