ESCALATE (AUSTRALIA)
THROW CATCH COLLECTIVE
Australia’s best jugglers rip through an explosive hour of entertainment, pushing the boundaries of their art with a unique eye for musicality and timing. Effortlessly blending rhythm and movement with juggling, it’s stylish, playful and curious.
Virtuosic juggling, innovative lighting and relentless energy collide in this pioneering new show from Throw Catch Collective. Australia's best jugglers rip through an explosive hour of entertainment, pushing the boundaries of their art with a unique eye for musicality and timing. Effortlessly blending rhythm and movement with juggling, it's stylish, playful and curious.
“Circus that aspires to the condition of music.”
- The Age
Escalate is a multi-sensory theatrical experience blending aural and visual pattern-making through creation of new juggling and music languages. It invites the audience to invest in juggling as a character, using accessible beginnings and raising the stakes to build an intricate choreographic world over the course of the production.
''Supremely clever" ★★★★ The Scotsman
“what makes it thrilling is a broadening of the form – the way it incorporates a stylish, synchronised physicality, owing as much to the rhythmic language of percussion as it does to dance…The virtuosity is spellbinding to behold ★★★★½ The Age
Touring considerations: show is scalable to a variety of venue types/sizes
Length: 80 minutes, no intermission