A circus performer can show her number in any country, without the need to know much about the language or the culture of that particular country. In this sense she is a transcultural performer. The audience experiences the circus by seeing their video image projected onto the virtual environment. The result is an immersive, visually compelling interactive environment where the audience can have a first person experience of a circus story. The language of the circus is essentially transformational.
Objects have a meaning according to their role in the circus number.
When a circus object appears, it brings a whole set of possible meanings. When a chair is presented just as a chair, it is usually for horses and elephants to sit on it and functions as a humanizing factor for the animals. We started to play with our basic transformational circus grammar by placing a chair in the real space. This chair projects simmetrically onto a multicolored virtual chair in the digital circus. When a person from the audience sits on the real chair she will see her video avatar sitting on the virtual chair.