The beginning can be a very good place to start. But as you might have intuited, a performance titled Humans 2.0 isn’t a starting point—it’s a beautiful continuation.
When members of the innovative Australian circus company Circa hit the Center for the Arts stage April 12, expect them to blur the lines of what acrobatics and circus can be, and explore what it means to be human in 2026.
“The first show, Humans, was really about exploring how to humanize acrobatics by accessing groove, by looking at keeping bodies in motion and breaking the biomechanical alignment of acrobatics to see what we could do,” Circa’s artistic director Yaron Lifschitz said in an interview with LA Dance Chronicle. "If Humans centered the individual body, Humans 2.0 is about “the group, and the group has this endless series of motions, interactions, trying to find points of balance and equilibrium.”
Another point of differentiation and evolution: Humans 2.0 was created during a time of profound social upheaval. “We made it during COVID, so we had a different sense of what it meant to be together, to share a room, to touch each other. Those things had suddenly become poeticized and politicized in a way that they weren’t when we made the first show.”
Based in Brisbane, Australia, Circa has performed sold-out shows in 45 countries across six continents. The company has been performing for more than two decades, with the aim of redefining the art form by showcasing how extreme physicality can forge powerful and emotive experiences. We invite you to join in this performance, and take in their conception of the human experience.
“Humans 2.0 is a seriously sensational spectacle: as aesthetic as it is athletic, as comedic as it is grave, and all in all, a visceral delight.” —The Conversation