Given how young its members are, it can come as
a surprise to learn that Gravity and Other Myths is
Australia’s longest-running acrobatic ensemble.
★★★★★
“ Magnetic… a perfect combination
of fluidity, mettle and danger.”
~ LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
Its core group met when they were eight as part
of the Cirkidz youth circus program in Adelaide,
and the more time they spent training together
the tighter the friendship circle grew. By the time
they graduated and formed their own company,
those bonds were as fast as cement, and now
that the group have been working together
for close to 18 years, the connections are nigh
on unbreakable.
“There’s absolutely no bullshit,” says the
company’s general manager Craig Harrison.
“There’s no ego. They never fight. It’s weird,
because I’ve been working in the arts my whole
life and these guys freak me out, how well they
get along. That commitment to being straight up
is what allows them to always move forward.
They’re mates and they’ve all got their company’s
interest at heart.”
It’s a rarity in an industry where vanity and self-