About – Hupdate

Hupdate is the place to go for news about contemporary circus happenings around the globe. It is also the place to read reviews about performances and interviews with artists, directors and others involved in the expanding contemporary circus movement.

Hupdate welcomes guest writers, critics and bloggers. To pitch your idea, contact the editor at kimATkimzynDOTcom

Besides editing Hupdate, Kim Campbell is the editor of American Circus Educators magazine, as well as editor for Third Coast Review, and a former staff writer for Gapers Block, where she writes about arts and culture with a focus on circus and theater.

See below for Kim’s circus writing outside of Hupdate:

Circus Stories, Le Cirque Vu Par- Review of Montreal Completement Cirque Festival 2015

Vive La Difference

Circus Promoters Professional Development Blog

Inside Ephemeral Architectures with Gandini Juggling

Viva Circus in Vegas! Marketing Yourself in a Big Town

Telling Stories with Body & Buildings; A Circus Tour of Melbourne with Emma Serjeant

Festivals & Residencies—How, Why & Where to Get Your Work Out There

Its Big in Japan—an Interview with Impresario Mikio Oshima on the Changing Face of Circus in Japan

Sign on the Dotted Line—the Importance of Contracts in Circus and How to Understand Them

Secrets of a Circus Casting Director-an Interview with Krista Monson

Free Yourself—Living as an Independent Circus Artist