(Australia)
Created by Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa Ensemble
To celebrate our 20th birthday we are thrilled to present this spectacular contemporary circus performance!
There is a line between human and animal, between madness and sanity, between logic and dream... We invite you to step over this line...and go Beyond.
Beyond is a warm, surreal and unexpectedly moving show from one of the world's finest contemporary circus companies. Blending dynamic circus acts like trapeze and Chinese pole with multiple rabbit heads, Rubik's Cubes, and blindfolds, set to a bewitching mix of show tunes, ballads and electronica, this creation delights and enchants.
Beyond is set on multiple stages within stages - small red-curtained worlds that offer a glimpse of this rich and empathetic world. Maybe we are in a cabaret, a zoo, an asylum or a stage? Over the course of Beyond, we meet the artists, marvel at their skills, enter their personalities and emerge into a strangely beautiful and curiously tender world.
With work that has toured to 30 countries across six continents since 2006, Circa has huge appeal across cultures, audiences and venues. This is fun sophisticated circus for grown-ups who are still wild at heart.
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.
"...an incredibly engaging, funny, family-friendly show that had the audience on their feet and cheering." - THE DOMINION POST
"Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally. The extraordinary transformation that he has taken that company through... I mean remarkable."
- CATE BLANCHETT
Nelson Arts Festival
