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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 latest work from Acrobat currently showing in the Sydney Festival, is a boundary-crossing, genre-defying work that marks out this Australian circus company as a unique and important voice in physical performance. This show serves as a reminder that Acrobat’s two performers and co-creators, Jo-Ann Lancaster and Simon Yates, have been pushing the boundaries and creating innovative circus work for over 20 years.

 It’s Not for Everyone brings the extreme physicality of these highly skilled circus artists together with an uncompromising approach to artistic risk-taking to create a work of ground-breaking originality.

‘Old acrobats become clowns’ is the starting point of the work. We see two performers enter in character as aging clowns dressed in brightly coloured costumes with Lancaster sporting a curly red clown wig and pushing a shopping trolley. Strings of brightly coloured lights pick out the shape of the traditional small family circus tent and the two artists perform a traditional trick-cycling act together.

 

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