CIRCA is movement at its most adventurous and dangerous. The exhilarating and physically astonishing, Brisbane-based company performs its self-titled remix - a compilation of their three most acclaimed and engaging main-stage works – where explosive encounters, dynamic group scenes and achingly beautiful solos abound. Combining physical beauty, extreme circus skills and dance, seven performers move from highly complex tumbling sequences, to fast-paced flashes of great intricacy where precision and timing are everything.
“Knee-tremblingly sexy, beautiful and moving.”
- ***** The Guardian (UK)
The company’s sophisticated signature style fuses contemporary dance with acrobatics and an immersive use of powerful soundtracks, light, projection and theatrical flair. The result is a new kind of circus, at once poetic, sensual and immense.
CIRCA comes to the Skirball Center from Australia for their U.S. premiere with a blaze of reviews and public acclaim following performances at the Sydney Opera House, Galway Arts Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and London’s Barbican. What CIRCA does has amazed, astonished and thrilled audiences in over 18 countries around the world.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Performance Length: 80 minutes
Click here to download a complete PDF e-Program for CIRCA. This PDF e-Program has been created in support of New York University's sustainability mission and Green Action Plan.
Stay after the performance Thursday evening, March 3 for a Post-Show Talk-Back with CIRCA.
Click here to read more about the Skirball Center Membership Package available for those who wish to attend both CIRCA and Compañía Nacional de Danza.
NYU Skirball Center season programming is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Circa in CIRCA
directed by Yaron Lifschitz
The U.S. tour of CIRCA is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
Photos by Justin Nicolas, Atmosphere Photography. Pictured at left (l-r) Jesse Scott and Lewis West. Pictured at right (l-r) Lewis West, Darcy Grant, Scott Grove, Emma McGovern, Jesse Scott and Freyja Edney.
