Event information
Zip Zap Circus School joins forces with School of Rock for Full Tilt, a production pairing 25 young circus performers with 11 School of Rock musicians, aged between 11 and 33. Unlike most circus shows, which run to a pre-recorded soundtrack, the entire score is played live on stage, with performers and musicians responding to each other in real time rather than working to a fixed count.
Zip Zap is a Cape Town circus school founded in 1992, providing free circus training to young people across the city as an alternative form of youth development. Ticket income from Full Tilt goes toward funding these free programmes, and five of the performers in this production came up through Zip Zap’s own youth training before joining its professional touring troupe.
The show runs across seven performances over four days, combining acrobatics, aerial work and live music into a single continuous performance built on trust and improvisation between the two groups on stage.