Thrilling fun for the whole family

The world-famous Flying Fruit Fly Circus returns to The Cube Wodonga with their brand-new show.

Girls With Altitude combines the cartoons of celebrated Australian artist Judy Horacek (Where is the Green Sheep?), with the world-class skills of the young artists of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

There will be five shows - Thursday, February 24 at 11am and 6.30pm; Friday, February 25 at 6.30pm and Saturday, February 26 at 2pm and 6.30pm.

Get your tickets here.

It stars the world-class skills of an all-girl cast of 20 acrobats aged 8 to 18.

The show explores notions of aspiration, achievement and how we imagine success for young people in the rapidly evolving future.

The superheroes of tomorrow are female and are changing the world.

Modern day role models like Greta Thunberg and Jacinda Ardern are inspiring a whole new generation of young people who want to make a difference.

From the environment to equality, the young acrobats propose new perspectives on the future using their famously exuberant mix of youthful energy and high-level circus skills.

Girls With Altitude is created by artistic director Anni Davey.

Biography:

Anni Davey OAM is the Artistic Director of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, and since 2018 has created Back in the Big Top featuring 70 young acrobats, Time Flies for Sydney Festival 2020, Endangered Species an outdoor promenade work for Borderville 2020 and Girls With Altitude.

Anni has had a significant history within Australian contemporary circus, since she first joined Circus Oz in 1987.

In the early 1990s Anni was involved in the formation of two independent performing companies, both highly regarded as creating seminal works in circus and in musical theatre.

Club Swing toured their aerial shows Appetite and Razorbaby around Australia and internationally from 1994 to 1999.

Crying In Public Places toured three a-cappella theatre shows (Crying in Public Places, Jump! and Skin) around Australia and internationally until 2001.

Anni’s directing practice includes a fruitful collaboration with Sarah Ward.

Their shows together have won nine Green Room awards for Cabaret including Best Director (twice), and Best Diva, and a Helpmann award for Best Cabaret Artist in 2014.

Anni also directed Maude Davey’s retrospective My Life in the Nude which has played to critical acclaim in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart.

Anni directed Circus Oz’s acclaimed show Twentysixteen, the USA tour of Straight Up (2017), the Australian regional tour of Model Citizens (2017, 2018) and the education show Stacks On and Tin Top (late 2017).

In 2016 Anni spent a month in New York City as Guest Director with Brooklyn’s LAVA, a dance company with a circus repertoire, on the development of their 2017 show A Goddessey.

In 2015 Anni and her twin sister Maude joined forces to create Retro Futurismus, a cabaret prognostication which has played three sold out seasons at 45 Downstairs in Melbourne (2015, 2016 and 2018) and featured at the 2017 Sydney Festival, 2017 Darwin Festival and the 2018 WA Circus Festival.

Anni has directed three Sandfly Circus productions in Broome, Total Rebuild in 2015, Nibjlm in 2016 and Come Fly With in 2017.

Anni sat on the Board of Melbourne Fringe for ten years including two years as Chair (2006, 2007) and was Chair of the Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association (ACAPTA) from 2010 until 2017. She currently sits on the Board of Circus Oz.

In 2020 Anni received an OAM for services to the circus sector.

Biography:

Judy Horacek became a cartoonist in her mid-twenties, when she was wondering what to do with her life, and someone suggested she try cartooning.

That fitted well with her love of drawing and writing and making people laugh, and was also a wonderful way of having her say about issues that were important to her, such as feminism and the environment.

She has drawn cartoons for many books, magazines and campaigns, and has had regular cartooning gigs in The Age, The Australian Magazine and the Canberra Times.

Ten collections of her cartoons have been published.

Judy also creates children’s books, both on her own and with Mem Fox, including the incredibly successful Where is the Green Sheep?, which all started with a tiny etching Judy had done of a green sheep that caught Mem’s eye.

She makes and regularly exhibits her watercolours and limited-edition prints.

Currently she is working on a number of collaborative projects, and thinking about new methods of combining words and images in ways that make people think and try to save the planet.