Melbourne Fringe Encore: Ocker
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Melbourne Fringe Presents
Melbourne Fringe Encore: Ocker
Soft bodies pressed against hard concrete, this is circus in pursuit of us
24 Oct 2026
– 25 Oct 2026
Sessions
Information
Show type
Street Theatre
duration
60 minutes, no interval
Location
Civic Hall Ballarat
Time
SAT 24 OCT: 11.00AM
SAT 24 OCT: 2.00PM
SUN 25 OCT: 11.00AM
SUN 25 OCT: 2.00PM
SAT 24 OCT: 2.00PM
SUN 25 OCT: 11.00AM
SUN 25 OCT: 2.00PM
Prices
This is a FREE unticketed event
Suitable for
All Ages, Family, FRINGE
Forget Poetic. This is Aussie culture chewed up and spewed onto the streets.
A show in motion, Ocker is a roving circus show tearing through the streets on a portable railway track built in real time. This modern-day hunting party weaves through crowds, laying track wherever the chase leads. Down laneways, through parks, and over tram lines, the troupe is chasing something just out of reach.
Charging forward with single-minded determination, they drag the audience along for the ride. The city of Ballarat becomes a playground for strange encounters, risky acrobatics, and absurd acts of endurance as circus erupts in the most unexpected places. Improvised scenes constantly derail the hunt as the troupe negotiates crowds, obstacles, and their own terrible ideas.
Swept up in the chaos of the chase, Ocker waits for nobody. Keeping up is entirely your responsibility.
Content Warnings: Contains sudden and sustained loud noises. High voluntary audience participation.
Na Djinang Circus envisions a bold future for Blak circus on unceded Indigenous lands, deeply informed by Indigenous Cultural knowledges and ways of being. Our purpose is to elevate Blak Australian circus nationally and internationally, fostering new practices, works, and futures through research, articulation, and agitation. From the western suburbs of Naarm we create contemporary circus that works to share unique insights with the next generation's Hands & Feet. Our ambition goes beyond creating work, we strive to create holistic cultural processes that shape the future of our work and the circus form.
This project was supported through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts program and MECCA. It was Fringe Funded through Deadly Fringe, with special thanks to the Canny Quine Foundation, Robert Salzer Foundation, Sue Beeton Fund, Julie Kantor and Craig Semple. This project was supported by Visit Victoria, the City of Ballarat. This project was co-commissioned by HOTA.
Na Djinang Circus is generously supported by Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and the Sue Beeton Fund.
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
A show in motion, Ocker is a roving circus show tearing through the streets on a portable railway track built in real time. This modern-day hunting party weaves through crowds, laying track wherever the chase leads. Down laneways, through parks, and over tram lines, the troupe is chasing something just out of reach.
Charging forward with single-minded determination, they drag the audience along for the ride. The city of Ballarat becomes a playground for strange encounters, risky acrobatics, and absurd acts of endurance as circus erupts in the most unexpected places. Improvised scenes constantly derail the hunt as the troupe negotiates crowds, obstacles, and their own terrible ideas.
Swept up in the chaos of the chase, Ocker waits for nobody. Keeping up is entirely your responsibility.
Content Warnings: Contains sudden and sustained loud noises. High voluntary audience participation.
Na Djinang Circus envisions a bold future for Blak circus on unceded Indigenous lands, deeply informed by Indigenous Cultural knowledges and ways of being. Our purpose is to elevate Blak Australian circus nationally and internationally, fostering new practices, works, and futures through research, articulation, and agitation. From the western suburbs of Naarm we create contemporary circus that works to share unique insights with the next generation's Hands & Feet. Our ambition goes beyond creating work, we strive to create holistic cultural processes that shape the future of our work and the circus form.
This project was supported through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Languages and Arts program and MECCA. It was Fringe Funded through Deadly Fringe, with special thanks to the Canny Quine Foundation, Robert Salzer Foundation, Sue Beeton Fund, Julie Kantor and Craig Semple. This project was supported by Visit Victoria, the City of Ballarat. This project was co-commissioned by HOTA.
Na Djinang Circus is generously supported by Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, the City of Melbourne, and the Sue Beeton Fund.
Photo: Tiffany Garvie
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Na Djinang Circus
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