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ONEIRIC – NICA’s New Mesmerising Circus Show

Abandon reality and immerse yourself into a world of dreams with NICA’s new third-year student ensemble show, ONEIRIC. The show combines jaw dropping aerial acrobatics, modern dance, music and sound to bring you on a journey through light and dark,…

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Circus delights galore in Barnum The Circus Musical

Witness circus history come to life before your eyes in Barnum, The Circus Musical for a limited 6 week season. As you trip down 19th century entertainment musical history, alongside charismatic protagonists Phineas Taylor Barnum, master of humbug, and his…

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NICA Circus Does Dance

NICA’s end of year Graduates Showcase is an annual must see in Melbourne. Packed audiences each night, with many famous artists and school alumni smiling along, show their enthusiasm for the group of skilled practitioners as they leap and bound…

Empty Bodies at NICA

WOW, is it ok to begin an article with WOW? Well too bad it’s done. Tucked away on Green Street Windsor is the National Institute of Circus Arts, known as NICA. I have walked past here on the way home…

Born In Sawdust – NICA Circus Show

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a circus performer? It isn’t all laughs and clowning around. ‘Born in Sawdust’, the new show at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), will captivate you with stories of love,…

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NICA’s Pescado: a circus-cabaret fusion

Picture yourself slowly walking from the sunny shores of Venice Beach and descending slowly beneath the breaking waves, into the world where scuba divers DJ and the circus ringmaster oddly resembles a tubby bearded walrus.  This and other fishy characters,…