Open auditions held for Cirque du Soleil

The Canadian company is looking for ‘weird and wonderful’ artists throughout February.
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Cirque du Soleil‘s Quidam. Photo: Matt Beard. Costumes: Dominique Lemieux © 2011 Cirque du Soleil. 

Entertainment juggernaut Cirque du Soleil will be auditioning local artists across Australia this month.

Performers with parkour, martial arts, tumbling, acrobatics and other skills are being sought by the Montreal-based company, with auditions to be held in Melbourne on 13-14 February.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts