Everyone wants to run away to the circus, right? Well now running away to the circus has become something more significant than a Disney film about an elephant with big ears. For performers in the creative arts industries, there is real opportunity for national and international success and career advancement in the circus arts.
Yep, Circus Arts is the latest in performing arts, and here in Australia companies and institutions like Circus Oz, Flying Fruit Flies, the Women’s Circus and the National Institute of Circus Arts have moved this art form from performing animals to something that, as Nicole Brackertz, teacher of circus history at the National Institute of Circus Arts, said when interviewed in 2004:
