Featuring elite performers born from San Francisco’s world class circus community, veterans of the famed Seven Fingers circus troupe, and a Guinness World Record holder. The cast includes acclaimed storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee, integrating narrative with the circus talents of Fleeky Flanco, Brad Henderson, Inka Siefker, Colin Davis, Rachel Strickland, Olga Kosova, and Micah Walters. The production boasts a set design by Michael Murnane of the Cardboard Institute of Technology. Michael creates compelling, odd sculptures and character driven environments, often for film/storytelling projects including Coraline, ParaNorman, and the last Star Wars films.
Raised by Wolves is about the moments that define us. It is a collection of circus cabaret, storytelling and a kaleidoscope vision of the hopes that hold us captive and the challenges that set us free. In trailing the jumble of threads that are created from our choices we weave our identity. These same labyrinths become the keys to our advancement, and the locked doors that keep us from it. Featuring world renowned circus performers and award-winning storytellers in an ego-splicing of reality and dream-sequence, you are invited to watch a conversation between desire and fear, their inevitable tumble down the rabbit hole and the fight to reach the light at the other end.
Raised by Wolves is part storytelling part circus show. Storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee (nationally recognized slam poetry champions and acclaimed storytellers as seen on NPR’s Snap Judgement) accompany a modular collection of world class circus talent known for their boundary-breaking work. Each Storyteller illuminates a different facet of the shows main concept, the idea that the challenges in your life are what ultimately create you. Each circus performer lives this challenge in front of you on stage, creating a work that is alive and changing. Depending on which night you arrive you may see a completely different take on the same exact show, but the meaning remains the same.
About Circus Automatic:
Circus Automatic brings disparate audiences together for a show that achieves both highly structured performance, and an immersive environment more akin to the experiential reality of clubs, carnivals, and city streets. We dream of a floating world; a temporary autonomous zone which the audience experiences as an imaginary reality. A reality which reflects the everyday in a way that illuminates the dark wood wandering of life.
"Serpentine Inka Siefker tucking her head neatly into the small of her own back as her legs arch over to shoot an arrow into a target with her toes is a feat without adjectives." SF Weekly
"It’s rare that a home grown circus manages to blend personality, technical wizardry, and just the right touch of San Francisco weirdness." The Bold Italic
“The most exciting and innovative circus in the Bay Area” SF Weekly
show less
Raised by Wolves is about the moments that define us. It is a collection of circus cabaret, storytelling and a kaleidoscope vision of the hopes that hold us captive and the challenges that set us free. In trailing the jumble of threads that are created from our choices we weave our identity. These same labyrinths become the keys to our advancement, and the locked doors that keep us from it. Featuring world renowned circus performers and award-winning storytellers in an ego-splicing of reality and dream-sequence, you are invited to watch a conversation between desire and fear, their inevitable tumble down the rabbit hole and the fight to reach the light at the other end.
Raised by Wolves is part storytelling part circus show. Storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee (nationally recognized slam poetry champions and acclaimed storytellers as seen on NPR’s Snap Judgement) accompany a modular collection of world class circus talent known for their boundary-breaking work. Each Storyteller illuminates a different facet of the shows main concept, the idea that the challenges in your life are what ultimately create you. Each circus performer lives this challenge in front of you on stage, creating a work that is alive and changing. Depending on which night you arrive you may see a completely different take on the same exact show, but the meaning remains the same.
About Circus Automatic:
Circus Automatic brings disparate audiences together for a show that achieves both highly structured performance, and an immersive environment more akin to the experiential reality of clubs, carnivals, and city streets. We dream of a floating world; a temporary autonomous zone which the audience experiences as an imaginary reality. A reality which reflects the everyday in a way that illuminates the dark wood wandering of life.
"Serpentine Inka Siefker tucking her head neatly into the small of her own back as her legs arch over to shoot an arrow into a target with her toes is a feat without adjectives." SF Weekly
"It’s rare that a home grown circus manages to blend personality, technical wizardry, and just the right touch of San Francisco weirdness." The Bold Italic
“The most exciting and innovative circus in the Bay Area” SF Weekly
Featuring elite performers born from San Francisco’s world class circus community, veterans of the famed Seven Fingers circus troupe, and a Guinness World Record holder. The cast includes acclaimed storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee, integrating narrative with the circus talents of Fleeky Flanco, Brad Henderson, Inka Siefker, Colin Davis, Rachel Strickland, Olga Kosova, and Micah Walters. The production boasts a set design by Michael Murnane of the Cardboard Institute of Technology. Michael creates compelling, odd sculptures and character driven environments, often for film/storytelling projects including Coraline, ParaNorman, and the last Star Wars films.
Raised by Wolves is about the moments that define us. It is a collection of circus cabaret, storytelling and a kaleidoscope vision of the hopes that hold us captive and the challenges that set us free. In trailing the jumble of threads that are created from our choices we weave our identity. These same labyrinths become the keys to our advancement, and the locked doors that keep us from it. Featuring world renowned circus performers and award-winning storytellers in an ego-splicing of reality and dream-sequence, you are invited to watch a conversation between desire and fear, their inevitable tumble down the rabbit hole and the fight to reach the light at the other end.
Raised by Wolves is part storytelling part circus show. Storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee (nationally recognized slam poetry champions and acclaimed storytellers as seen on NPR’s Snap Judgement) accompany a modular collection of world class circus talent known for their boundary-breaking work. Each Storyteller illuminates a different facet of the shows main concept, the idea that the challenges in your life are what ultimately create you. Each circus performer lives this challenge in front of you on stage, creating a work that is alive and changing. Depending on which night you arrive you may see a completely different take on the same exact show, but the meaning remains the same.
About Circus Automatic:
Circus Automatic brings disparate audiences together for a show that achieves both highly structured performance, and an immersive environment more akin to the experiential reality of clubs, carnivals, and city streets. We dream of a floating world; a temporary autonomous zone which the audience experiences as an imaginary reality. A reality which reflects the everyday in a way that illuminates the dark wood wandering of life.
"Serpentine Inka Siefker tucking her head neatly into the small of her own back as her legs arch over to shoot an arrow into a target with her toes is a feat without adjectives." SF Weekly
"It’s rare that a home grown circus manages to blend personality, technical wizardry, and just the right touch of San Francisco weirdness." The Bold Italic
“The most exciting and innovative circus in the Bay Area” SF Weekly
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Raised by Wolves is about the moments that define us. It is a collection of circus cabaret, storytelling and a kaleidoscope vision of the hopes that hold us captive and the challenges that set us free. In trailing the jumble of threads that are created from our choices we weave our identity. These same labyrinths become the keys to our advancement, and the locked doors that keep us from it. Featuring world renowned circus performers and award-winning storytellers in an ego-splicing of reality and dream-sequence, you are invited to watch a conversation between desire and fear, their inevitable tumble down the rabbit hole and the fight to reach the light at the other end.
Raised by Wolves is part storytelling part circus show. Storytellers Jamie DeWolf and Joyce Lee (nationally recognized slam poetry champions and acclaimed storytellers as seen on NPR’s Snap Judgement) accompany a modular collection of world class circus talent known for their boundary-breaking work. Each Storyteller illuminates a different facet of the shows main concept, the idea that the challenges in your life are what ultimately create you. Each circus performer lives this challenge in front of you on stage, creating a work that is alive and changing. Depending on which night you arrive you may see a completely different take on the same exact show, but the meaning remains the same.
About Circus Automatic:
Circus Automatic brings disparate audiences together for a show that achieves both highly structured performance, and an immersive environment more akin to the experiential reality of clubs, carnivals, and city streets. We dream of a floating world; a temporary autonomous zone which the audience experiences as an imaginary reality. A reality which reflects the everyday in a way that illuminates the dark wood wandering of life.
"Serpentine Inka Siefker tucking her head neatly into the small of her own back as her legs arch over to shoot an arrow into a target with her toes is a feat without adjectives." SF Weekly
"It’s rare that a home grown circus manages to blend personality, technical wizardry, and just the right touch of San Francisco weirdness." The Bold Italic
“The most exciting and innovative circus in the Bay Area” SF Weekly
show less
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