Kawa Music, founded by Hameed Khan in 2000 has been dedicated to promote, at an international level, the music and all other kinds of performing arts of the North of India and particularly from Rajasthan.

In order to extend its activities and reveal new talents, Kawa Music has decided to produce an inventive show, featuring a fusion of live music, dance, puppetry, theatre and circus skills.

To that end, in September 2007 Kawa Music teamed up Alessandro Maria Torboli, Hervé Vital and Hameed Khan "Kawa" to present Kawa Circus. This special creation celebrates the street performers of India, arguably the bearers of one of the most ancient mystical and magical circuses for centuries. Featured artists include a delightful dancer, Supki, three vibrant street performers, an acrobat, Viram, an acrobat and pole-vaulter, Raju, an acrobat and funambulist, Jagpal, and a musician.

Kawa Circus tells the story of an itinerant troupe of artists from a Rajasthani circus arriving with all their material and happiness in rhythms and music. While seated themselves, the public immediately shares the intimacy of this company, with the tyrannical director, the mesmerizing traditional dancer, the joyful acrobat and funambulist like a film star, the naïve but concerned acrobat and pole-vaulter and the musician always laughing at his colleagues.

The show starts with several breathless tricks constantly disturbed by tiffs and other personal matters, working the anger of the director off on his artists, who finally have the last word.

Alessandro Maria Torboli, a comedian and a director, studied pedagogy at the University of Verona before joining the dramatic experimental Academia in Venice. Performing with several Italian companies, he specialises in commedia dell'arte. He has produced three creations with the company Bel Viaggio in France, where he has been working for the last five years, performing with different companies, teaching and producing his own creations all over Europe. Now Alessandro Maria Torboli innovates the Indian traditional circus with the contemporary theatre by identifying the particularity of each artist expressing the five moods, according to his appurtenance, as an individual citizen of the world.

Hervé Vital graduated from the Estienne School and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques (ENSATT) in Paris and has been working as a costume and scene designer. First starting at the Opéra de Paris, he has been continuing to create costumes and staging for street performances for several French companies and for important events, ballets, theatres, operas all over the world. With Kawa Circus, Hervé Vital has been inspired by the Indian festivities. While using the traditional materials, colours and paintings of the handicrafts of Rajasthan, he renders the simplicity and colouring of Indian streets by adapting the decor and costumes to the requirements of acts.

Hameed Khan "Kawa," a percussionist (tablas) and an artistic director, descended from a long musical lineage from Rajasthan, exponent of both folk and classical Indian music, has been an innovator in the field of traditional music with original Western and Oriental fusions, such as The Trio Erik Marchand, Vishna Mohan Bhatt, lakshmi Shankar, Chico Bouchiki (Gypsy King), Najat Aatabou, Natacha Atlas, Henri Texier, Lo'Jo, Thierry Robin, Henri Agnel, Gulabi Sapera, Carolyn Carlson, the choreographer... and with the music of Rajasthan, like Musafir and Jaipur Brass Band, both founded by him. Through Kawa Circus, Hameed Khan "Kawa" explores a way of arranging the music of Rajasthan as a language to highlight the acts and the emotions with traditional instruments.

Thanks to this rich collaboration with Italian, French and Indian artists, Kawa Circus takes the ancestral Indian circus to a new level with amazing acts of poetry, humour, colour and freshness.

Kawa Circus is available to perform in indoor/outdoor venues and festivals throughout the world.