"Under director Yaron Lifschitz, Rock 'n' Roll Circus has become an ensemble that knows no fear … Sure, (the piece is) not the tango itself, but as an irreverent, circus-based paraphrase on the dance, it's hard to beat."
The Australian

  
     

Tango

First there is the music. The great avant garde tangos of Astor Piazzolla. Rock 'n' Roll Circus uses Piazzolla's inner passion, dynamics and almost spiritual devotion to the sensual as their starting point. But no dance! And no Latin lovers or other tango cliches. This is the inner music of the characters. The tango is the dance of their souls.

On the outside they inhabit a world inspired by American painter Edward Hopper. Four people sit, drinking in a bar. They are flushed with desire, alcohol and the most potent drug of all memory. A patina of longing lingers in the air.

Tango traces their journeys through the course of a single night. It attempts to (in poet James Merrill's words) "make some kind of house/ out of the life lived, out of the love spent". Tango is an exploration of the perils of intimacy and the search for home.

Of course there is also some Bob Dylan, a little opera, a wide mixture of skills, and a couple of gags.

 

 
Rock 'n' Roll Circus

Rock 'n' Roll Circus creates high energy physical theatre for thrill starved audiences. It aims to shatter. It relentlessly pursues the most powerful of theatrical expressions. It produces theatre with a poetic reach featuring moments of heightened lyricism, danger, passions and excitement.

Since it pioneered the art of physical theatre in 1986, Rock 'n' Roll Circus has evolved into one of Australia's most progressive and innovative theatre companies. Rock 'n' Roll Circus has won both the Green Room and the Matilda Awards for its unique productions.

The culmination of high end physical theatre and energetic emotional journeys has catapulted Rock 'n' Roll into the international spotlight. Rock 'n' Roll Circus has toured throughout Australia to the Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney festivals. Worldwide, Rock 'n' Roll Circus has been invited to perform in Edinburgh, Germany, Spain and was featured at the 1994 Singapore Festival.

www.rocknroll.com

 
 
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Ms Tory Loudon
International Agent
c/o Marguerite
Pepper Productions
24 Telopea Street
Redfern NSW 2016
Tel +61 2 9699 2111
Fax +61 2 9699 9405
tory@mpproductions.com.au
or
Ms Linden Tierney
General Manager
Rock 'n' Roll Circus
PO Box 116
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006
Tel +61 7 3852 3110
Fax +61 7 3852 3120
info@rocknrollcircus.com.au