Flipside 2026: A Simple Space at Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

“This award-winning piece is never short of thrills. A total triumph.”
– The Guardian

“Cirque du Soleil with a fistful of grit.”
– UK Express

A single human body becomes a skipping rope. Handstands, climbs, flips, and twists, all atop towers of hands, shoulders and heads. Playful, good-natured one-upmanship.

Watch seven acrobats challenge the limits of the human body in a gravity-defying spectacle performed to the rhythm of a dynamic live drumbeat.

Since its premiere as part of the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival, A Simple Space has become an award-winning favourite, touring 34 countries and captivating more than 300,000 audience members worldwide.

Thrilling, frantic, visceral, and a little bit cheeky, this mesmerising stripped-down circus leaves behind the makeup, glittering costumes and elaborate circus rigs in favour of an intimate and interactive encounter with the audience. Up close, the troupe’s display of breathtaking power, high-energy athleticism and suspense is nothing short of delightful.

A Simple Space is an invitation to admire the extraordinary in its simplest form.

Gravity & Other Myths is supported as an organisation by Create SA. A Simple Space has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. Gravity & Other Myths is supported as an organisation by the Sydney Myer Fund.

Created by: Martin Schreiber, Lachlan Binns, Jascha Boyce, Jacob Randell, Triton Tunis-Mitchell
Composer: Elliot Zoerner
Musician: Yuk Afella
Performers: Emily Gare, Ashley Youren, Hamis McCourty, Georgia Webb, Léann Gingrass, Skip Walker-Milne, David Trappes