Abstract
The latest crisis of the Covid-pandemic has highlighted the prevalent precarity of the performing arts sector. In this context, this paper asks the question of how to imagine and organize alternatives to our organized world. Following an alternative organizing approach, two central processes in constructing alternatives – the questioning of the organized world and the construction of imagined futures – (i.e., Parker et al., 2014), create a space in-between. Following this recent theorizing, this happens in ‘new organizational spaces’ where not only narratives about another future are found but also actual attempts to organize differently in real contexts and situations (i.e., Gümüsay and Reinecke, 2022). Therefore, the single-case study of The Sphere is analysing their development and attempt of finding a new organised order for contemporary circus. Future findings should help us understand better how attempts of alternative organizing are created and enacted along with enabling and hindering factors.