Castellers de Sydney

Castellers de Sydney is a human tower organisation based on Sydney, Australia. Human towers is a Catalan tradition that started in the South of Catalonia 300 years ago.

Castellers de Sydney
Alias	Kangaroos
Foundation	2016
Shirt color	Yellow (Gold)
Location	Sydney, Australia
Best towers	4of6, 4of6 with a pillar, 3of6, pillar of 4
Best performance	4of6, 4of6 with a pillar, 3of6, pillar of 4
Official website	http://sydneyhumantowers.com

Traditionally there were teams only in Catalonia but recently other formations have been founded in other locations such as London, Chile, China, Paris, Melbourne, Sydney and others.

Even though Castellers of Sydney have many Catalan members it also have members from different nationalities such as American, French, German, Australian among others.

History

Sydney human towers started their activity on 24 June 2016, doing for the first time in Sydney a pillar of 3, that consist in 3 levels one person on top of another. This was the first time the team performed in public, keeping thus this date as their anniversary.[1]

After this first public event they started rehearsing periodically every Thursday at 6pm at Hyde Park, gathering the attention of the Australian public and giving them the opportunity to know about the Catalan tradition and even experience it first hand by participating in the building of the human tower.

The team has been improving periodically completing the 3of5, 4of5, pillar of 4 and 4of5 with a needle (a pillar inside the structure of 4) and 2of5 in this order, certifying not only a growth in members but also a technical growth completing more difficult towers every time.

In their first anniversary the team tried for the very first time a 4of6, that was unloaded just before the "anxaneta", the kid at the top reached the top.

Finally, on 10 September and celebrating the Catalan National Day in an event organised by "Casal Català de NSW" (Catalan Association of New South Wales) they completed the first towers of 6 levels in Oceania, making this the one the most remote tower in Human Towers history.[2][3][4]

In another performance on 17 February (and also organised by the Catalan Association of New South Wales) they completed the first full performance in Oceania with the collaboration of the Melbourne team, Koalas of Melbourne. A human towers full performance implies at least 3 towers of 6 or more and a pillar of 4. They completed it by completing a 3of6, 4of6 and 4of6 with the pillar. This is, until the date, the best performance ever done in Oceania.[5]

References

1. "A les antípodes". El Punt Avui. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
2. "Hitting the heights of new popularity". Wentworth Courier: 32. 13 September 2017. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017.
3. "Sydney veu el primer castell alçat als antípodes del bressol casteller". ara.cat. Ara. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
4. "Sydney's own human tower". Retrieved 25 September 2017.
5. "A Australia fant salts endavant". Revista castells. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.