Circus

Festivals meet first open borders since COVID
WA’s opening up phase will coincide with its peak festival period. How are they dealing with these new horizons?

Circus review: Humans 2.0, Circa
Contemporary circus with split second timing.

Phoenix festival rises from the Fringe
Melbourne Fringe’s program has been reinvented, with 55 in-person shows swiftly adapted for digital performance.

Embracing fear, channelling fury and daring to care
Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz issues a challenge to Netflix, and dares us to reimagine how and why we make art.

63 orgs share $20M in latest RISE round
A new Australian musical based on cult 90s TV series Round the Twist is among the projects to be funded.

Melbourne Fringe cancels 90% of events
Artists will be refunded for all registration and advertising costs says organisers, as the program goes digital.

Rebuilding the performing arts: an economist weighs in
One of Australia's best economics brains looks at the good and bad news for the arts as a keynote at…

How an Australian company toured Europe mid-pandemic (plus Tubular Bells!)
Yaron Lifschitz reflects on the challenges of mounting three new works in Europe while half of Australia was in lockdown.

Circus and the art of community: The ArtsHubbub episode 16
The circus company that plays together, stays together, according to two of the co-founders of Gravity and Other Myths.

20 year milestone shows independent theatre's struggle
An independent remount of a work first staged 20 years ago reveals struggles faced by artists since then.