Circa

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Oct 5, 2024

Circa

Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble

Circa reimagines “Swan Lake,” the world’s most romantic ballet, as a circus spectacular—full of the company’s signature physicality, cheeky humor and thoroughly contemporary energy. Be swept away by this tale of swans and hapless princes, sparkling with quirky touches like a sequinned flipper-wearing duck army and a burlesque black swan. There are sumptuous aerials, jaw-dropping acrobatics and—of course—feathers! Touching, funny and utterly entertaining, “Duck Pond” is a tale of identity and finding your true self.

For more than 85 years, the Artist Series has brought the globe's finest jazz, classical, world music and dance performers to Boulder. Many of these performances sell out; order your tickets today to guarantee the best seats.

Performance date and time

Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, 7:30 p.m. Remind me

Buying options and discounts

Save 15-25% with season tickets. Available in the Full Artist SeriesChoice 4Choice 6 and as an Add-On to any other season ticket order. Single ticket discounts available for groups (10+), seniors (65+), youth (K-12) and CU Boulder faculty, staff and students. Learn more

Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Duck Pond is co-commissioned by QPAC and The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, The Art House Wyong, Frankston Arts Centre, HOTA-Home of the Arts, Merrigong Theatre Company and Orange Civic Theatre.

Photo credit: Damien Bredberg

Taking Flight

Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Ugly Duckling” was published in 1843. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky began composing “Swan Lake” in 1875. What it might portend that the two fairy tales arose out of the waning of Romanticism and waxing of modernism would likely intrigue Yaron Lifschitz, artistic director of Circa.

Lisa Kennedy

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Artists

Circa Contemporary Circus

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