The Freestyle Orchestra is an interdisciplinary collective of classically-trained musicians with parallel skills in contemporary circus/movement arts, collaboratively authoring integrated performance experiences. They enjoy disrupting perceptions of what both instrumental music and circus performance looks like and how it is presented, displacing artforms from their usual habitats, re-examining the role of an orchestra in society and exploring the interplay and intersectionalities between the physical and musical artist.

Equally at home in a concert hall or a street show, international performance highlights include: Venice Biennale, Les Jardins Musicaux Switzerland, ‘Concertos on Fire’ (Vivid Sydney), ‘Orchestra am Berg’ (concert at 1900m in the Austrian Alps). Recent initiatives and collaborations include The Looking Glass Cabaret performances in shop windows during Covid-19, The Secret Garden outdoor interdisciplinary arts festival raising funds for The Sebastian Foundation programs against youth suicide and Vien.noir interdisciplinary cabaret.

In 2023 they were commissioned to create the opening of the Wiener Festwochen at Rathausplatz Vienna (live on ORF), performed at Schloss Grafenegg, were featured on ORF Heute’s ‘Musiksommer’ Artist Portraits and were one of 3 projects selected for mentorship by MICC-Utopians. 2024 performances included Graz Schauspielhaus, Kultursommer Vienna, Krapoldi Festival Innsbruck, a residency at CIRKLABO and pitch presentations at Classical:Next Berlin, UP Circus Festival Brussels and the Montreal International Market of Contemporary Circus (MICC).

In 2025 they undertook a residency at Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh as well as showcase performances at City of Wings Ypres for their forthcoming production ‘Tale of the Firebird’ (collaboration with composer Chloé Charody), which was also selected for pitch presentations at MICC and Sibiu International Performing Arts Market (SIPAM) in 2025 and APAP New York 2026. The project showcased at Milch X Honig Festival for Interdisciplinary performance in October 2025, ahead of a February 2026 residency at Grazer Akrosphäre in collaboration with Winterfest, before a planned premiere season at Edinburgh Fringe 2026.

Their behind-the-scenes documentary for Fable Arts 2022 was selected for the 2023 Circus International Film Festival and documentation of The Freestyle Orchestra’s work has been featured at international conferences focused on the intersections between scholarship and the arts including the Society of Artistic Research (SAR), the ELIA Biennial in Helsinki Finland, as well as published in hypermedia format in The Research Catalogue.