Circa Contemporary Circus: Opus

“Opus” is a production filled with force, virtuosity and poetry. Ten acrobats and a string quartet celebrate the exciting music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century. “Opus” ardently fuses the drama of music with extreme acrobatics, lyric movement and group choreography.

Circa are coming from Australia, bringing their new and brave vision of contemporary circus art, reflected in a piece that explores the complex relationships between the individual and the group, between the march of history and the dictates of the heart, between the tragic and the comic. Body movement, to the rhythm of the music, becomes the highest level of human expression.