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Jake Silvestro

A circus and visual artist, Jake Silvestro focuses his artistic output on narrative, collaboration of forms and acrobatic research. Jake has worked with the internationally successful Circus OZ, CIRCA, Casus, Company 2, Dislocate, The Flying Fruit Flies Circus, GOP, and Lingua Franca. He is know for his signature style of explosive and expressive acrobatics inspired by dance, martial arts and circus. Jake was the founder and director of Poncho Circus which produced and toured physical theatre productions around Australia between 2012 – 2017. Using narrative, emotion, and movement of the body, he is defining a dialogue between each form in his first solo work ‘December’. Jake’s unique personal experience and unusual combination of skills adds to the collective conversation between visual arts and physical theatre in this new work. Jake’s latest work ‘December’ will premiere at the Canberra Theatre in April 2022.