UNDER CONSTRUCTION RESIDENTS 2025 ANNOUNCED
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus is pleased to announce the 8 projects that we will support through our Under Construction Residency program this year.
Under Construction supports emerging and established artists in Australia to develop and perform original new circus and physical theatre works. It provides structure for creative development, concluding with a work-in-progress showing or performance at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.
Since 2021, 103 artists have worked on 28 projects through the Under Construction program. In 2025 we are set to welcome another 39 artists over 8 residencies. We can’t wait to welcome them to Albury Wodonga, share our facilities and support world class independent circus being developed in Australia.
The 2025 Under Construction Residents are:
Bridie Hooper – Be Subservient To My Ambition
Winter Cyan – Signal
Kirk Page – SMOKE
Go No Go – Most Notorious Pyrates
Na Djinang Circus – A Desperate Want
Isabelle Champagne-Chittick – Heartful
Jake Silvestro & Ania Reynolds – Noisemakers
Split Focus – Campfire
Bridie Hooper
Be Subservient To My Ambition
A pursuit of power embodied through a woman’s ambition to ascend. Performed entirely on straps, this work pairs an exceptional circus-informed physical performance with a unique multi-channel composition to create an intimate, immersed, live-art experience.
Photo Credit : Billie Wilson-Coffey
Winter Cyan
Signal
Signal is a contemporary circus show that uses technology to translate acrobatic movement into live music. The residency will allow the team to redevelop the work to include responsive lighting and greater accessibility.
Kirk Page
SMOKE
SMOKE delves into how movement and ritual transform us. Performers connect with ancestral wisdom, shedding suffering while embodying the ethereal nature of smoke, transcending time and space. Inspired by both science and spirituality, the production reflects life’s creation through the interaction of clay and organic matter, themes found in global cultures. It incorporates Indigenous oral traditions and ancestral knowledge, underscoring our sacred relationship with Earth and its elements.
GO NO GO
Most Notorious Pyrates
Circus meets the high seas in this mostly true tale of two legendarily unlikely pirate adventurers! In the Golden Age of piracy, the was none more revered than Calico Jack and his crew, including two of the most feared, most unconventional and extravagant, pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
Most Notorious Pyrates is a story of breaking conventions, defying gender norms, and setting sale for adventure, told through acrobatics, aerials, juggling, and live sea shanties.
NA DJINANG CIRCUS
A Desperate Want
This contemporary circus production traverses form and narrative to challenge audience expectations of the genre while grappling with themes of passiveness and ambiguity through a First Nations lens.
Isabelle Champagne-Chittick
Heartful
Heartful is a solo physical theatre and circus work exploring connection, land, culture, and strength. Blending dance trapeze, physical theatre, and storytelling, the performance brings the natural flow and energy of the landscape to life, inviting audiences on a journey of identity and connection across generations.
Jake Silvestro & Ania Reynolds
Noisemakers
Expanding on their ongoing professional collaboration, Ania Reynolds and Jake Silvestro will explore the creation of sound and song within physical performance. Working with a multigenerational ensemble, Noisemakers will burst with joy and excitement on stage by creating a sonic experience that is built in unconventional ways through flips, tricks, riffs and licks!
SPLIT FOCUS
Campfire
A Scary Thing Happened by the Campfire is a fun, buddy-comedy-turned-wrong that originally premiered at Melbourne Fringe 2024. The residency will allow the team to deepen the integration of circus elements in the work, a universal medium to explore the destructive force of toxic masculinity.
Applications for the 2026 residencies will open in the second half of 2025. Register here if you’d like to be the first to know when they are open.
