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ACROBAT
Propaganda
World premiere: March 11-21, 2010 at Albury HotHouse Theatre, Australia

Production : Marguerite Pepper Productions, Australia

Back in Australia after a phenomenal smaller poorer cheaper world tour in 2006, 2007 and 2008, acrobat is currently working on a new show : it will be presented in world premiere in march 2010 in Albury (Australia) and is then available on tour in Europe from April til September 2010. Contact us for more informations!

Founded by Simon Yates and Jo-Ann Lancaster in the mid 90's, the australian ensemble acrobat is one of the most fascinating creative experience that has arisen from that huge continent.

Creators of an absolutely unique and yet typically australian universe, they create a blend of astonishing acrobatic techniques with a higly personal vision on modern society.

Indeed, each of their productions are inspired by their own lives, which consisted for many years in extreme training sessions in the backyard of their little house in Albury, Australia. Penniless, but willing to find their own acrobatic language, Simon Yates and Jo-Ann Lancaster have developed over the years a true ethic and special way of living, made of intense physical training and strict organic food. First of all, to build up the physical condition required for top acrobats, but also in reaction to western consumer society.

That desire to go against the tide of contemporary escalation can be seen in the anti-aesthetic of their productions : raw, without compromise, they are basically focused on the personnality and the body at work of the acrobats. It's the antidote for glamourous circus trends: no pose, no decor, no costumes, to go straight to what is essential: human being.

Typically australian, yes they are, by the great sense of self-derision that emerges from each of their productions, always mixing acrobatic perfection with a ferocious, dry sense of humour.

smaller, poorer, cheaper, their previous show, was a manifesto for a simpler life, avoiding any superfluous elements, and confessing about the akwardest, funniest and sometimes painful moments of each performer's life. Yates, Lancaster, Mozes (acrobat) and Tim Barrass (musician), were acrobatically exploring their own pasts with a rare sincerity and hilarious boldness.

Propaganda looks at the future, the one we're making each day by our actions. A couple of naive and muscly revolutionnaries filled with unwavering ideals, invite you to their family demo of very simple methods to fight injustice, promote solidarity, and energize class struggle !

The revolution starts here

With: Simon Yates / Jo-Ann Lancaster / Grover Lancaster-Cole / Fidel Lancaster-Cole
Music: Tim Barrass
Riggers and stage managers: Ryan Taplin / Scott Grayland

A HotHouse Theatre commission.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.


Avec le soutien de La Brèche, centre des arts du cirque de Basse Normandie.

PRESS REVIEW

On stage, they perform as they are. The content and the form are one, the show is a window open on their lives. They reveal their intimacy, wedding, life as a couple, housework, disease... "They tell their difficulties to live a simple and free life in a prescriptive society." adds their manager. You are not far from punk. For that matter, Mozes has a creast on his head... It's raw. You balance between contemplation and action, between laughters, absurdness and darkness. Always with a huge sense of self derision. A quality that fails so much to French artists. Le Quotidien de La Reunion, 2008

A series of moments that are stunning not only for the extraordinary skills employed; there is an element of autobiography in all these turns, which use the impossible feat as a metaphor for the struggle of life itself. Lyn Gardner - The Guardian, 2007

"Smaller, poorer, cheaper" gives flesh and blood to the old statement "Less is more". Honestly, it's even greater. Essential. J. Bernede - Le Midi Libre, 2007

"smaller poorer cheaper" is a terrific and tightly wrapped show that shocks, provokes and amuses. acrobat is an exceptional troupe, layering physical skills with multiple implications playing with our expectations and puncturing our complacency. H. Crampton - The Age, 2006

The audience were enthralled. Acrobat is an odd mix of the crude and the graceful... A blend of opposing extremes. A. Lye - Singapore Business Times, 2002

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