{"id":5448,"date":"2022-03-25T15:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T07:44:13","slug":"graceful-tough-acrobatic-in-circus-you-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/5448\/graceful-tough-acrobatic-in-circus-you-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Graceful, tough, acrobatic: In circus you can be anything you want to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I walk towards an abandoned industrial building called The Vasim <\/em>in Nijmegen,<\/em> I hear the drills and sounds of builders transforming the place. I enter the building and walk down the cold, dark, and a little creepy hallway until I reach a small, red door with the words \u2018circus space\u2019 above it. As I open the door I am entering a new world. I am seeing a colourful room with high ceilings and aerial silks hanging down. One silk is blue, the other is yellow. I see Yvon Holman warming up. I watch how she gracefully climbs up the silk until she is high enough to hang upside down and to do a split in the air. Suddenly I understand the world of Yvon: climbing up the soft silk to fly in the air. I am intrigued and want to know more about the Vasim, so where did it all start?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t