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Tumbling, balancing and soaring together: creating circus in the time of Covid

Circa’s Leviathan brings together 36 performers for the biggest in-theatre show of a scaled-back Brisbane festival

This Sunday 36 acrobatic performers and dancers will come together for the first time at the Circa Contemporary Circus’s rehearsal studio in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. They will tumble, balance and soar together in testament to the communal human spirit’s power to overcome adversity as part of Brisbane festival’s biggest in-theatre show this September.

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