International views on Australian circus

As Berlin-based producer and performing arts agency director Wolfgang Hoffmann reflects on his 20-plus years of touring challenging, contemporary theatrical formats to festival audiences worldwide, his thoughtful composure reveals a person with a steady hand on the wheel, who is steering his performing arts talents to their next destinations.

‘Circus has an easy appeal where people have a certain expectation of what they will get, and when they are in the theatre watching the show, they can have that expectation met, but [with new circus work] they also get something deeper, which will surprise them.

‘That’s really the kind of work I’m most passionate about and I’m always hungry to find new expressions for that,’ he concludes.