We can use different spaces, channels, and forms of expression when we speak about the circus. Aesthetic, technical, journalistic, and interdisciplinary. Cultural journalism is relocating in recent years. It opens up new possibilities, but circus can also be communicated through research across art forms and societal sectors. We spoke to a communication professor and a circus researcher about the subject.

In journalism, circus – and all other art forms – can be conveyed through two professional paradigms, which approach the subject and its sources in different ways. This is what Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, who is a professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, where she specializes in cultural journalism and cultural criticism, tells us:

"The aesthetic paradigm is criticism based on the norms of art and culture. Analytical perspectives and mediating approaches are used as a starting point, as the intention is to explain and convey culture, such as in the culture review. As a genre this is characteristic of cultural journalism in particular, but does not draw on sources in the traditional sense. The journalistic paradigm draws on the norms and values that we in a Western context typically associate with, for example, news journalism or political journalism, such as information dissemination, objectivity, the role of the fourth estate/power, and a critical approach to sources."