ROOKE is a contemporary circus company, based in Northern lutruwita/Tasmania. We create cutting-edge circus work to engage, inspire, transport, and uplift local audiences.

In 2021, Tony Rooke pulled together four of the world’s most in-demand acrobats who, by chance, were in Tasmania, escaping COVID in Europe and Montreal, to create Tony’s Imaginary Circus for Junction Arts Festival. Before coming together, collectively they have performed with companies including Circa, Gravity and Other Myths, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, Circus Oz and The 7 Fingers.

Five years and seven full-length works later, ROOKE are a Tasmanian institution. Their works are engaging, fun, often virtuosic but never half-baked and have played to audiences in places in Tasmania that only locals know.

ROOKE’s focus is on storytelling, skill and sustainability. Underdogs who always deliver above expectation.

Black background with white line art of five acrobats performing different poses around the word 'ROOKE' in large white font.

Operating on stolen land in Launceston, on Kanamaluka/River Tamar, Lutruwita/Tasmania.

ROOKE acknowledges the Palawa people, original and traditional custodians of this island Lutruwita. We honour and pay respect to Tasmanian aboriginal elders past, present and emerging.