Geoff Dunstan is a founding member of Discolate – who perform 3 Speed Crunchbox at the Melba Speigeltent this November – owner of Ruccis Circus School and has a long term circus/permaculture garden project. HOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? While I was at

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EMMA J HAWKINS
VICEmma J Hawkins is an exceptionally multi-talented performer and accountant. She is currently in residence at Circus Oz working on the Fair Ground Project. Keep your eyes out next year to see where this exciting project goes. HOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE?

DJ Garner – Acrobat & Street Performer
VICDJ Garner is a Melbourne based street performer who performs as AD-DJ. When we asked DJ how long he’d been an ACAPTA member he recalled joining by writing his name down on a piece of paper handed around by Reg Bolton at the 2004 Circus

Ann Truong
VICAt the Melbourne Fringe Festival, ACAPTA sponsors an award acknowledging the talents of emerging artists. We are proud to announce the 2015 winner of our Best Emerging Circus Performer, Ann Truong for her work in ‘No Punchline’! HOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? I

Vincent Van Berkel
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? I followed a girl. Then I followed my nose! And now I follow my gut. WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO? Photographer, blogger. WHAT DOES CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE MEAN TO YOU? It’s the first thing that I truly and wholeheartedly

POW (Performing Older Women’s) Circus
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? In 1995 Jean Taylor, a then member of Women’s Circus, ran a series of workshops in circus skills for women aged 40+ culminating in a performance – Act Your Age. After the show the members decided to form

Rockie Stone
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? I danced my whole childhood, since the age of 3. At 18 I decided to get a science degree and play basketball instead. Struggling to push 5 foot, basketball wasn’t a natural choice, so when an older friend

Felicia [Flick] Lannan
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? My mum is a costume designer and part of her course had her designing and making costumes for the Flying Fruit Fly Circus’ end of year production. I’d been doing gymnastics for a few years and she brought

Sam Thomas
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? My mum is a choreographer/dancer teacher, as a child I operated the music in her classes. That was the start of it for me. I was 9yrs old when I began performing at festivals and community events in

Emma Joukadjian
VICHOW DID YOU GET INTO CIRCUS/PHYSICAL THEATRE? I am a physiotherapist who was originally working with elite sports such as artistic gymnastics and AFL when I was scouted for Cirque Du Soleil. I was interviewed in Shanghai with Quidam. The interview was successful and my