One of the most risk-taking shows in town right now is a circus—and we’re not necessarily talking about the Dust Palace’s gravity-defying aerial…
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LIFE – The Show is brought to us by Strut & Fret’s Creative Director Scott Maidment who returns with a…
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Physical feats and disciplined artistry unite the worlds of dance and circus, despite the many differences between the artforms. In…
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The following speech is an edited version of a provocation delivered by Yaron Lifschitz at the 2020 ISPA Congress in…
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A travelling circus has remained open using a generator in a coastal town which has been ravaged by bushfires. Residents…
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Sick presented by NICA’s Bachelor of Circus Arts third-year students is a slick, sophisticated and utterly human contemporary circus work set…
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Australia’s national circus company, Circus Oz has announced exciting new artistic plans that will reposition the company within the new…
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A man (Robert Murray) draped in robes sings a Schubert aria, his knit hat, fingerless gloves and staff in hand…
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Opera Queensland and contemporary circus company Circa are joining forces to present Christoph Gluck’s much-loved opera ‘Orpheus & Eurydice’. In…
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In Part 4 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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In the continuing series titled Adventures in Circus Research curated by academic, author, and educator Alisan Funk, we will explore the…
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In Part 3 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Internationally acclaimed, wildly theatrical and incendiary circus performer Anna Lumb is about to set Melbourne Fringe alight with her new…
Read moreIn Part 2 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
Read moreIn Part 1 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Of course I had heard the stories about Circa. Consistently in festival delivery mode. Hundreds of performances a year around…
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Found in the popular inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Prahran; the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is the only course…
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Seven acrobats in red fly across the stage, prop each other up, climb atop a tower of their kin, play…
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Circus is an exciting and challenging subject for the camera. While there is no shortage of amateur and professional videographers…
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Circus Oz announces that Penny Miles is appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director. Circus Oz Chair, Nick Yates, explained that…
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A circus in Adelaide has been shut down after two performers were injured in separate incidents in less than a…
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After three years as Artistic Director and co-CEO of Circus Oz, Rob Tannion has moved on to a new role…
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Spectators at a circus show in Australia were left stunned when a performer fell from a trapeze and was left…
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At only 17 years old, Debra Batton was told she was too old to be a gymnast, so she quit….
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Wunderage is Rob Tannion’s last show with Cirque Oz before he heads over to work with Cirque du Soleil. It…
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Fringe. Whether you’re talking Adelaide, Edinburgh, Hollywood or Prague, a Fringe Festival can make you or break you. As a…
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It is a precious opportunity to learn about and from circus from folks who have traveled with and performed in…
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Circus Oz announces that Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave the company on Friday, 28 June 2019 as…
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Circus training delivers multiple mental health benefits for children, and cost savings to the broader community, an Australian study reveals….
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On their 10th anniversary, circus theatre company The Dust Palace is going from strength to strength. Rebecca Fox talks to…
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Step into the Hive: the first thing you might notice on the Hot Brown Honey stage is the giant honeycomb…
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As a circus artist, how do you sign up with an agency? Which agency would get you the types of…
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Circus Oz and Company 2 will create a mesmerising world this June with the world premiere of Wunderage – an…
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Circa is one of the great success stories in Australia’s performing arts scene, rising from a boutique operation in Brisbane…
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The age-old relationship between audience and performer “The action of clapping is actually a quite primitive one, initially being used…
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“Bigger is better” is a long time American circus tagline. It needs no interpretation. Adhering to this slogan, one would…
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YUCK Circus and theatre work Rest have shared the top prize at the 2019 Fringe World Awards, which were presented…
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Sydney Tuesday 5 February, 2019. This June, ground-breaking contemporary circus troupe Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam will make their Opera House…
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YUCK Circus is a show which couldn’t have been timed better. With the #metoo movement and the recent Gillette advertising…
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An English busker who boxes with his audience has won the Iron Chicken award at the Bread & Circus –…
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From Perth and Sydney to Castlemaine, as Australia’s international arts festivals reveal their programs it’s become increasingly common to see…
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Garry Starr wants to save theatre. In order to complete his mission, this clown in a Shakespearean ruff – and sometimes little…
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Makeup and mustaches, feathers and leather, bananas and balloons, these opposites are toyed with in just the right proportion to…
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Circa is one of the great Australian success stories in the arts. In just over a decade, artistic director Yaron…
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Alex Mizzen is a creative who uses circus and dance-theatre to make evocative, challenging works. She is a world-class hand-balancer,…
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Emerging from humble beginnings in the Brisbane suburb of West End, Flipside Circus grew rapidly from a small community organisation,…
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Celebrating 40 years of Circus Oz in 2018, Australia’s leading troupe of theatre, satire and rock’n’roll keep the thrills coming…
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BETWEEN Hanoi’s glamorous French Quarter — where Graham Greene penned The Quiet American — and the Grand Opera House is…
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A Day in the Life of Lucy Frost, Touring Production Manager at Circus Oz. Model Citizens Tour 2018 I wake…
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This dark work-in-progress (AutoCannibal) by Captain Ruin (aka Mitch Jones) was what he came up with in creation mode with…
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Three of Brisbane festival’s eight world premieres come from some of Australia’s most exciting companies – and their takes on…
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According to their artistic director, Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s En Masse “speaks of fresh starts and old endings, of violence and…
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The Australian circus scene is getting a very deadly shake-up with the arrival of ‘Chasing Smoke’, the only all-Indigenous contemporary…
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The last couple of years have seen Brisbane’s circus profile on the rise, with a large number of circus companies…
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Roll up, roll up for the 250th anniversary of circus as we know it. Daring high-wire acts! Death-defying trapezes! Crazy…
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Anni Davey joined the Flying Fruit Fly Circus as its new Artistic Director in July. She reflects on a mid-career…
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The mayor of Montréal opened the 2018 Montréal Completement Cirque Festival with a speech that lauded the city as “la capitale mondiale…
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Roll up, roll up. This year marks a huge milestone for Circus Oz as they celebrate 40 years as Australia’s…
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Some of the routines and feats that Gravity & Other Myths, an Australian physical theater company, create, can be described…
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Coinciding with its year-long 40th birthday celebrations, Flying Fruit Fly Circus (FFFC) has received $300,000 in funding from the Turnbull…
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With its roots embedded in the thriving bohemian and nomadic local arts scene, the origins of Brisbane’s (Queensland, Australia) contemporary…
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Casus, the contemporary Australian acrobatic company that brought Knee Deep into the circus world is creating a new show entitled…
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Tim Coldwell tosses a bolt of old canvas painted a faded green and gold on to a benchtop. He turns…
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MELBOURNE-based One Fell Swoop Circus gives the Adelaide premiere of By A Thread, a circus show based on — and…
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PERFORMERS in an Ethiopian circus act forced to cancel shows at the Fringe due to visa issues have been granted…
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Trigger warning: sexual and physical abuse inflicted upon young children. A group of men and women from a Blue Mountains…
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The Western Australian Circus Festival takes place every year in January in beautiful Karridale, in the famous Margaret River region…
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The Sydney Festival Circus Program 2018 confirms the leading-edge, world-class nature of Australian Contemporary Circus. The 2018 Sydney Festival, under…
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There is nothing more satisfying than walking out of theatre having been inspired by an amazing circus show. However, a…
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Circus, commedia dell’arte and performance art collide in this masterwork from Australian circus company, Acrobat. It’s Not for Everyone, the…
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Some people start their New Year fighting back tears, drunk-dialling their exes to beg for one more chance. Others declare impossible…
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In its 42nd year, Sydney Festival takes place from the 6–28 January 2018, to turn the Australian capital into a…
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Brisbane’s circus sector is internationally recognised. What conditions led to such creativity and how can its future be secured? From…
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The art of circus is being used to break down communication barriers for adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
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The Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association (ACAPTA) has been wound up, with its services transferred to Theatre Network Australia….
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This September, Australia’s next generation of circus talents will be on show when the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA)…
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Kristy Seymour tells the story of her mission to bring circus to children with autism, and the struggles she has…
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Antonella Casella’s influence on Australian circus reads like a fascinating historical primer on this contemporary art form. Whatever company she…
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Circus Talk has a new contributor! Hamish McCormick will write about Australian circus for us, which is really an extension…
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Call for Papers The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University presents Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific…
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Late last year Yaron Lifschitz (above), the CEO of Brisbane’s circus company Circa, made an incendiary speech slamming the major arts companies…
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Circus Talk is monitoring a series of reports emerging from Australia that describe the situation surrounding the abrupt shutting down…
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As several aerialists in vibrant costumes glide over the heads of audience members and a strongwoman holds up a team…
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This February NICA performance teacher and trainer Zebastian Hunter will travel to Beijing International Arts School to direct a student…
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IF you saw Le Petit Circus last year, come back and see it again. It’s bigger, bolder and more ambitious,…
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LIKE one of the lines from the film noir narration that crackles through the gaffer-taped speakers in Empyrean, a…
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Showtime star Lisa Lottie creates an ever-changing kaleidoscope of coloured patterns in midair using special hula-hoops which contain computer-controlled LED…
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When the American Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it was to shut earlier this week, it seemed the…
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Within millimetres of the pavement, myriad motorcycles roar past, beeping furiously. Street vendors jostle for space with doormen of swank…
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These two Brisbane women are really bringing the circus to town. Their firm, Cluster Arts, is one of only two…
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“I’m the supreme alien overlord goddess who comes down and basically abducts the whole show.” Welcome to the world of…
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Circus Oz is about to get tumbled. New artistic director Rob Tannion has taken charge of the trapeze and he’s planning…
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Emma Serjeant is a prolific circus artist, producer, director and instructor from Australia whose work has touched all of their…
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