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Circa Humans 2.0 February 10, 2024 • 7:30 pm Royal Theatre Running time: 70 minutes (no intermission)

Circa. Photo: Damien Bredberg

The Royal Theatre is located on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen peoples, also known as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. We extend our appreciation for the opportunity to live, create, and perform on this territory.

About the Work Director: Yaron Lifschitz Original Music: Ori Lichtik Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson Costume Design: Libby McDonnell Technical Director: Jason Organ International representation: Allen Moon / David Lieberman Artists’ Representatives Canada Shaun Comerford / Circa Commercial Projects Wolfgang Hoffmann / Aurora Nova Worldwide booking & coordination Yaron Lifschitz / Circa New creations & big dreams

Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance.

Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and are caught, as physical limits are pushed to their extreme. Can we ever find a perfect balance or is adapting to constant change the only way forward?

This next chapter of Circa’s internationally acclaimed Humans is a tightly woven choreography of bodies, pulsing with music by composer Ori Lichtik and revealed in Paul Jackson’s dramatic lighting. Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, Humans 2.0 is intimate, primal and deeply engaged with the challenge of being human.

Cast

Darby Sullivan

Ewan Schell

Georgia Webb

Holly-Rose Boyer

Jon Bonaventura

Malte Gerhardt

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Rosa Mordaunt

Sophie Seccombe

Tristan St John Company Artist Portraits. Photo: Billie-Wilson Coffey

Oscar Morris

About Circa

Circa in Humans 2.0. Photos: Pedro Greig

“The mighty Circa” (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian) Circa Contemporary Circus is one of the world’s leading performance companies. Since 2004, from its base in Brisbane, Australia, Circa has toured the world — performing in more than 40 countries to over 1.5 million people. Circa’s works have been greeted with standing ovations, rave reviews and sold-out houses across six continents.

Circa is at the forefront of the new wave of contemporary Australian circus — pioneering how extreme physicality can create powerful and moving performances. It continues to push the boundaries of the art form, blurring the lines between movement, dance, theatre and circus. Compelled by the question ‘what is possible in circus?’ Circa is leading the way with a diverse range of thrilling creations that ‘redraw the limits to which circus can aspire.’ (The Age).

Under the direction of circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, Circa features an ensemble of exceptional, multi-skilled circus artists who have been a regular fixture at leading festivals and venues in New York, London, Berlin and Montreal with seasons at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Barbican Centre, Les Nuits de Fourvière, Chamäleon Theatre as well as major Australian Festivals.

Visit circa.org.au to find a Circa performance near you and discover why Circa has been hailed as nothing short of “… a revolution in the spectacle of circus.” (Les Echos).

Circa is committed to fostering the next generation of circus artists and runs public circus classes from its studio in

Brisbane. Circa also runs regular circus programs with communities throughout Queensland and around Australia.

As a champion of live performance, Circa was the Creative Lead for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games arts and cultural program.

Website circa.org.au Facebook facebook.com/circacontemporarycircus Instagram instagram.com/circapresents Twitter twitter.com/circapresents Vimeo vimeo.com/circapresents

Acknowledgements Humans 2.0 is commissioned by The Mondavi Center, UC Davis Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Circa is based in Meanjin (Brisbane) on the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people. We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the many lands on which we create and perform. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

Always was. Always will be.

Circa in Humans 2.0. Photos: (top) Lesley Martin; (bottom) Yaya Stempler

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Circa in Humans 2.0. Photo: Lesley Martin

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