It is as a reference establishment that CIRCa is committed to promoting the development of circus arts. For this, its missions as a National Circus Arts Center are implemented through the different axes of its project: cultural season, traveling big top, support for creation, cultural actions, Current Circus Festival, etc.
A unique history and different developments characterize CIRCa, which today employs a team of 16 permanent staff.
The CIRC is a major space for experimentation for the circus arts on a national and international scale and allows the dissemination of shows mainly circus but also other performing arts (theater, dance, music ...)
To create or rehearse shows, innovate artistically, search for new circus techniques or new apparatus, professional circus artists need suitable spaces in which they can install their apparatus (trapeze, ropes, etc.), their scenographies, or see their capitals established over time.
Several premises take advantage of the existing built heritage of the old and spacious military stables which have been rehabilitated to house:
* a 480 m² rehearsal room with a height under the grill of 11m allowing the work of so-called "aerial" apparatus completed by dressing rooms, technical rooms and a warm-up studio
* accommodation for artistic teams: 6 equipped apartments of 80 m² each accommodating 6 to 7 people
* a restaurant, the Cant'Auch, for artists and the public, managed by a cooperative society allowing professional integration
* a place of life for artists and the CIRCa team
* reception-ticket office
* the offices of the CIRCa team
* storage rooms and workshops.
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The halls and marquees of the performances:
* A permanent marquee, the Dôme de Gascogne. Culminating at more than 40 meters, this permanent marquee carries the Auscitan colors high and its impressive dimensions are only one of the many originalities of this XNUMXst century capital.
A real place for shows, during the Circa Festival and during the cultural season or other events, it offers a capacity of 680 seats and up to 1000 seats for concerts or other standing events.
By its modern and original design, with its wooden frame without interior poles and its double insulating canvas, the Dôme de Gascogne offers several configurations that promote the diversity of the shows on offer. Its height under dome is 20m, (13m under grill), its interior dimensions of 25x 40m.
A unique insulation process in France. Its wooden frame consists of 22 pillars 20 meters high and 2 tons each, covering 1000 m2 without interior poles. Sound and thermal insulation is provided by a double fabric: one black interior, the other white exterior which does not absorb heat. Between the two, an insulator prevents the thermal losses of traditional capitals. While offering ideal "working" conditions to artists. Discover in more detail the Circassian Innovation and Research Center, which has become a benchmark establishment in the development of circus arts and a national circus arts center since 2011.
* The Bernard Turin Room: with a surface area of 480 m², it offers with its 11m height under the grill the best working conditions for aerial apparatus. It is completed with dressing rooms, technical rooms and a warm-up studio. This room is neither rented nor made available; it is used as a work room by the companies hosted in residence by CIRCa.
* The Municipal Theater of the city of Auch: it now offers 400 usable seats.
* The Cuzin Center is the former chapel of the Auch seminary.
Restored in 1992, the building now has an auditorium (170 seats) and exhibitions on the 1st floor and on the ground floor, offices and a municipal hall for associative activities.
* A "marquee field" to accommodate two traveling marquees
