Two decades on from a fateful rebrand, the world-famous circus is staging an acclaimed show at QPAC starring three acrobats and one violinist.
“We were probably less bound by how things should be and how you’re supposed to tell stories in the grown-up world,” he says.Credit:“Second and third cities have a real place in the arts that is hard to quantify. We’re freer to kind of invent and make it up ourselves.”
The company was admired, and even performed internationally, but was run as a collective, and by the late 1990s, was in danger of losing focus and funding. “We were looking to make work that was more challenging, more difficult, more interesting, more weird.”He set the renamed Circa on a course to being one of Australia’s most acclaimed cultural exports, one that has performed in more than 45 countries to almost 2 million people.
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