Circa brings Wolf home to Brisbane for its Australian premiere — a contemporary circus work inspired by pack power and featuring Circa’s trademark style, formidable physical skill and awe-inspiring execution.

Created by Circa Artistic Director Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa Ensemble, Wolf was commissioned by La Comète and co-produced with Chamäleon Berlin, where it made its world premiere in August 2024. It then travelled through Europe, the UK and Canada before returning to the company’s home base in Brisbane for this brief season at QPAC.

Circa’s Wolf. Photo © Andy Phillipson

Directed by Lifschitz, who also designed the staging, Wolf is performed by an ensemble of 10 Circa acrobats in two acts. Thematically, it explores ideas of the inner animal and the untameable self, as well as the construction and destruction that are possible when individuals become a collective.

The work digs deeper into themes that Lifschitz and long-time collaborator Ori Lichtik explored in Humans 2.0 earlier in the year. Sound design by Lichtik blends discordant, off-kilter classical elements with a thumping backbeat that ebbs and...