KAGE's FORKLIFT to Make World Premiere at Sydney Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, Jan-Feb 2014

The World Premiere of FORKLIFT from contemporary choreography of body and machine KAGE will play the Sydney Festival, Carriageworks, Thurs 16 at 7pm, Sat 18 & Sun 19 January at 2pm & 730pm. (Booking: http://www.kage.com.au/book-tickets.) Followed by Arts Centre Melbourne, Theatres Forecourt, Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 16 February, 6.30 & 9pm. (Booking: http://www.kage.com.au/book-tickets.)

It's the graveyard shift and three women find themselves in an industrial wasteland, willing to risk everything in their interplay with each other and a moving machine. Lyrical, intimate and dangerous, this breathtaking dance-circus performance work from the multi award-winning Australian company KAGE features contortion, aerial acrobatics, striking lighting effects and original music.

Re-imagining the possibilities of heavy machinery into a playful and dangerous sphere, FORKLIFT thrusts KAGE's vigorous physicality on, and around, a working 2.5 tonne forklift, examining both the connection and conflicting relationship between humankind and machinery.

Witness beauty - natural and constructed - as the women proceed to transform both the machine and themselves in a display of the equipment of the human body at its most impressive.

FORKLIFT has been devised in Australia following a development at Helsinki's CIRKO (Center for New Circus) - a space dedicated to training and the creation of new circus and performance works.

Featuring an extraordinary design by Bluebottle 3, this international collaboration merges indoor and outdoor worlds into a new realm ensuring you will never look at something familiar in quite the same way again.

Directed by Kate Denborough (one of Australia's 2013 Women of Influence), FORKLIFT is performed by Henna Kaikula (hand balancer and contortionist in Cantina, performed at Sydney Festival 2013 and Theatres Forecourt 2010), Amy Macpherson and Nicci Wilks (ex Circus Oz).

Founded by Kate Denborough and Gerard Van Dyck in 1997, KAGE is a multi-award-winning company that creates critically acclaimed work across dance, physical theatre and drama, which is technically rigorous, visually striking and emotionally resonant.