After sell-out seasons across the world, Australia’s ground-breaking Circa returns to Melbourne with a breathless cocktail of new circus, cabaret and vaudeville – Wunderkammer. Sexy, funny and explosive, its control and abandon, skill and humour, lyricism and anarchy meld into a sinuous fugue of profound beauty.

Circa is world-renowned for creating startling new ways to experience circus. Combining seemingly impossible physical feats with a poetic sensibility, its creations move, amaze and astonish. In Wunderkammer, an exquisite cabaret of the senses, a diva melts into a rope, balloons and bubble wrap discover their artistic souls while bodies twist and fly. Seven performers of unbelievable ability bend the very fabric of reality.

Hailing from Brisbane Circa is responsible for a bold new vision of contemporary circus. Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz and his talented company are a dynamic force in circus. Wunderkammer is a blending of bodies, light, sound and skills, a place where acrobatics and movement meld into a seamless whole, a celebration of the expressive possibilities of the human body at its extremes. Since 2006 Circa has toured to 24 countries across five continents and its work has been rapturously received by audiences, presenters and critics around the world.

In 2012 Circa was honoured with a Helpmann Award for Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production, and has again been nominated for this year’s awards in the Best Regional Touring Production category. It recently won a Brighton Festival award in the UK for How Like An Angel and Circa’s newest production Opus had its World Premiere in Lyon, France in June.

Circa also runs a Training Centre with an impressive workshop program in Brisbane at its professional studio, in schools and with partners throughout Queensland and beyond. Circa has an impressive track record of producing quality workshops for children, young people and adults in a range of community contexts. In 2011 Circa’s Training Centre programs reached an audience of over 20,000 people.

Featuring fresh, contemporary soundscapes, a young and gifted ensemble, and produced under the outstanding artistic direction of Yaron Lifschitz, Circa provides a rare opportunity to see one of Australia’s most successful contemporary performance exports up close and personal.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see circus stripped back straight to the heart.

Witness Wunderkammer’s brilliance here: http://vimeo.com/66876991