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sat11jun(jun 11)2:30 pmsat18(jun 18)9:00 pmNational Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents ECLIPSE2:30 pm - 9:00 pm (18) View in my time

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ECLIPSE is NICA’s first public-facing production since 2019.

Twelve enduring and talented students have been pressurised by lockdowns into diamonds,

ready to showcase a thrilling live performance filled with acrobatics,

corde-lisse, trapeze, aerial hoop, tightwire, roue cyr, handstands, foot juggling and hula hoop.

 

Taking place Friday 10 – Saturday 18 June at NICA National Circus Centre (NNCC Building).

 

Inspired by The Pandemic is a Portal by Arundhati Roy, ECLIPSE offers a gateway to a vision of what our future could, should, would and might just be. Exploring unity, diversity, harmony, balance, trust, compromise, our humanity, and our fragility; what can we build and create together?

Date: Friday 11 June to 18 June

Time: 2:30pm matinee and 7:30pm evenings (show is 90 minutes)

Tickets: nica.com.au/performs

Adult: $35
Concession: $28
Family of 4: $112
Groups: $28 General Admission

Devised with the graduating company, conceived by Sally Richardson (Director of Steamworks Arts, Artistic Director of Maxima Circus), directed by Meredith Kitchen (Associate Director at South Australian Circus Centre) and in-house performance studies co-ordinator Ben Sheen (Director/Founder of Periscope Productions 2011 – Present), ECLIPSE is a cross-faculty collaboration with Film Students from Swinburne University of Technology Film and Television and make-up students from Melbourne Polytechnic.
ECLIPSE welcomes NICA’s first public-facing production since 2019. Twelve enduring and talented students have been pressurised by lockdowns into diamonds, ready to showcase a thrilling live performance filled with acrobatics, corde-lisse, trapeze, aerial hoop, tightwire, roue cyr, handstands, foot juggling and hula hoop.
Artfully paired with the dazzling live opera vocals of one of Australia’s finest interpreters of contemporary vocal repertoire, Judith Dodsworth (Greta in Brian Howard’s Metamorphosis with Victoria Opera, as well as the title role and Mercedes in Carmen for OzOpera), a live electronic and percussive score by Louis Frere-Harvey (Command Q, Structural Dependency) and dynamic visual set and costume design by Eloise Kent (The Darkening Sky, TheatreWorks in 2022, THIS at Rising Festival in 2021) and Angelica Rush (After Mrs. Rochester, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 2020) and uniquely illuminated by Govin Ruben‘s lighting design, ECLIPSE will leave audiences blinded by surprise.

NICA is Australia’s Centre of Excellence for training in contemporary circus arts. It is one of eight national arts training institutes and offers Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts.

Content Warning: PG (parental guidance recommended). 
The show may also contain loud sound effects, smoke/haze and strobe lighting.

SESSION TIMES

Thursday 9 June 7.30pm (Preview)
Friday 10 June 7.30pm (Opening Night)
Saturday 11 June 7.30pm
Tuesday 14 June 7.30pm
Wednesday 15 June 7.30pm
Thursday 16 June 7.30pm
Friday 17 June 7.30pm
Saturday 18 June 2.00pm
Saturday 18 June 7.30pm

Time

11 (Saturday) 2:30 pm - 18 (Saturday) 9:00 pm View in my time

Location

NICA National Circus Centre

39 – 59 Green Street, Prahran

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