Kane Petersen
Kane Petersen is a circus artist, director, producer, and teacher. He is best known as a highwire stunt artist, rigger, and physical comedian. He is one half of the tightwire company “Wired Stunts” with his partner Jessica McCrindle.
In 2015 Kane walked 300meters above Melbourne on a 16mm wire between two points of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower, breaking the world record for the highest Tightrope walk in the Southern Hemisphere as part of Sony Pictures media spectacle promoting the film ‘The Walk” – the story of French wire walker Philippe Petit.
Kane was regularly seen performing across the country for charity circus “Circus Quirkus” and touring with many other renowned companies nationally and internationally from ‘Terrapin Puppet Theatre’ though to ‘The Dirty Brothers Sideshow’, before a serious non-circus related accident in 2017 required him to re-learn how to walk. After years of treatment and surgeries Kane re-gained his passion for circus through teaching and training others.
Kane holds a Masters of Teaching (Deakin University), and is a graduate of Theatre and Media Studies (Charles Sturt University), the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), and Ecole Phillipe Gaulier (Paris, France). Kane has taught at circus schools across Australia and in Europe; run master classes in clown, performance, and tightwire; directed and toured acclaimed circus work; and produced a range of events including a few festivals. Kane regularly consults in the Australian circus sector, as well as in events, entertainment rigging, and in tightwire training, construction, and design.