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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…

Five performers in shades of brown are walking on top of candle jars.
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Festival reviews: YOAH, Apricity, Afrique en Cirque, Ten Thousand Hours, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Edinburgh Festival Fringe offers an array of exciting circus acts from around the world that often act as a proud…

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School holiday fun at Bunjil Place!

Bunjil Place in Melbourne's South-East has a variety of entertaining activities and shows to engage kids of all ages these…

A young circus artist spreads their arms and smiles as they dive through a vertical ring. Other young people watch on in the circus training session.
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Bachelor of Circus Arts course to restart thanks to new NICA and Collarts partnership

The three-year Bachelor of Circus Arts program at the National Institute of Circus Arts is reopening its student intake for…

A woman is balancing on her arms, with her legs bent back to accommodate a bow and arrow between her foot.
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Circus review: Cirque Bon Bon, The Athenaeum

All the circus acts you know and expect, but with a Guinness World Record holding performer thrown in as well.

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