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Cirque Romanès’ Folies Nomades celebrates a wandering family’s poetic, music‑driven circus tradition that turns every performance into a living encounter between art and freedom.
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🎪 Romanes Circus Returns to Paris with “Folies Nomades”

13 January 2026
@crushofficiel À seulement 25 ans, Rose a hérité de l'entreprise familiale, le cirque Romanès. Et même pour les fêtes, elle ne compte pas se reposer ! « Noël chez les gitans » 📺 #UnJourUnDoc, du lundi au vendredi à partir de 13:40 sur M6 #sinformersurtiktok ♬ son original - crushofficiel

🌙 Song of the Wandering Heart

In the same way The Romanès Circus lets its stories roam freely through acrobatics, poetry, and Roma tradition, LADANIVA’s “Saraiman” becomes a musical mirror to Folies Nomades—a vibrant, wandering love cry carried across borders. The song’s reimagined lăutărească melodies echo the circus’s devotion to freedom, longing, and cultural resilience, its swirling rhythms moving like aerial silks in motion. Both the show and the song celebrate communities that survive through art, transforming nostalgia into movement and memory into music, inviting Paris to step into a world where emotion travels lightly and nothing—neither love nor tradition—ever stays still.

🎶 🎪✨🎻🤹‍♂️🤡🐎🕊️🌙👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🎨🌀🌍🤸🎸🥁 🔊 Saraiman - LADANIVA




“Circus is not a show — it is a way of inhabiting the world".

With Folies Nomades, Cirque Romanès returns to Paris to remind us that Tzigane art is not a fixed heritage, but a flame passed from heart to heart.

🎪 The Return of a Free Circus

Cirque Romanès once again raises its tent on Boulevard de l’Amiral-Bruix, from October 25, 2025 to April 25, 2026, reconnecting with its Parisian roots while preserving its nomadic identity. Considered one of the last Tzigane circuses in the world, the family troupe offers a form of circus art built on closeness, transmission, and the celebration of a living culture carried across generations. Folies Nomades invites audiences into a space where poetry moves freely, carried by gestures that are simple, sincere, and deeply human.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 A Family of Artists, A Story in Motion

The show brings together the new faces of the Romanès family, heirs to a lineage of artists dating back to the early 20th century. Tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, contortionists, dancers, and fire performers follow one another beneath the tent, each act revealing a fragment of Tzigane memory. Expressive movement, musical intensity, and family roots shape a universe where virtuosity blends with tenderness.

🎨 An Artistic Direction Rooted in the Essential

Rose Bouglione Romanès, Délia Romanès, and Alexandre Romanès lead the artistic direction with an aesthetic that embraces simplicity and sincerity. There are no trained animals or complex technical devices here — the stage remains intentionally bare to foreground humanity, fragility, and the raw beauty of movement. This artisanal, intimate approach reinforces Cirque Romanès as a place of genuine encounter.

🎻 A Living Music that Carries the Story

The live orchestra — Marian Badoi on accordion, Costel Dangalas on double bass, Benoît Vincent and Vincent Simonelli on guitar — shapes the rhythm of the performance and defines its sonic identity. Their continuous presence supports artists Diane Rodriguez, Antoine Redon, and Rose Bouglione, weaving each act into a vibrant musical continuity. This musical heartbeat, essential to Tzigane circus tradition, transforms the show into a sensory journey where every note becomes a narrative thread.

🌿 A Tradition That Keeps Traveling

Folies Nomades continues the artistic lineage of Cirque Romanès, affirming a practice rooted in Tzigane culture, transmission, and connection with the audience. Presented every Saturday at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the show reminds us that circus can still be a refuge for stories, gestures, and music that wander. Beneath the tent, audiences discover an art that seeks not to impress but to move — an art that, like nomadic life itself, keeps advancing, carried by freedom.


You can book your seats for the Romanès Circus through their official ticketing partners:

👉 Reserve your tickets for Cirque Romanès on BilletRéduc https://www.billetreduc.com/spectacle-cirque-romanes.htm

👉 Reserve your tickets for Cirque Romanès on Fnac Spectacles https://www.fnacspectacles.com/artist/cirque-tzigane-romanes/

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Romanès Circus : Opening the Road to New Horizons

The Blessing Song Ritual
One of the quiet traditions inside the Romanès family is that every new performer—whether a child born into the family or an artist joining the troupe—receives a personal “blessing song” played only once, backstage, before their very first entrance. It’s not written down, never recorded, and never repeated in public. The musicians improvise it on the spot, shaping the melody around the performer’s mood, fear, excitement, or energy that day. Inside the family, they say the song “opens the road” — a way of welcoming the newcomer into the lineage of wandering artists. Most spectators never know this moment exists, but for the Romanès, it’s one of the most sacred rituals of the circus.

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