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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8332592" data-attributes="member: 7015698">Hahaha, I worked for... less than a year? In the adminstration of a circus company. I don't think I'd have that much to tell...I learned that there's actually a lot of those small circus performing troupes that tour theatres all over the world (There was like three of us in town alone, though we do have a circus school too). A lot of shared creative spaces with modern dance troupes as well. A bunch of them are classified as non-profit. They usually invest in setting up their next show to lower their profit.I learned a few random terms, like German wheel, Korrean board, etc.I learned that almost ALL circus performers are actually self-employed who basically sub-contract to the various producers (Four of our performers were founding members of the company and were bonafide employees for taxes purposes). When it came to our production, the artists were paid a set sum to help with set-up and take down of the set.I learned that a circus performer can actually make a living out of it and that the 'big money', so to speak, actually comes from private/corporate event. One of our founding member told me story of being brought to like... Macao or Singapour for some rich dude's birthday party with like half the cast of a Cirque du Soleil show, only for the massive crowd of party goers to barely pay attention to them... but they totally got paid a lot for it so it didn't matter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> (I think it was like a six figure pay cheque for ONE PERFORMANCE! Insane!).I learned some rules about the Shengen zone in Europe, that a lot of theatres in France are funded by the various municipalities and that getting money from ANY sort of French beaurocracy is kinda a long winded process.I also learned that worker comp in the state of New York has, STUPIDLY, no special form or tip page or anything at all for the live stage performance industry, despite being the state with friggin' BROADWAY in it.I learned that there's a TON of brand spanking new theatre being built all over the place in China with state of the art equipment... but there's rarely anybody who actually knows how to USE that equipment there so you often have to bring along extra tech guys.I learn that you really can't just use a bog standard accounting program if you want to juggle FOUR different currencies because it's a nightmare. Acoomba was NOT set up for that! I can't believe they can work like that...I learned that if you want to store an RV size piece of equipment INDOOR for winter, you better make a reservation in Spring and that some places have the gall to call a parking lot "storage" which makes looking up such places a pain in the ass.Churches are good building to convert for circus activities.I also learned you can get some sweet deal on AirBnB in Spain during the off season.And finally, I learned about Gimli, Manitoba, that it was founded by Icelandic immigrant and that they have both a Viking statue AND a Viking festival! (I actually spent a WHOLE month in summer just researching festivals all over Canada because I had very little job with everybody else on holidays).</blockquote>

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