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Conductor Umberto Clerici is conducting musicians in foreground. Behind him are several performers on the ground in different poses.
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Music review: The Rite of Spring, Concert Hall, QPAC

Works that changed the course of modern music, alongside some bold reimagining, created a successful opening for Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s…

Gravity and Other Myths' 'The Mirror' at Gluttony, Adelaide Fringe 2025.
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Performance reviews: Gravity and Other Myths’ The Mirror, Sawdust, The LadyBoys of Bangkok, Adelaide Fringe 2025

A playful children’s circus show, a slickly performed Thai drag show and the latest production from local powerhouse Gravity and…

GRIT Productions' 'BITE' at The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe. A sex positive circus-burlesque-cabaret. The phto depicts a female-identitying performer pol-dancing, but the pole is untethered and the performer is using circus skills as as pole-dancing skills to create the scene.
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Cabaret review: Bite, The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide Fringe

A queer 'spiegeltent style' cabaret celebrating sex positivity in the face of growing homophobic hate globally.

Women's Circus. Four older woman huddle together bending over a metal frame against a green background. Small Acts of Resistance.
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Circus review: Small Acts of Resistance, Women’s Circus Gasworks Arts Park

Strong, simple, effective social circus, celebrating strength on every level.

Two female performers are entwined on a trapeze.
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Performance review: Tender, Gasworks, midsumma festival

A sexy production for fans of aerial performance.

A man, Taylor Morgan, in a red velvet tuxedo on stage. He is carrying a hoop. Next to him on a pedestal is a bottle. The curtains behind him is also red velvet.
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Performance review: Chasing Miracles, Perth Town Hall, FRINGE WORLD

An all-ages variety show of magic and circus tricks.

A sequence from Tra Mi Dinh’s 'Somewhere between ten and fourteen', which features in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. The photo depicts four barefoot dancers in blue coveralls dancing on a blue-lit stage. The dancer on the far left has their legs spread, their right arm raised and their left arm extended horizontally; the dancer on the right, who is the focus of the focus, stands in a half-crouch, her arms extended to the right and her right foot bent so that the side of the foot rather than her sole is touching the stage.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the 2025 season announcements you may have missed.

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…

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.

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