Circus Community

Since Women’s Circus was founded in 1991, both our own community of women and the community of contemporary circus artists and organisations in Australia have been vital in our growth and development.

Women’s Circus Community
Women’s Circus is a large, diverse community that relies on its staff and members each fulfilling their roles and responsibilities to keep it the vibrant and exciting company it is.

Over the past sixteen years, over a thousand women have trained, performed, done technical production and volunteered in other ways at Women’s Circus. Read more about Women’s Circus Community

Contemporary Circus Community
Australia is considered by most to be the birthplace of ‘contemporary circus’, with groups like Circus Oz (formed from Soapbox Circus and the New Ensemble Circus), the Flying Fruit Flies and the Wimmin’s Circus founded in the late 1970s.

All of these groups developed from the grassroots, doing everything themselves, and were ground-breaking in that they worked communally, the shows were political, the style was highly physical and used no animals, and men and women had equal rights and roles. Read more about Contemporary Circus in Australia