Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 4 –’Sound’
In Part 4 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Australia and New Zealand
Australian Circus at the Hub of Global Entertainment: Histories and Consequences
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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Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 3–‘Lights’
In Part 3 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Anna Lumb In Hard to reach Places Comes to Melbourne Fringe
Internationally acclaimed, wildly theatrical and incendiary circus performer Anna Lumb is about to set Melbourne Fringe alight with her new…
Read more >Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 2 – Process
In Part 2 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
Read more >Gravity & Other Myths: Amidst the Chaos Part 1 – ‘Themes’
In Part 1 of a four part video series titled Amidst the Chaos on Gravity & Other Myths, director Hamish…
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Circa’s New Paths to Success
Of course I had heard the stories about Circa. Consistently in festival delivery mode. Hundreds of performances a year around…
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Meet the Circus School – Community and Kinship, the NICA Culture in Australia
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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Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight—Casus Has Circus in Their DNA
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 Photography in a Nutshell with Mark Turner
Circus is an exciting and challenging subject for the camera. While there is no shortage of amateur and professional videographers…
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Penny Miles Appointed As Circus Oz Executive Director
Circus Oz announces that Penny Miles is appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director. Circus Oz Chair, Nick Yates, explained that…
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Circus Rio Shut Down After Two Performers Suffer Serious Injuries in Less Than a Week
A circus in Adelaide has been shut down after two performers were injured in separate incidents in less than a…
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Shaking the Snow Globe: Exit Interview with Circus Oz’s Rob Tannion
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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Circus Performer Seriously Injured After 36 Foot Fall in Front of Horrified Audience
Spectators at a circus show in Australia were left stunned when a performer fell from a trapeze and was left…
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Meet the 59-Year-Old Acrobat Flipping Stereotypes in Casting Off
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 the Daring New Circus Show that Involves the Audience
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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Hot Hints and Tips to Survive (and Thrive!) at Fringe
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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New Circus Children’s Book About Historic Australian Performer May Wirth–Interview with the Author
It is a precious opportunity to learn about and from circus from folks who have traveled with and performed in…
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End of an Era for Circus Oz, As Rob Tannion is Leaving the Company
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 Kids Are Happy Kids
Circus training delivers multiple mental health benefits for children, and cost savings to the broader community, an Australian study reveals….
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Circus ‘As an Artistic Experience’
On their 10th anniversary, circus theatre company The Dust Palace is going from strength to strength. Rebecca Fox talks to…
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The Queens of Hot Brown Honey Are Finally Centerstage
Step into the Hive: the first thing you might notice on the Hot Brown Honey stage is the giant honeycomb…
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Do You Really Need a Circus Agent?
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 to Create a Mesmerising World this June with the World Premiere of WUNDERAGE
Circus Oz and Company 2 will create a mesmerising world this June with the world premiere of Wunderage – an…
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Circa’s Peepshow is a Coup for Castlemaine State Festival
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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To Clap or Not to Clap
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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Brains, Heart and Space for the Simple: a Conversation with Gravity and Other Myths
“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 Rest Share Top Fringe World Award
YUCK Circus and theatre work Rest have shared the top prize at the 2019 Fringe World Awards, which were presented…
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French-Vietnamese Circus Makes Sydney Opera House Debut
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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Fringe World: YUCK Circus is Ready to Kick Art
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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Fraser Hooper Wins Iron Chicken award for Best Busker at Christchurch’s Bread & Circus
An English busker who boxes with his audience has won the Iron Chicken award at the Bread & Circus –…
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Why Circus Arts and Festivals are a Match Made in Heaven
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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Stunning Circus, Clowns with Ruffs and Magical Comedy in Pick of the Night Shows
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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A Second Coming–Australia’s Briefs Factory Confronts NYC with Queer Circus, Drag & Burlesque
Makeup and mustaches, feathers and leather, bananas and balloons, these opposites are toyed with in just the right proportion to…
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Mixing Mozart and Acrobatics in Circa’s Delightful Family Show
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’s Invisible Things
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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Flipside Circus Celebrates 20 Years!
Emerging from humble beginnings in the Brisbane suburb of West End, Flipside Circus grew rapidly from a small community organisation,…
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Circus Oz’s New Festival ‘Sidesault’ is a Multi-Dimensional Masterpiece
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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Perth Festival to Feature Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam’s Lang Toi
BETWEEN Hanoi’s glamorous French Quarter — where Graham Greene penned The Quiet American — and the Grand Opera House is…
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Backstage with Model Citizens : Words By Lucy Gamsby Frost & Photos by Luke David Kellett
A Day in the Life of Lucy Frost, Touring Production Manager at Circus Oz. Model Citizens Tour 2018 I wake…
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AutoCannibal–Circus Gets Dark
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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Dystopia, Trauma and Grotesque Ballet: the Gut-Wrenching Darkness of Modern Circus
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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En Masse Is An Arresting Fusion of Circus, Dance and Classical Music
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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Chasing Smoke is Pushing the Boundaries of Circus
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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Are Community Circus Shows Still Relevant? –A Case Study with Vulcana Women’s Circus
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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Circus Tradition and Experimentation Make a Seductive Mix in Lexicon
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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Extraordinarily Human: Training the Next Generation of Circus Artists
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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Is Australia the Next Circus Superpower?
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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Circus Oz Celebrate 40 Years with ‘Precarious’
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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Gravity & Other Myths Pushes Their Art Form to the Limit
Some of the routines and feats that Gravity & Other Myths, an Australian physical theater company, create, can be described…
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$300,000 Granted to Flying Fruit Fly Circus
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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Rock N Roll Circus: Pioneers of the Brisbane Contemporary Circus Sector
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 – You & I (Teaser)
Casus, the contemporary Australian acrobatic company that brought Knee Deep into the circus world is creating a new show entitled…
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Circus Oz at 40: From Self-Made Tent to Global Success, in Many Tricky Moves
Tim Coldwell tosses a bolt of old canvas painted a faded green and gold on to a benchtop. He turns…
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Adelaide Fringe review 2018: By a Thread
MELBOURNE-based One Fell Swoop Circus gives the Adelaide premiere of By A Thread, a circus show based on — and…
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Adelaide Fringe 2018: Ethiopian circus Abyssinia Granted Visas to Perform at Adelaide Fringe After Cancelled Shows
PERFORMERS in an Ethiopian circus act forced to cancel shows at the Fringe due to visa issues have been granted…
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Seven Charged Over Sexual and Physical Abuse at Katoomba Circus School: Police
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, an Annual Festival Brought to You by Lunar Circus
The Western Australian Circus Festival takes place every year in January in beautiful Karridale, in the famous Margaret River region…
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Sydney Festival 2018 Circus Roundup
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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Does the Bechdel Test Have a Place in Circus?
There is nothing more satisfying than walking out of theatre having been inspired by an amazing circus show. However, a…
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It’s Not for Everyone
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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Circus Oz Starts 2018 Dialing Back the Years (by 40 Years)
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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Circus Oz takes Model Citizens to Parramatta for Sydney Festival
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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How to Make a Circus City
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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Circus Skills Send a New Message
The art of circus is being used to break down communication barriers for adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
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New Era for Australia’s Circus and Physical Theatre Sector
The Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association (ACAPTA) has been wound up, with its services transferred to Theatre Network Australia….
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The National Institute of Circus Arts Presents PRECIPICE
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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Circus and Autism – Difference, Creativity, Community
Kristy Seymour tells the story of her mission to bring circus to children with autism, and the struggles she has…
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The Australian Circus Influence via Antonella Casella of Circus Oz
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 Oz Presents Model Citizens
Circus Talk has a new contributor! Hamish McCormick will write about Australian circus for us, which is really an extension…
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Conference: Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific Knowledge and Creative Imagination
Call for Papers The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University presents Imagineers in Circus and Science: Scientific…
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Yaron Lifschitz Says Dark Times Demand Artists’ ‘Fiercely Urgent Work’
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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Great Moscow Circus Goes Bust, Strands Circus Artists in Australia
Circus Talk is monitoring a series of reports emerging from Australia that describe the situation surrounding the abrupt shutting down…
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A Circus of Diversity
As several aerialists in vibrant costumes glide over the heads of audience members and a strongwoman holds up a team…
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Exchange between NICA and the Beijing International Arts School
This February NICA performance teacher and trainer Zebastian Hunter will travel to Beijing International Arts School to direct a student…
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Adelaide Fringe Review 2017: Le Petit Circus
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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Adelaide Fringe Review 2017: Cirque Nocturne
LIKE one of the lines from the film noir narration that crackles through the gaffer-taped speakers in Empyrean, a…
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Circus Act Comes Out Spinning As Adelaide Fringe Opens
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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While 146-Year-Old US Circus Closes, The Show Goes On In New Zealand
When the American Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it was to shut earlier this week, it seemed the…
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Cirque du Vietnam Shows A Country In Transition
Within millimetres of the pavement, myriad motorcycles roar past, beeping furiously. Street vendors jostle for space with doormen of swank…
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Brisbane Circus Agency Taking Performers To Europe And Asia
These two Brisbane women are really bringing the circus to town. Their firm, Cluster Arts, is one of only two…
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NICA graduates Find a Place to Call Home in the Circus
“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 to Follow New Ringleader Rob Tannion
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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Telling Stories with Body & Buildings; A Circus Tour of Melbourne with Emma Serjeant
Emma Serjeant is a prolific circus artist, producer, director and instructor from Australia whose work has touched all of their…
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