Girls With Altitude
directed by Anni Davey
Currently in development and building on their recent successes at Sydney Festival and beyond, Girls with Altitude will deliver everything you expect from the formidable Fruities – humour, breathtaking skills, and boundless youthful energy – as well as a 17-strong all-female cast and projected animations from cartoonist Judy Horacek.
“Arguably, Australia’s most influential circus company…never have I felt so much love for a show and its performers radiating out from around me”
Girls with Altitude is an all-female aerials-based production using traditional and innovative apparatus developed by the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. It mixes the real life talents of Australia’s best young circus acrobats with interactive projections of Judy Horocek’s illustrations. Its bold, edgy and electrifying.
Increasingly young women are taking the lead in rejecting the apathy and inaction of the incumbent generation, questioning the prevailing politic and demanding real change. Cartoonist Judy Horacek, works with themes of environment, equality and the existential angst of the modern age, all explored gently with a sharp wit.
In combining these illustrations with circus, our young acrobats reframe, reinvent and propose new perspectives on the future of their generation while celebrating the Fruities famously exuberant mix of youthful energy and high level circus skills.
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus is developing this new work for festival, metropolitan and regional touring. It is the second major work to be created under the Artistic Directorship of Anni Davey, following the public and critical success of Back in the Big Top in Albury and Time Flies at Sydney Festival.
REVIEWS
"Australian circus is some of the best in the world and a fair share of that talent can be traced back to the Flying Fruit Fly Circus… quality family theatre that hits the mark and never compromises circus technique… Fruit Flies, you rock!” Herald Sun
"Flying Fruit Fly Circus was Australia’s first world-famous youth circus – and it’s still the best... the circus we know and love for its young performers (aged 8-18), rural base, clever ideas, expertise and sense of humour." Arts Hub
"The Flying Fruit Fly Circus may be composed of young people who are still in the process of learning the craft, but they deliver such a fine-tuned performance which promises foreseeable greatness, surely to be envied by vintage artists in the field now.” Australian Stage
“Dazzling and lyrical. Quick, book and treat the whole family.” Sydney Arts Guide
“Gasp inducing acrobatic feats… the performers captivate and inspire, and seem destined to join the ranks of the grown-ups.” Daily Telegraph
FROM THE COMPANY
Building on our recent success, Girls with Altitude will deliver everything presenters and audiences expect from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus - humour, breathtaking skills and boundless youthful energy. It also pushes our boundaries with a 17-strong all-female cast on stage (aged from 10-18) and the use of projected animations from cartoonist Judy Horacek (acclaimed illustrator of Mem Fox’s book The Green Sheep). This will be our first touring production since March 2019, a family spectacular suitable for kids from 6-106!
Richard Hull
TOURING IN 2022
Orange Civic Centre, NSW | Land of the Wiradjuri people
12 March | BOOK
Griffith Regional Theatre, NSW | Land of the Wiradjuri people
18 March | BOOK
Glasshouse Port Macquarie, NSW | Land of the Birpai people
22 + 23 March | BOOK
HOTA - Home of the Arts, QLD | Land of the Yugambeh people
26, 28 + 29 March | BOOK
Pilbeam Theatre Rockhampton, QLD | Land of the Darumbal people
2 April | BOOK
Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs, NT | Land of the Mparntwe people
8 April | BOOK
Riverside Theatre Parramatta, NSW | Land of the Darug people
13 + 14 April | BOOK
Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, VIC | Land of the Dja Dja Wurrung and the Taungurung peoples
20 + 21 April | BOOK
Bunjil Place Narre Warren, VIC | Land of the Bunurong Boon Wurrung & Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples
23 April | BOOK
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul, VIC | Land of the Gunaikurnai people
27 April | BOOK
Previous Tour
March-April 2022
CREDITS
Director Anni Davey
Cartoonist Judy Horacek
Video Designer Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman
Composer & Sound Designer Ania Reynolds
Set Designer Bosco Shaw
Costume Designer April Dawson
Rigging Design Simon Yates
Produced by Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Featuring a cast of young acrobats from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
If you are interested in touring get in contact!
Arts on Tour
02 8038 1880
touring@artsontour.com.au
Arts on Tour is based in Redfern NSW and we respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the unceded land on which we work.
As we tour artists and productions across these vast lands, we pay our respect to all First Nations Elders, past, present and future.
We celebrate their continuing connection and contribution to culture, country and community, and thank all First Nations peoples for their wisdom in caring for the land, the sky, the rivers and the sea.