Australia’s most influential circus company? The Fruities at 40

Born out of a school holiday program run by the enterprising Murray River Performing Group in 1979, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus – ‘the Fruities’ to their friends – was never intended to be a long-term project, let alone a well-established and respected circus school whose graduates now perform around the world.

Having evolved into one of the world’s leading youth arts companies, today the Fruities are a celebrated producer of contemporary youth circus and a national centre of arts training excellence based in Albury, in regional NSW.

Given the number of young people who pass through the company’s doors each year, the Fruities’ impact on the sector is significant – indeed, it could be argued that the Flying Fruit Fly Circus has become one of the most important circus companies in Australia.

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