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Flying Fruit Fly Circus to Relaunch Melbourne’s Circus Oz Centre

The centre is due to open in October 2025 as a training hub aimed at nurturing Australia’s next generation of circus performers.

Flying Fruit Fly Circus chief executive Richard Hull and artistic director Anni Davey are on top of the world after revealing an expansion to Melbourne. Picture by Mark Jesser
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Overview

  • The Victorian government awarded Flying Fruit Fly Circus a public tender to manage the Collingwood facility originally built for Circus Oz in 2014.
  • Under the new arrangement the building will be renamed Circus Centre Melbourne and Circus Oz will continue as a tenant.
  • The hub is set to introduce expanded training programs and performance spaces when it opens in October 2025.
  • Flying Fruit Fly Circus will recruit a Melbourne-based team to run the centre while its full-time school remains at Albury-Wodonga.
  • The takeover safeguards the purpose-built venue from repurposing after funding cuts in 2021 forced Circus Oz to downsize and halt external hires since March.