Catapult Youth Performing Arts Festival. 2005

The Brewarrina Circus Project secured funding for the group to produce a New Work to be performed at the first National Youth Performing Arts Festival, Catapult being held in Bathurst, September 2005.

The Project ran a 6 week long Training Intensive prior to the Bathurst Tour which concluded with a Community Show, performed at the Brewarrina Community Hall.

The Community Show "Makin' Moves", presented the work of 75 young Circus Artists from the Brewarrina Circus, 16 of these Artists were then selected to perform as part of the Catapult Festival. Here are some images from this show.

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Artists:
John Kirby - Magic, Sword Box, Plates, Diablo and our own Johnny Croon
Rachel Dodds - Strops, Stilts Dancer
Tiffany Winters - Hip Hop, 4 Trapeze and Hat and Cane
Sam Gordon -Double Ring, 4 Trapeze, Fishnets, Contortion
Peta-Maree Gordon - Double Ring, 4 Trapeze, Contortion
Nikita Williams - Solo Ring, Contortion
Warwick Williams - Tumbling, Diablo
Charlotte Bloomfield - 4 Trapeze, Toss the Student
Belinda Bloomfield - Sword Box
Ivy Dwyer - Plates
Bernadette Campbell - Stilts Dancer
Kyla Boney - Stilts Dancer
Jessica Hardy - Fishnets
David Biles - Tumbling
Chris Barker - Tumbling
Anthony Murphy - Tumbling, Web, Diablo

Trainers:
Kate Reid, Artistic Director/Trainer, Jude Emmett - Trainer, Zoe Ellis - Trainer, Jesse Scott - Trainer

Thanks to our tour assistants, Rhonda Williams, Peter Gordon, Norma Bloomfield and Bill Palmer

Thanks to The NSW Ministry for the Arts, The Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Joblink Plus - Tamworth, for funding training and rehearsals
for this 6 week long Project and Tour