Murmur

  • Kids & Families
  • Circus
  • Theatre
  • Studio
  • Run time - 50 minutes

What’s that rustling in my backpack?

Direct from Europe, Murmur is both circus and sound theatre for families. Daringly, it plays with all the senses - with rustling sound backpacks, a landscape of speakers and an acrobatic composer!

For the first time in Australia, join Murmur’s visual circus and a multi-sensory acrobatic sound composition! This is an imaginative performance for everyone who sometimes longs to be more than just human.

Camiel is building a world full of sounds. A purring cat comes from a pocket, a swarm of bees flies through the air, two arms create the sound of cars. Far away you hear a finger squeaking on a window. Sea becomes wind becomes breath. 

Surrounded by the audience, Camiel jumps, falls, rolls and flies in his attempt to compose the world. Suddenly the audience’s backpacks start to buzz and everything and everyone becomes part of a swirl of sounds in a loudspeaker landscape.

Sydney Opera House presents a Grensgeval production

Event details

A dancing symphony for one acrobat, two speakers and a score of tiny sound-boxes: Murmur balances on the border between acrobatics and sound.

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About the artists

Grensgeval makes performances with and/or for children and young people. 

They are a new circus company founded by Hanne Vandersteene and Mahlu Mertens, interested in exploring both physical, sensory and visual languages when they make performances. They make theater that not only stimulates visually, but also does so with smells, sounds, touch or tastes and thus creates its own imaginative world.

The company takes children’s fantasy and intuition as a starting point to explore adult themes. In the productions, Grensgeval places these themes in a new, consciously naive logic, mixed with a dose of anarchy and punk! On stage they build a world in which the audience is in the middle and at times even plays an active part.

Grensgeval has performed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Finland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Ireland, England, Scotland, Austria, Denmark, Norway and China.

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Studio

The Studio is located in the north-western corner of Sydney Opera House, best accessed through the Western Foyers.

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