Circa to premiere S at Frankstorn Arts Centre, 13-29 May

Circa's Helpmann Award-winning ensemble creation S is a full-throttle ride to the limits of the human body and will tour metropolitan Melbourne from 13 - 29 May, including Frankston Arts Centre, Gasworks Arts Park and Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre from Tuesday 27 - Thursday 29 May, 2014.

Based on the 19th letter of the English Alphabet, S fuses group acrobatics with intimate emotions. Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz was inspired to create an abstract work of power and joy - inspired by the curves, symmetries and plurality that are all attributes of this one letter.

On a floating white diamond stage, seven extraordinary acrobats bend, fly, contort and hang - sometimes alone, and others in a tangle of bodies. Dramatic acrobatics, athletic aerial acts and powerful solos are all infused with raw immediacy and beauty.

S features the world-renowned Circa ensemble with the intoxicating music of the Kronos Quartet to create a symphony of bodies.

"Darebin Arts is thrilled to present this brave and inventive work by Circa, which I have no doubt will leave our community and audiences wanting more," said Vanessa Pigrum, Manager, Creative Culture. "Having just won the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award it's an honour to have such an internationally acclaimed troupe performing on our doorstep."

From Brisbane, Australia, Circa presents a bold new vision of contemporary circus. 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.

With work that has toured to 26 countries across six continents since 2006, the company is relevant across cultures, audiences and venues. It's the appeal of something that is skillful but hasn't forgotten that to be human is, in the first instance, to feel. Where other companies tend to add elements (story, character) Circa's work is a stripped back circus of the heart. It finds new emotional landscapes inside what is generally considered to be a spectacle.

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