The Pulse (Gravity & Other Myths, Aurora, Adelaide Festival)
The Adelaide-based contemporary circus troupe takes a bold leap forward with its latest, ambitious show. There was a great deal…
Read moreThe Adelaide-based contemporary circus troupe takes a bold leap forward with its latest, ambitious show. There was a great deal…
Read moreAging Circus Bodies is part of a new series called Circus Bodies. The introductory article speaks to the importance of…
Read moreWorking in circus can be thrilling, energising and full of moments of joy and excitement. It can also be challenging,…
Read moreThe 5th edition of the Australian Circus Festival is occurring this February. Due to COVID-19, the competition is virtual. The…
Read moreWarning: seeing a performance by Brisbane circus company Circa may cause feelings of inadequacy, fear and awe. Take their 2019…
Read moreIn what was meant to be a time of celebration for the city, the five-day lockdown has left the local…
Read moreWe at CircusTalk are grateful for each and every one of our members. From discipline to background, the CircusTalk community…
Read moreTe Komititanga and Silo Park extension among venues for busker festival. An unmissable line-up of eight local street performers who…
Read moreCircus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus. In this…
Read moreThey’ve had to jump through hoops to get here but, after flight cancellations and border closures, Circa Contemporary Circus has…
Read moreOn Wednesday evening, Kerrie-Anne Kennerley was rushed to hospital after falling 4.5 metres during her trapeze number. The actress, who…
Read moreCircus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus. In this…
Read moreAs the doors of the Slipstream Circus burst open, a girl scoots past on a unicycle as another crosses the…
Read moreWhen the coronavirus pandemic first struck, it sent the members of a small Adelaide community circus into a spiral. Lolly…
Read moreAustralia has a unique role in the circus world where both traditional and contemporary circus flourish, and the international touring…
Read moreEmily Crockford, Gaelle Mellis and Abbie Madden have been named recipients of the 2020 National Arts and Disability Awards, presented…
Read moreAfter a year that has been devastating for the arts industry, Adelaide circus company Cirque Nocturne are set to bounce…
Read moreCircus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a new series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus….
Read moreOrganisers of Karridale’s long running WA Circus Festival have said that a heartbreaking decision to cancel the 2021 event is…
Read moreThe Australian parent company behind the Bread & Circus – World Buskers Festival has gone into liquidation, but organisers say…
Read moreAn Auckland magician who had thousands of dollars worth of circus props stolen from his van while he slept has…
Read moreCircus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a new series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus….
Read moreFlipside Circus and arTour have collaborated on one of the first large-scale tours since the COVID crisis hit Australia –…
Read moreAntonella Casella, an Australian circus advocate, producer, director, dramaturg and performer, has recently announced that she is stepping down from her…
Read more“I live in a very, very small one-room studio apartment with my partner, Amy Cater, in Fitzroy,” says Mike Finch,…
Read moreA collapse of the global events industry will not hurt Christchurch’s annual buskers festival. The Australian company behind the Bread…
Read moreWhat began as equestrian events in the 1860’s led to travelling troupes of performers and exotic animals which became known…
Read moreFlipside Circus and arTour are collaborating on one of the first large-scale tours since the COVID crisis hit Australia –…
Read moreA circus troupe is surviving on savings and the kindness of strangers while they’re stranded in a paddock in Melbourne’s…
Read moreOn today’s episode, Josh and Lyndsay talk about the shows that are taking place even with a global pandemic, including a…
Read moreThere’s no longer any need to run away to the circus. Instead, you can make your escape from this pandemic-riddled…
Read moreSeparating art from commerce is a means to future proof our artistic practice. As the Adelaide Fringe festival drew to…
Read moreBorn in China under the rule of Chairman Mao Zehdong, Guang Rong Lu began his circus training at the age…
Read moreA custom-built circus training centre, operated by Queensland’s largest youth arts organisation Flipside Circus, is set to open in Brisbane…
Read moreThis Sunday 36 acrobatic performers and dancers will come together for the first time at the Circa Contemporary Circus’s rehearsal…
Read moreAn array of art events will liven up the streets of Whangārei in October thanks to a $46,000 grant to…
Read moreTwo of the biggest – Circa in Brisbane and Circus Oz in Melbourne – have endured months of zero box…
Read moreTranscribing my conversation with Deb Wilks (Executive Director) and Kate Malone (Executive Producer) of Cluster Arts was like time travel. We spoke…
Read moreThe Flying Fruit Fly Circus has announced the five projects which will be supported through its COVID-19 seed funding initiative…
Read moreIn a first for the pioneering Australian performing arts company, Circa Contemporary Circus is launching a podcast. In Producing Heroes…
Read moreNo one doubts that health, the economy and education are valuable. Culture, however, is having a harder time mattering to…
Read moreShane is from the Lennon Family that has owned and operated circuses in Australia and New Zealand for over 120…
Read moreAfter running away to join the circus at the age of 21, the aerialist and trapeze artist has returned home…
Read moreCircus Arts Hub is the brainchild of Australia’s Antonella Casella, an original member of Rock n’ roll and Vulcana Women’s…
Read moreLeading arts figures say live audiences have “disappeared” and small organisations face bankruptcy during the coronavirus crisis, ahead of an…
Read moreAt Circa, we are familiar with crisis situations. Risk is part of our world, and one of the key elements…
Read moreThis inspired circus from Vietnam draws upon twin impulses in the contemporary art form to create something stunning, immersive and…
Read more“It’s an all-Indigenous circus show that has all the flavours typical of contemporary circus; you’ve got trapeze, corde lisse, tumbling…
Read moreAudience members got more than they bargained for when a large swing came apart at the Great Moscow Circus in…
Read moreAs the audience takes their seats, two feet poke out from beneath the curtain. In hindsight, it’s the first trick…
Read moreWhat is Fringe? In this video by Ken Fanning, hear from various circus fringe voices as they discuss the culture,…
Read moreLoic Marques is the Training Director at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. He is a French National sports acrobatic champion…
Read moreCirca, Australia’s contemporary circus company, keeps staying in the forefront on pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving…
Read moreIn this video interview, Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus performer Paul O’Keeffe talks about his cheeky side and how the show…
Read moreCircus today is well-suited to portraying love from the inside out, straying as it does into borderlands of dance and…
Read moreOne winning master-juggler will wing their way to Mexico after a competition next week in Katikati. “These guys are beasts…
Read moreOne 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…
Read moreLIFE – The Show is brought to us by Strut & Fret’s Creative Director Scott Maidment who returns with a…
Read morePhysical feats and disciplined artistry unite the worlds of dance and circus, despite the many differences between the artforms. In…
Read moreThe following speech is an edited version of a provocation delivered by Yaron Lifschitz at the 2020 ISPA Congress in…
Read moreA travelling circus has remained open using a generator in a coastal town which has been ravaged by bushfires. Residents…
Read moreSick presented by NICA’s Bachelor of Circus Arts third-year students is a slick, sophisticated and utterly human contemporary circus work set…
Read moreAustralia’s national circus company, Circus Oz has announced exciting new artistic plans that will reposition the company within the new…
Read moreA man (Robert Murray) draped in robes sings a Schubert aria, his knit hat, fingerless gloves and staff in hand…
Read moreOpera Queensland and contemporary circus company Circa are joining forces to present Christoph Gluck’s much-loved opera ‘Orpheus & Eurydice’. In…
Read moreIn Part 4 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
Read moreIn the continuing series titled Adventures in Circus Research curated by academic, author, and educator Alisan Funk, we will explore the…
Read moreIn Part 3 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
Read moreInternationally 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…
Read moreOf course I had heard the stories about Circa. Consistently in festival delivery mode. Hundreds of performances a year around…
Read moreFound in the popular inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Prahran; the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is the only course…
Read moreSeven acrobats in red fly across the stage, prop each other up, climb atop a tower of their kin, play…
Read moreCircus is an exciting and challenging subject for the camera. While there is no shortage of amateur and professional videographers…
Read moreCircus Oz announces that Penny Miles is appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director. Circus Oz Chair, Nick Yates, explained that…
Read moreA circus in Adelaide has been shut down after two performers were injured in separate incidents in less than a…
Read moreAfter three years as Artistic Director and co-CEO of Circus Oz, Rob Tannion has moved on to a new role…
Read moreSpectators at a circus show in Australia were left stunned when a performer fell from a trapeze and was left…
Read moreAt only 17 years old, Debra Batton was told she was too old to be a gymnast, so she quit….
Read moreWunderage is Rob Tannion’s last show with Cirque Oz before he heads over to work with Cirque du Soleil. It…
Read moreFringe. Whether you’re talking Adelaide, Edinburgh, Hollywood or Prague, a Fringe Festival can make you or break you. As a…
Read moreIt is a precious opportunity to learn about and from circus from folks who have traveled with and performed in…
Read moreCircus Oz announces that Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave the company on Friday, 28 June 2019 as…
Read moreCircus training delivers multiple mental health benefits for children, and cost savings to the broader community, an Australian study reveals….
Read moreOn their 10th anniversary, circus theatre company The Dust Palace is going from strength to strength. Rebecca Fox talks to…
Read moreStep into the Hive: the first thing you might notice on the Hot Brown Honey stage is the giant honeycomb…
Read moreAs a circus artist, how do you sign up with an agency? Which agency would get you the types of…
Read moreCircus Oz and Company 2 will create a mesmerising world this June with the world premiere of Wunderage – an…
Read moreCirca is one of the great success stories in Australia’s performing arts scene, rising from a boutique operation in Brisbane…
Read moreThe age-old relationship between audience and performer “The action of clapping is actually a quite primitive one, initially being used…
Read more“Bigger is better” is a long time American circus tagline. It needs no interpretation. Adhering to this slogan, one would…
Read moreYUCK Circus and theatre work Rest have shared the top prize at the 2019 Fringe World Awards, which were presented…
Read moreSydney Tuesday 5 February, 2019. This June, ground-breaking contemporary circus troupe Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam will make their Opera House…
Read moreYUCK Circus is a show which couldn’t have been timed better. With the #metoo movement and the recent Gillette advertising…
Read moreAn English busker who boxes with his audience has won the Iron Chicken award at the Bread & Circus –…
Read moreFrom Perth and Sydney to Castlemaine, as Australia’s international arts festivals reveal their programs it’s become increasingly common to see…
Read moreGarry Starr wants to save theatre. In order to complete his mission, this clown in a Shakespearean ruff – and sometimes little…
Read moreMakeup and mustaches, feathers and leather, bananas and balloons, these opposites are toyed with in just the right proportion to…
Read moreCirca is one of the great Australian success stories in the arts. In just over a decade, artistic director Yaron…
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