Nullarbor
An Idea
Our aim is to create a bold and brand new circus show Nullarbor based on, you guessed it, an Aussie road trip!
The People
A selected group of emerging Australian circus artists, and physical theatre practitioners will collaborate with an outstanding design and production team on an original work to be created, directed and produced by Maakan Productions, Steamworks Arts Productions along with other partners.
We know our circus and physical theatre performers are world class and we want to galvanize this diverse, fiercely independent, and often disparate community; building a strong ensemble of youthful performers supported by an outstanding and equally diverse team of innovative and experienced creators.
Our performers are real people, with real life experience, all different, individually skilled and talented, and yet essential to each other, group of friends.
This new work/company will be unlike anything you have seen in this genre in Oz before. This is new circus; multi-skilled with a strong performance edge; embracing experimentation, improvisation, and risk taking. It is entertaining, fun, and energised and suitable for the broadest of possible audiences.
We are experimenting with the integration of street based and circus physical performance languages, and contemporary choreography, with the ability to communicate a cohesive and engaging narrative. The aim is to explore a fresh new vision for Australian circus and physical theatre, utilising the best of contemporary performance in creation, design, and production.
The resulting work will feature bold physical character roles created by vibrant, individual, highly skilled performers.
It will experiment with the creation of a dynamic rigging and inventive construction in/off and around the performance environment.
It will seek to engage with new forms of multi-media; vision interacting with live sound in new and surprising ways.
Great circus, Great music, Great fun. Imaginative, inventive, and always playful!
This work will be devised and created by an eclectic team of emerging performers selected through auditions across the Australian circus/physical theatre communities.
This will be a genuinely diverse troupe, presenting their unique skills in a production context under one banner, and offering the Australian audience a home grown, accessible and contemporary circus experience previously unavailable.
We see this work being presented in an intra theatre context available to tour locally, nationally, and internationally
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