1980

Circus Oz

Bold, demotic, colourful, openly and bawdily satirical, Circus Oz make their UK debut at the old Roundhouse, London. Not quite traditional, yet building on traditional skills and a traditional aesthetic, Oz combine performances with live, contemporary music and inject their circus with a strong feminist and libertarian political sensibility. Touring the world they influence many of the companies, large and small, that arise in the ensuing decade, and one of Oz’s original members, Sue Broadway, will play a particular role in UK circus as a founder of Ra-Ra Zoo.