Duck Pond - Circa

The world’s most romantic ballet, Swan Lake, reimagined as a family friendly acrobatic spectacular

Duck Pond is Circa’s exuberant take on Swan Lake, mixing the enchantment of the ballet with the thrill of the circus, emboldened with humor, panache, and feathers. The piece is full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humor, enchanting duets, and colorful surrealism. See a clumsy film crew, a sequined flipper-wearing duck army, and a burlesque black swan with sumptuous aerials, and dynamic cyr wheel. Touching, funny, and completely entertaining, Duck Pond is a tale of identity and finding your true self.

Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz (“the Caravaggio of contemporary circus”) with ten members of the globally renowned Circa ensemble, this will be one of Circa’s most ambitious works yet with haute couture costumes courtesy of Libby McDonnell, music by Jethro Woodward (with hints of Tchaikovsky) and lighting from Alexander Berlage. The thrilling physicality of Humans 2.0 and the playful comedy of Carnival of the Animals combine to make Duck Pond a must-see circus epic.

Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble.

• Director, Stage Design Yaron Lifschitz
• Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
• Costume Designer Libby McDonnell
• Lighting Designer Alexander Berlage
• Associate Director Marty Evans
• Dramaturg/Associate Choreographer Rani Luther
• Voice Over Artist Elise Greig
• Footage of brutal swan fight used with the kind permission of Carl Bovis.
• Wolfgang Hoffmann / Aurora Nova Worldwide booking & coordination
• Duck Pond is co-commissioned by QPAC and The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, The Art House Wyong, Frankston Arts Centre, HOTA – Home of the Arts, Merrigong Theatre Company and Orange Civic Theatre.
• Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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The world’s most romantic ballet, Swan Lake, reimagined as a family-friendly acrobatic spectacular.

• Date: Thursday, May 9th @ 11am
• Location: The Red Theater at NYU Abu Dhabi
• Format: Acrobatic Circus
• Age range: All ages
• Themes: Identity, true self