GASHA

From the creators of YOAH, the Japanese circus sensation that won the Weekly BankSA Best Circus Award for two consecutive years at Adelaide Fringe, Cirquework unveils its latest work — GASHA.

GASHA is a near-future celebration that explores the possibility of the world becoming one through Japanese culture.

On a moonlit night, you are invited into an enchanting and mysterious gathering.

The name GASHA draws inspiration from Japan’s playful gashapon capsule-toy machines — full of surprise and chance — and the elegance and theatricality often associated with the word geisha. Together, they reflect the show’s spirit: beauty and precision colliding with chaos, colour and unpredictability.

In this imagined world, nationality, skin colour and language dissolve, as hearts connect through a shared encounter with Japanese culture. Tradition is not something to be preserved unchanged — it transforms, collides and gives birth to new creation.

An international cast dressed in vivid kimono command the stage with breathtaking acrobatics, aerial performance and live electric shamisen.

Precision and chaos. Sensuality and control. Beauty collapses — only to be rebuilt into something new.

Here begins a new wave of Japanese circus.