“circus that sets your pulse racing and your soul stirring” (The Scotsman)
For more than two decades, Brisbane-based company Circa (April 12) has toured the world, performing for more than two million people across 45 countries. Their core values of quality, audacity, and humanity define their approach to contemporary circus performance. It’s physically and emotionally powerful.
“Circus is a couple of things,” Circa’s artistic director Yaron Lifschitz said in an interview with The Saturday Paper. “First, it can’t be performed by muggles. There always has to be something that mortals in the audience think: ‘I can’t do that. I can’t do a handstand on one hand or have three people stand on top of me.’ It always has something exceptional about it. Circus also has this imperative: thou shalt not bore. It has this ferocious desire to impress, excite, thrill, delight its audience which, as an end in itself, is not necessarily crazy helpful: it can be a real double-edged sword. Circus can feel that as a burden. But it’s a pretty good starting point for theatre to say: ‘We will not be boring.’ At the core, you always go back to those elements: it has to be virtuosic and it has to have some element of charge and thrill.”
“Arguably the world’s most daring circus company” (The Guardian)
Circa will perform their new program Humans 2.0 at the Center for the Arts. It’s a symphony of acrobatics, sound and light, created with a tightly woven choreography of bodies, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik.
This is next-level circus performance, compelling in ways you’ve only dreamed of. You won’t want to miss this one.