Australia's world-renowned Flying Fruit Fly Circus school is focused on an upcoming show at the Sydney Opera House as it soars on the back of record federal funding and a global talent deal. The specialised school in the border city of Albury in NSW trains the next generation of circus performers, with classes made up of students aged eight to 19. The school recently celebrated its 45th birthday, was awarded record funding in the May federal budget and became one of six training centres worldwide to join a talent scouting deal with Canadian contemporary circus juggernaut, Cirque du Soleil.
"It's been a really big year," acting chief executive and executive producer Tahni Froudist told AAP. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "It's kind of always like that here at the Fruities.
"There is something that's magic about these young kids here in Albury Wodonga, incredible things ...
follow in their wake when they work so hard." The Fruities are developing their upcoming show, Big Sky, which will be performed at the Sydney Opera House in September. "Big sky, open sky, blue sky is metaphorically about freedom, about lack of restrictions, about space, about creativity," the school's artistic director and former Circus Oz aerialist Anni Davey told AAP.
"And yet the experience of living in the country can sometimes, for some kids, be very claustrophobic by restricting rather than offering that openness." The show explores a dream-like wo.
