Got a new idea?
Are you ready to share it?
Vulcana’s Elevate Incubator program is an opportunity for artists to develop new performance work with time, space, mentorship and guidance.
In 2026, Mayu Muto (Hot Brown Honey, Polytoxic, Casus) will be guiding ten select artists/ensembles across nine weekly sessions to develop a whole cabaret of new works.
After nine weeks of development, artists will showcase their work at Elevate Cabaret on June 27 2026, with ticket sales going towards a profit-share model for all artists on the line-up.
Elevate Incubator is open to emerging and professional artists. But, spaces are limited.
Got an idea? Submit your EOI today.
Previous Work as featured on our poster:
THE GROTTO – Alistair Lette
This act is titled The Grotto and was developed in the 2025 Agitate Arts Incubator. An unfinished experiment, trapped within the confines of an exhibition. Unable to discern between reality and the imagination. Morbid, brutal and raw but strangely beautiful.
This act was crafted to question the traditional performance style of slings through the use of typically ‘feminine’ technique and skills that are often undervalued. Intertwined with the concepts of grotesque femininity, and how feminine bodies are labelled as monstrous when they fall outside social constraints, my act follows an unfinished experiment, confined to be an exhibit for other individuals pleasure, as it reclaimed agency through unsettling and abnormal bodily movements. When creating this act, I challenged myself to avoid using my hands, favouring contrasting and atypically used parts of the body. My hands symbolise the traditionally ‘masculine’ straps discipline, thus the captivity of the experiment, and how these self introduced restrictions prevent the growth and evolution of the apparatus, while internalising gender inequality within the circus industry.
Previously I had felt confined to this idea that the acts I created needed to be short and digestible with a focus on entertainment that didn’t follow a meaning. With the incubator I was able to explore the ideas I had surrounding set and lighting design as well as researching the significance of meaning behind a performance and how viewers can interact with the artist/audience relationships. Through the incredible guidance of Mayu and Celia, I was able to experiment with concepts that had previously been used to limit myself and receive the crucial training from other established artists who were able to support myself and provide a wonderful learning opportunity that was not previously accessible.”
Photo by Jade Ellis
