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Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz (right) in rehearsal with the Circa ensemble. A shaven-headed man in black-framed glasses and black clothes gesticulates as he explains something to a group of shirtless men and women in dark green dresses in a rehearsal studio.
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Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz receives ISPA Distinguished Artist Award

Lifschitz joins the likes of Taylor Mac, Robert Lepage, Laurie Anderson and Pina Bausch in receiving the accolade from the…

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

Several performers are dressed as Spider-men and are hanging off scaffolding.
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Circus review: MARVELous: A Risque Parody, National Theatre Melbourne

A parody of Marvel comic heroes in circus form.

Heather Holliday, has her head back and is fire-eating in 'La Clique.' She is dressed in a red and white bikini top outfit.
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Circus review: La Clique, Sydney Opera House

Circus acts from all over the world return to celebrate La Clique's 20th birthday.

Two men, one with a beard and shaved head, one with a moustache, both on one knee throwing a juggling skittle forward. Escalate.
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Circus review: Escalate, Circus Oz HQ

A circus juggling show that keeps all of its balls in the air...

The hero image for Corrugated Iron Youth Arts' 40th anniversary program, Futures Collide: a photograph of a teenaged boy in sunglasses and 1980s fashion, overlayed with fluorescent pink and green.
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Past and present collide as Corrugated Iron Youth Arts celebrates 40 years

Corrugated Iron Youth Arts, or ‘Corro’ as it is often known, celebrates its 40th anniversary throughout October.

One Fell Swoop Circus has welcomed the news that the Perry Street, Collingwood training facility will remain a home for circus and physical theatre artists. Two circus artists stand on a blue stage, holding overlapping white ropes. A third circus artist balances on the ropes where they are intertwined.
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Circus training centre to open up for sector

One Fell Swoop and Na Djinang among those circus companies looking forward to the appointment of a new site operator.

A woman, Sahara Beck, wearing a white and black outfit is standing with a microphone. A drag queen in a black leotard, is standing beside her, back to back.
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Performance review: Bite Club: 2nd Serve, Arts Centre Melbourne

The Brief's Factory troupe returns to entertain and scandalise with their circus tricks.

A scene from 'Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show' at Brisbane Festival, featuring an array of performers dressed in colourful designs posing on a catwalk, surrounded by seated audience members.
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Festival review: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show, South Bank Piazza

This semi-autobiographical stage show exploring the French fashion designer’s life and career is visually splendid but, ironically, lacking in theatrical…

A woman in a red top and blue pleated skirt, facing away from the camera, balances atop a cyr wheel (a piece of circus apparatus) while spinning two hula hoops on each outstretched arm. In the background, a large audience watches on.
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The National Circus Festival: growing grassroots circus in the regions

With an emphasis on circus training and community-building as much as entertainment, the National Circus Festival is a major event…

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