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…
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Australia and New Zealand
Circus Bodies: Aging Circus Bodies
Aging Circus Bodies is part of a new series called Circus Bodies. The introductory article speaks to the importance of…
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Promoting Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Circus Arts
Working in circus can be thrilling, energising and full of moments of joy and excitement. It can also be challenging,…
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Australian Circus Festival: Lifetime Achievement Awards Announced
The 5th edition of the Australian Circus Festival is occurring this February. Due to COVID-19, the competition is virtual. The…
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How Circa Went From Edgy Brisbane Circus to a Major Australian Performing Arts Company with a Global Reputation
Warning: seeing a performance by Brisbane circus company Circa may cause feelings of inadequacy, fear and awe. Take their 2019…
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WA Lockdown: Perth Festival Cancels Opening Night as Fringe World Put on Hold
In what was meant to be a time of celebration for the city, the five-day lockdown has left the local…
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CircusTalk PRO Member Showcase: Murray Raine
We at CircusTalk are grateful for each and every one of our members. From discipline to background, the CircusTalk community…
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Busker Festival Brings Jaw-Dropping Acts to Our Newest City Spaces
Te Komititanga and Silo Park extension among venues for busker festival. An unmissable line-up of eight local street performers who…
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Circus in Process with Casus Circus–Episode 4, No Funding
Circus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus. In this…
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‘Our Mission is to Ask What’s Possible’: Acrobats Reach New Heights at Sydney Festival
They’ve had to jump through hoops to get here but, after flight cancellations and border closures, Circa Contemporary Circus has…
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Kerri-Anne Kennerley Hospitalised After Trapeze Fall During PIPPIN Performance
On Wednesday evening, Kerrie-Anne Kennerley was rushed to hospital after falling 4.5 metres during her trapeze number. The actress, who…
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Circus in Process with Casus Circus–Episode 3, Cluster Arts
Circus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus. In this…
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Highwire Act Grounded by COVID Returns Home to Teach Next Generation at Tasmania’s Slipstream School
As the doors of the Slipstream Circus burst open, a girl scoots past on a unicycle as another crosses the…
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Adelaide Social Circus Group Helping Improve Vulnerable Children’s Development
When the coronavirus pandemic first struck, it sent the members of a small Adelaide community circus into a spiral. Lolly…
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Circus and Changing Realities 2020–What’s Up with Circus in Australia?
Australia has a unique role in the circus world where both traditional and contemporary circus flourish, and the international touring…
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Celebrating Outstanding Achievement at the 2020 National Arts and Disability Awards
Emily Crockford, Gaelle Mellis and Abbie Madden have been named recipients of the 2020 National Arts and Disability Awards, presented…
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Cirque Nocturne Calls On Arts Patrons To Invest In The Arts
After a year that has been devastating for the arts industry, Adelaide circus company Cirque Nocturne are set to bounce…
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Circus Voices Podcast– Circus in Process with Casus Circus, Episode 2
Circus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a new series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus….
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WA Circus Festival Postponed in Wake of COVID-19
Organisers of Karridale’s long running WA Circus Festival have said that a heartbreaking decision to cancel the 2021 event is…
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Australian Financial Woes Will Not Affect NZ Buskers Festival, Organisers Say
The Australian parent company behind the Bread & Circus – World Buskers Festival has gone into liquidation, but organisers say…
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Auckland Magician’s Stolen Circus Props Mysteriously Returned
An Auckland magician who had thousands of dollars worth of circus props stolen from his van while he slept has…
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Circus Voices Podcast– Circus in Process with Casus Circus, Episode 1
Circus Voices, a podcast brought to you by CircusTalk, is pleased to present a new series called Circus in Process with Casus Circus….
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Flipside CEO Robert Kronk Talks All Things Circus!
Flipside Circus and arTour have collaborated on one of the first large-scale tours since the COVID crisis hit Australia –…
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Antonella Casella Announces New Position & Deepens Her Commitment to the Circus Sector in Australia
Antonella Casella, an Australian circus advocate, producer, director, dramaturg and performer, has recently announced that she is stepping down from her…
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When the Circus Went Quiet, Mike Finch Picked Up a Pen and Drew a Pub
“I live in a very, very small one-room studio apartment with my partner, Amy Cater, in Fitzroy,” says Mike Finch,…
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Show Goes on for Christchurch Buskers Festival Despite Global Events Meltdown
A collapse of the global events industry will not hurt Christchurch’s annual buskers festival. The Australian company behind the Bread…
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From Wirth’s to Circus Oz, Melbourne’s Art Centre is Still Home for Australia’s Greatest Circus Troupes
What began as equestrian events in the 1860’s led to travelling troupes of performers and exotic animals which became known…
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Laura Bonner Talks Touring Children’s Circus
Flipside Circus and arTour are collaborating on one of the first large-scale tours since the COVID crisis hit Australia –…
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It’s a Balancing Act, but Local Whip Round Keeps Stranded Circus Going
A circus troupe is surviving on savings and the kindness of strangers while they’re stranded in a paddock in Melbourne’s…
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Hideaway Podcast, Episode 87 – Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director of CIRCA
On today’s episode, Josh and Lyndsay talk about the shows that are taking place even with a global pandemic, including a…
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A Risky Circus Enterprise makes Beautiful Theatre at Belco
There’s no longer any need to run away to the circus. Instead, you can make your escape from this pandemic-riddled…
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Detachable Passion – An Open Letter to Performing Artists Everywhere
Separating art from commerce is a means to future proof our artistic practice. As the Adelaide Fringe festival drew to…
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The Artist Athlete Podcast, Episode 84: East Versus West- A Comparison Of Circus with Guang Rong Lu
Born in China under the rule of Chairman Mao Zehdong, Guang Rong Lu began his circus training at the age…
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Custom-Built Circus Centre to Open in Brisbane in 2021
A custom-built circus training centre, operated by Queensland’s largest youth arts organisation Flipside Circus, is set to open in Brisbane…
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Tumbling, Balancing and Soaring Together: Creating Circus in the Time of Covid
This Sunday 36 acrobatic performers and dancers will come together for the first time at the Circa Contemporary Circus’s rehearsal…
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Whangārei Fringe Festival Made Possible Thanks to $46K Grant
An array of art events will liven up the streets of Whangārei in October thanks to a $46,000 grant to…
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A Tale of Two Circuses: An Existential Balancing Act
Two of the biggest – Circa in Brisbane and Circus Oz in Melbourne – have endured months of zero box…
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Cluster Arts: Brisbane’s Circus Management Team Backstage and Taking Care of Business
Transcribing my conversation with Deb Wilks (Executive Director) and Kate Malone (Executive Producer) of Cluster Arts was like time travel. We spoke…
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Applause: Latest Funding and Awards Announced
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus has announced the five projects which will be supported through its COVID-19 seed funding initiative…
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Circa Contemporary Circus Launches Podcast PRODUCING HEROES
In a first for the pioneering Australian performing arts company, Circa Contemporary Circus is launching a podcast. In Producing Heroes…
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Don’t Let Our Cultural Heart Die of Covid Neglect
No one doubts that health, the economy and education are valuable. Culture, however, is having a harder time mattering to…
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Hudson’s Circus – Shane Lennon Makes Traditional Circus Modern
Shane is from the Lennon Family that has owned and operated circuses in Australia and New Zealand for over 120…
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A Tasmanian Performer Teaches Students About Consent, Drawing on Circus Tricks
After running away to join the circus at the age of 21, the aerialist and trapeze artist has returned home…
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Circus Arts Hub Launches With Resources for the Circus World
Circus Arts Hub is the brainchild of Australia’s Antonella Casella, an original member of Rock n’ roll and Vulcana Women’s…
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‘Enormous Pressure’: Arts Organisations Call for Help Amid Crisis
Leading arts figures say live audiences have “disappeared” and small organisations face bankruptcy during the coronavirus crisis, ahead of an…
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Crisis Management and the Virtual Office
At Circa, we are familiar with crisis situations. Risk is part of our world, and one of the key elements…
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Vietnamese Bamboo Circus Bursts with Boundless Invention
This inspired circus from Vietnam draws upon twin impulses in the contemporary art form to create something stunning, immersive and…
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Chasing Smoke Brings First Nations Experiences into the Circus Ring
“It’s an all-Indigenous circus show that has all the flavours typical of contemporary circus; you’ve got trapeze, corde lisse, tumbling…
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Audience Members Shaken After Incident at Great Moscow Circus in Nelson
Audience members got more than they bargained for when a large swing came apart at the Great Moscow Circus in…
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Leviathan Review: Circa’s New Production Explores the Ordinary, Extraordinary Mass of Humanity
As the audience takes their seats, two feet poke out from beneath the curtain. In hindsight, it’s the first trick…
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Lost in Circus Perth Fringe World 2020
What is Fringe? In this video by Ken Fanning, hear from various circus fringe voices as they discuss the culture,…
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So You Want My Arts Job: Circus Trainer
Loic Marques is the Training Director at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. He is a French National sports acrobatic champion…
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CIRCA Embarks on Two Collaborative Projects
Circa, Australia’s contemporary circus company, keeps staying in the forefront on pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving…
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Interview with Circa’s Acrobat Paul O’Keeffe
In this video interview, Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus performer Paul O’Keeffe talks about his cheeky side and how the show…
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Love as a Balancing Act: Literally
Circus today is well-suited to portraying love from the inside out, straying as it does into borderlands of dance and…
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Juggling and Circus Festivities For All
One winning master-juggler will wing their way to Mexico after a competition next week in Katikati. “These guys are beasts…
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Sex Positivity with Your Aerial Spins? The WonderWombs Wields a Fearless Mix of Circus, Women’s Issues, and Laughter
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 (Strut & Fret Production House, Sydney Festival)
LIFE – The Show is brought to us by Strut & Fret’s Creative Director Scott Maidment who returns with a…
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The 2020 Dance and Circus Calendar
Physical feats and disciplined artistry unite the worlds of dance and circus, despite the many differences between the artforms. In…
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Art, Empathy and Crossing Borders: a Provocation by Yaron Lifschitz
The following speech is an edited version of a provocation delivered by Yaron Lifschitz at the 2020 ISPA Congress in…
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Circus Stays Open Despite Families Being Evacuated from New South Wales Coastal Towns as Out-of-Control Bushfires Rage On
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, NICA (VIC)
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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Circus Oz Explores New Artistic Direction
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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Fresh Start and Old Ending? Australian Circus Company Circa Brings Its Second U.S. Premiere to NYC with En Masse
A man (Robert Murray) draped in robes sings a Schubert aria, his knit hat, fingerless gloves and staff in hand…
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Orpheus & Eurydice: Opera Queensland And Circa Combine Two Art Forms
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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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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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 moreGravity & 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 moreGravity & 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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