Sky Candy Shows

Sky Candy shows are a big part of our overall company mission of “circus is for every body”.

In all of our performances, you’ll find our stage filled with diverse bodies ranging in size, age, ability, gender expression, racial background, and lived experiences. We are proud to offer a safety-minded, inclusive artistic outlet for folks from many backgrounds to share the same stage and tell their stories through aerial and circus arts. With shows and showcase themes ranging from the deeply profound to the deeply silly (and sometimes things that combine the two), we welcome audiences to run away and join us in this adventure!

Upcoming Shows

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  • Our Flag Means Pride

    Thursday, July 3, 2025

    For our 2025 Pride Student Showcase, we’re combining two of our favorite things: pirates and queer joy! We encourage students to take take inspiration from the show's characters and themes, pirates, mermaids, sea monsters, tender queer love stories, and their own queer identities as a starting point for creating new acts.

    Submit Your Act

  • Dungeons & Drag Show

    Saturday, July 5, 2025

    We’re getting out our D20s and glueing down our brows to bring you some drag high fantasy realness. Watch as our PCs make their way through a world high elf venue owners, orc bouncers, bard-tenders, a three-headed fascist bureaucrat trying to shut them down, and more on their way to producing a drag show!

    Auditon Form Opens April 10

  • Legend of the Realms

    Last Friday of Every Month (March - October)

    Legend of the Realms is not just a performance competition; it’s a battle cry for creators, dreamers, and revolutionaries to rise, unite, and reclaim the power of their voices. This is where fantasy meets defiance, performance becomes protest, and art fuels liberation.

    Brought to life by: Amazing Aeffects in collaboration with Sky Candy, Illumine Wellness, Shea Butter Babies Productions, LOVE Tai Enterprises, and BOOM Immersive.

    Join the Revolution

  • Legislate This: 202wtf

    Saturday, April 19, 2025

    It's 2025 and politicians are working harder than ever to deny Americans basic human rights and access to healthcare. While it may feel hopeless, we are the majority and we can fight back!

    Legislate This is a benefit show featuring burlesque, aerial, and drag performers putting our money where our mouth is! All cast, crew, and the venue are donating their time, talents, and space so that 100% of profits from this show can be donated directly to Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.

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2024/25 Season

  • Twilight, February 15, 2025 - While the Twilight saga is canonically heterosexual story, it has been embraced by the LGBTQIA+ community (in part thanks to out and proud lead, Kristen Stewart) as a “gay allegory”. We’re excited to be part of this story’s queer renaissance and reimagining, bringing sparkly vampires, critiques of late-stage capitalism, and overcoming repression and oppression to the air - a perfect show for Valentine’s Day!

  • Dungeons & Drag Show, July 5, 2025 - Join our Game Master/host as they lead our performers through a world of magic, mythical beasts, and an ever-evolving, partially scripted, partially improvised aerial and circus show that can go almost anywhere depending on the luck of the D20.

  • Jurrasic Parque, October 18, 2025 - In the grand tradition of doing un-hinged aerial adaptations of pop culture icons, we are excited to bring you our dramatic, high flying, high brow take on the 90s classic Jurrasic Park, in the style of a Cirque du Soleil show. Yes, we also have no idea what we’re doing and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Student Showcases

  • Your Favorite Sin: Angst, February 14, 2025 - Everyone’s favorite 18+ student showcase returns just in time for Valentine’s Day to celebrate our favorite sin of the season - angst. Set to a soundtrack of emo, pop-punk, and indie grunge, our students will get into their feels and leave it all on the stage for you!

  • Our Flag Means Pride, July 3, 2025 - A play off of the name of a wildly popular modern show, Our Flag Means Death, our pride month showcase encourages students to take take inspiration from pirates, tender queer love stories, and their own queer identities as a starting point for creating new acts.

  • Creature Feature, October 17, 2025 - From horror movie villains to mythological beasts to modern cryptids, we invite our students to create works with silly and serious takes on what it means to be a monster.

Sky Candy’s 2024/25 season is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.