Presented by STRUT Dance, Perth Festival and Terrain / Boris Charmatz

An exciting choreographic emergence that builds day after day. A collective energy that radiates and carries away both participants and spectators. French choreographer Boris Charmatz invites 150 amateurs to a six-day workshop exploring circular movements of traditional and contemporary dance.

Together with a dozen professional dancers from Europe and Australia, Boris Charmatz transmits a collection of circle dances set within the expanse of Forrest Place. CERCLES explores the circle as a cocoon, as a raging crowd or a wall of bodies – agile, determined.

Propelled by a soundtrack by Meute, a Hamburg-based techno brass band who reinterpret electronic classics in a unique way, this communal movement experience extends our perception of what dance can be. A collective energy that radiates and carries away both participants and spectators.

For its first edition the project was realised at Festival d’Avignon 2024 and was then presented in Wuppertal the same year and at Grand Palais in Paris in July 2025. Now it comes to Perth, in an Australian Exclusive as part of the free Perth Moves program.

Both amateur and professional dancers can sign up below to be part of this project. Spectators can witness CERCLES as it unfolds night after night in Forrest Place.

Photos top – bottom: Quentin Chavrier, César Vayssié, Christophe Raynaud de Lage.