A House, A Home is your chance to experience the intimacy of a home as a site for circus artists to interact with the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Intimate, surprising, and delightful, this show invites you into a home and gives you the opportunity to experience circus up close.  

“From the moment you arrive to the moment you leave, A House, A Home blurs the boundaries between life and art; a truly spectacular experience…This is what the circus for the future should look like.” - Bravo Gold Coast

A House, A Home explores the house as a commodity and as a home that is created by the people who inhabit it and interact with its spaces. Ultimately the project is a joyful celebration of the notions of home and community. The audience are invited to view the architecture of the building as a house and then to experience it as a site-specific stage for contemporary circus artists to interact with the ordinary in extraordinary ways. A House, A Home is an immersive experience; a real estate agent leads the audience from room to room, where they experience circus vignettes and direct interaction with the circus artists. Intimate and wondrous, A House, A Home will transform the way audiences view a specific residence and their own homes.

A House, A Home is a site specific work, unique to it’s venue.
It was developed in a Pimpama residency in 2022, and presented in The Farm warehouse space the same year.
It was presented at Kingfisher House, a residential home in Currumbin Waters, in 2023.

Images by Ellamay Fitzgerald and Currumbin Photography

A House, A Home is available for festivals and can be adapted to be presented in a house, warehouse or a blackbox space. Contact us for more information.

Artists involved during creative development and presentations: Elena Khaw, Justine Milburn, Ophelia Novak, Phoebe Carlson, Sam Ellis, Tiana Pinnell, and T’la Morrow, under the direction of Darcie Rae Boatswain.

This project has been supported by GENERATE GC, which is a City of Gold Coast initiative delivered in partnership with Tasdance and SITUATE Art in Festivals. Generate GC acknowledges the Yugambeh people, the traditional owners of the land on which we work, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on the Gold Coast today.

Sections of this project have been supported by RADF. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and the City of Gold Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.

A section of this project has been supported by Arts Queensland’s Individuals Fund.