KDO @ Forest National

For this event, Franco Dragone has called on artists and acrobat friends from all over the world. This is an anthology of some of the best circus acts from around the globe: many are award-winning performers from some of the best international festivals.

From Natalia to Morgan

From Natalia Vasiliuk, a master contortionist from the Ukraine, to Morgan, a French juggler whose dazzling smile is only equalled by his skill in controlling his obedient white balls; from Jesko and Guennadi, contemporary clowns with their intriguing, contrasting figures, to Julien Posada, a tightrope acrobat with the style of a flamenco dancer, one of only two or three acrobats in this discipline who have the ability to perform backward and forward somersaults on the wire, practically in a single breath. There will also be a mind-blowing Swedish contortionist duo, twins who not only look alike but contort themselves as a pair; another female duo, Polinde, performing in a discipline long reserved for men, excel several metres above the ground; two South African acrobats, the Joka Boyz, who reinvent eternal brotherhood with a bench; a Canadian tightrope walker, Erica Lemay; and last but not least, Australian trapeze artist, Emma Henshall, a recent gold medal winner at the International Circus Festival of Tomorrow and considered by her peers to be one of the best in the world, particularly for the extraordinary fluidity of her sequences.