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May 16, 2022

“If you want to change who’s in the audience, you need to change who’s onstage.” is the firm credo under which circus director Billy Alwen and his collaborators built Extraordinary Bodies- which focuses on representation for disabled circus artists.

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Extraordinary Bodies Website: https://www.extraordinarybodies.org.uk/

Watch Humans: https://youtu.be/rgRGN08_W30

Cirque Bijou: https://www.cirquebijou.co.uk/

Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/05/circus-extraordinary-bodies-human