In this article Katie Lavers and Jon Burtt investigate BLAKflip and Beyond, a programme of workshops set up by the Australian circus company Circus Oz to mentor and support young Aboriginal performers by providing training and pathways into professional circus. Their analysis is contextualized through an examination of the thirty-year history of Circus Oz, most significantly its roots in the progressive and radical politics of the 1970s. The history of notable and successful Aboriginal performers in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian circus is also examined, questioning why, given the relative success of Aboriginal circus performers in the recent past, there are almost none working today. Whiteness as a pervasive characteristic of contemporary Australian performance is offered as a possible cause of this absence, while hopes for the future of Aboriginal circus are discussed with Davey Thompson, the new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Programme Manager at Circus Oz. Katie Lavers is an adjunct faculty member at Edith Cowan University, author of numerous journal articles, and co-editor (with Peta Tait) of The Routledge Circus Studies Reader (2016). Jon Burtt is a lecturer in Dance and Performance Studies at Macquarie University. He is the author of numerous articles on circus pedagogy, and is an advanced-level circus trainer. Lavers and Burtt are currently co-authoring (with Louis Patrick Leroux) a book on contemporary circus (forthcoming 2019).

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BLAKflip 和超越：澳大利亚的土著表演者和当代马戏团

在这篇文章中，Katie Lavers 和 Jon Burtt 调查了 BLAKflip 和 Beyond，这是一个由澳大利亚马戏公司 Circus Oz 设立的研讨会计划，旨在通过提供培训和进入专业马戏团的途径来指导和支持年轻的土著表演者。他们的分析是通过对 Circus Oz 三十年历史的考察，最重要的是其根源于 1970 年代进步和激进的政治。还研究了 19 世纪和 20 世纪澳大利亚马戏团中著名和成功的原住民表演者的历史，质疑为什么考虑到原住民马戏团表演者在最近的相对成功，今天几乎没有人在工作。白人作为当代澳大利亚表演的普遍特征被认为是这种缺席的一个可能原因，同时与 Circus Oz 的新土著和托雷斯海峡岛项目经理 Davey Thompson 讨论了对土著马戏团未来的希望。Katie Lavers 是伊迪丝考文大学的兼职教员，众多期刊文章的作者，以及劳特利奇马戏研究阅读器（2016 年）。Jon Burtt 是麦考瑞大学舞蹈和表演研究的讲师。他着有多篇关于马戏教育学的文章，是一名高级马戏培训师。Lavers 和 Burtt 目前正在（与 Louis Patrick Leroux）合着一本关于当代马戏团的书（即将于 2019 年出版）。