Welcome to the Gasworks Circus Showdown 2016 EOI! Gasworks Circus Showdown is a professional development program for artists culminating in a live onstage circus and physical theatre gala competition. Gasworks Circus Showdown is a platform for circus performers to develop innovative acts for presentation to a live audience and specialist judges, while honing their craft and learning new business skills along the way. Gasworks Arts Park invites individuals, duos or groups to participate in Gasworks Circus Showdown. One lucky entrant will be crowned Gasworks Circus Showdown Champion! Gasworks Circus Showdown provides an opportunity for emerging circus artists to showcase their vitality and talent with tangible outcomes in a professional venue. This competition-based performance series will feature two heats, live judging and the event will culminate in a Grand Final Gala show. Who is it aimed at? Circus performers of all kinds are welcome to enter. You must complete all sections of the entry form and be available for the rehearsal and performance dates including the Grand Final Gala show. How will it work? Submit your completed entry form along with vision or images of your act. Entries will be shortlisted, and those finalists will then perform in front of a live audience and our judges in the Gasworks Circus Showdown. Your act must be between 10 and 15 minutes in duration. Who will judge it? The judges will be drawn from Australia s professional circus and theatre ranks and details will be announced soon. The live audience will also be a judge and audience response will be an important criteria. Each judge will be visible and score the entrants in three key areas: technique, storytelling and theatricality, and finally, through audience reaction. Previous industry professionals who have participated as judges include Matt Wilson, Anni Davey, Kate Fryer and Andrea Ousley. 1
Your information * 1. Who will be the primary contact person? Name: Name of group (if applicable): Address: Suburb: State: Post Code: Email Address: Phone Number: Website (if applicable): YouTube Link (if applicable): 2
About Your Entry * 2. What is the title of your act or piece? (This can be a working title) 3. Which circus category does it belong to? (you can select more than one) Clowning Trapeze Balance Juggling Hoops Acrobatics Gymnastics Tumbling Trampoline Aerial silk Corde lisse Contortion Stilts Juggling Straps Equilibristics (plate spinning rolling globe) Physical comedy Fire eating, breathing or dancing Knife throwing Magic shows Sword swallowing Strongman. Rings Other (please specify) 3
4. In 300 words or less, please explain the act you are entering. * 5. Please provide a brief biography/work history and highlights for yourself, and/or participants in your act (e.g Have you performed previously, and if so where? Have you studied Circus or Physical Theatre? Do you have any career highlights to date?) * 6. Have you previously submitted an entry to Gasworks Circus Showdown? Yes No Other (please specify) 7. What do you think makes your act stand out? 4
Final Page Thanks for entering Gasworks Circus Showdown. Your submission is nearly done! If you have more info you would like to submit, just attach it to an email and send it to tony@gasworks.org.au and we will add it to your entry. To submit your entry, read and accept the T&Cs by ticking the boxes below, and click SUBMIT. Good luck! * 8. Please indicate you agree to the following terms and conditions I am / my group are available to perform the act at Gasworks Circus Showdown on either 1 or 2 June (heats) and, if selected, the final on Saturday 4 June. I acknowledge that the judge s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. I warrant that I and /or my group have the skills and training to safely and competently perform the act I am entering. 5