The Candy Butchers
The Candy Butchers' A Circus Sweetmeat Performers: DJ Garner, Derek Ives, Jess Love & Azaria Universe Photo: K.T Prescott
In 2004, contemporary circus luminaries Derek Ives and Azaria Universe joined forces with Jess Love and DJ Garner to create The Candy Butchers; proud purveyors of elegant stunts, dirty acrobatics and dark clowning.
Taking their audience on a darkly humorous voyage into a neo-vaudevillian world of an imaginary sideshow era, they combine high level circus with pathos, drama and tragedy, they create a vision that is at once delicately touching, visually enchanting and physically impressive.
The Candy Butchers are a featured company at 2008's Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference (APAP).