LEVIATHAN

LEVIATHAN is a large scale circus theatrical work developed by CIRCA.

CIRCA’s internationally-renowned ensemble joined with a local cast of professional circus performers from MAXIMA, dancers from Co:3 Australia and young people from Circus WA for a world circus event that premiered at the 2020 Perth Festival.

The art of circus was taken in an exciting new direction as 36 performers hung from a grid suspended in the air and propelled themselves across the stage, tumbling, balancing and soaring together.

Leviathan connects the local with the global and the emerging with the visionary in an exhilarating circus experience directed by Yaron Lifschitz. The dramatic power and extreme skill of CIRCA’s trademark acrobatics thrillingly expose the tension between the mass and the individual in an epic theatrical event that is both deeply moving and physically stunning.

…Leviathan is a highly accomplished work and a one-of-a-kind collaboration…Somewhere between contemporary circus and dance, Leviathan moves between exquisitely precise choreography and kinaesthetic improvisation, between union and seeming chaos…

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