Resisting gravity: Circa and I Fagiolini's How Like an Angel for Beyond Barbican and CoLF

By Katja Vaghi, 02 July 2013

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Reviewed at St Bartholomew-the-Great, Cloth Fair, London on 26 June 2013

Various, How Like an Angel

Circa

I Fagiolini

An acrobatic Orpheus and Eurydice in Edinburgh

Roy Westbrook, 13th August

The music plays second fiddle to Australian circus company Circa in Yaron Lifschitz’s production of Gluck's great opera.

***11

A breathtaking Daphnis et Chloé opens Multitudes festival

Eleanor Knight, 23rd April

Aaron Lifschitz directs contemporary circus artists, Circa in an exhilarating, ecstatic performance with the London Philharmonic to launch the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

****1

Stunning acrobatics, a forlorn farewell: Dido and Aeneas in Sydney

Zoltán Szabó, 13th March

Yaron Lifschitz mesmerises from the opening tableaux’s row of candles in his Purcell staging for Opera Australia, featuring Circa, a Brisbane-based circus company.

****1

Total drama in Orpheus and Eurydice at Opera Australia

Jeremy Eccles, 12th January

Man of the circus Yaron Lifschitz gives Orpheus and Euridice the Gesamtkunstwerk treatment in his involving production that arrives from Brisbane.

*****

Fellini goes Baroque with Circa and the ABO

Jeremy Eccles, 19th January

Acrobats flying to the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries makes for a surprising but highly entertaining combination in this energetic pastiche.

*****

Superhuman skill in Circa's world premiere of Sacre

Sarah Navin, 30th January

The circus mastery, physical brilliance and risk-taking choreography is what makes Circa a stand-out on the international stage – stretching movement capabilities with each electric encounter.

****1

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.