No account. No ad trackers. The little show runs on your device.

Fleawinder: Living Circus

Meet the resident troupe, then make a flea and a little world of its own

Pip lifts. Nova balances. Bugg revs. Then your flea joins the troupe with its own calling, look, habitat, memories, and way of changing the show. The circus grows through ordinary attention, in small strange moments that feel alive.

Inside the living circus

Meet the performers, their world, and the stories they leave behind.

iPhone
Fleawinder circus performance running on an iPhone, with a tiny performer beneath the lit big top.
A circus performance beneath the big top

Circus

World

Paper

Fleas & Homes

Inside Fleawinder

One circus. Four ways into its life.

Four connected places hold the performances, journeys, stories, friendships, and homes of the troupe.

Fleawinder circus performance running on an iPhone, with a tiny performer beneath the lit big top.
A circus performance beneath the big top

Circus

What is happening in the ring?

Wind the show, follow complete performances, open the show program, and see how the troupe turns attention into a night worth remembering.

  • Eight founding acts
  • Complete shows
  • Spatial stage
  • Show history
The Living Route on iPhone, showing the circus journey and named destinations on an illustrated map.
The circus travels along the Living Route

World

Where is the circus, and where can it go?

Travel the Living Route, visit changing grounds, follow public story threads, and discover how each place develops a character of its own.

  • Living Route
  • Grounds and rooms
  • Travel
  • World ledger
Explore the World
The Daily Flea newspaper on iPhone, with illustrated headlines reporting events from the living circus.
The Daily Flea reports from around the grounds

Paper

What has the circus learned and reported?

Read the Daily Flea, follow public consequences, revisit full articles, and watch a shared history accumulate without exposing private flea life.

  • Daily Flea
  • Newsroom
  • Corrections
  • Public archive
A colorful colony roster on iPhone, showing distinct flea performers, moods, and activities.
The troupe gathers in Fleas & Homes

Fleas & Homes

Who are these fleas becoming?

Meet the colony, create a flea, build a home, develop relationships, practice acts, preserve memories, and give each performer a recognizable life.

  • Create a flea
  • Homes and nooks
  • Inner Life
  • Progression
Meet Fleas & Homes

Before the digital circus

A Rich History

Flea circuses have captivated audiences for over 400 years—from 16th-century goldsmiths who harnessed live fleas to demonstrate impossibly tiny metalwork, to Victorian showmen who packed London’s Regent Street with miniature chariot races and cannon shows. Fleawinder: Living Circus carries that tradition into a Living Circus: a persistent digital world where a small troupe performs, wanders, and makes room for new stories.

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Robert Hooke's engraved flea from Micrographia, published in 1665
1665
An 1886 illustration of fleas racing with miniature bicycles and carriages
1886
A modern flea circus presented inside a decorated suitcase
Today

The founding troupe

Meet four members of the troupe.

Each act belongs to a recognizable performer with a home, relationships, memories, practice, and a place in the wider world.

Meet every act