Open auditions held for Cirque du Soleil

The Canadian company is looking for ‘weird and wonderful’ artists throughout February.

2 Feb 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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Entertainment juggernaut Cirque du Soleil will be auditioning local artists across Australia this month.

Performers with parkour, martial arts, tumbling, acrobatics and other skills are being sought by the Montreal-based company, with auditions to be held in Melbourne on 13-14 February.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts