About Us
Based in Albury Wodonga on the New South Wales and Victorian border, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus is a not-for-profit company. We’re Australia’s only full time circus training institution for children.
For 30 years, we have played an important role in the development of contemporary circus in Australia. Today Fruit Fly graduates are working, teaching and performing in many new and emerging professional companies here and abroad. Other graduates are just as happily working in mainstream business due to the opportunities being connected to the circus created for them.
It has a three-fold purpose that makes it unique to Australia. It offers an elite full-time training program to school aged children from grades 3 to 12; it provides professional performance and touring opportunities; and the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development supports the circus by running a select entry school that only members of the circus can join.
Approximately 60 people are educated at the Flying Fruit Fly Circus School and a further 20 study at the Wodonga Senior Secondary College.
Our key feeder program is Circus Arts, a recreational program that runs in Albury each Saturday during terms 1 to 4. Find out more about this and other community based activities here.
The circus offers fees-based training and the school charges annual levies. A student fund, the Noel Tovey Scholarship, offers support to four students each year. Find out more about the Flying Fruit Fly Circus School.