Zilla & Brook has been proudly working with NICA since 2022. Their most recent performance, PROTEUS, was held in June at NICA National Circus Centre in Prahran. PROTEUS was an ensemble show presented by the third-year students, co-directed by international artists Sage Bachtler Cushman (2010 NICA alumna) and Hugo Oliveira.

Proteus as described by NICA: "With a postmodern deconstructionist point of departure, a peculiar world sets in. Voyaging through the city's architectural spaces, micro and macro spaces unfold into an expanse of connective pathways, seclusive rooms and celebratory lairs. Audiences were offered microcosmic glimpses into an engrossing civilization inhabited by a collection of modern oddballs. Within these intimate settings, Proteus builds momentum while meandering through life circumstances. The fragmentation of shapes and reconfiguration of form transpires through set, costume and design, rendered through circus, movement and theatre. In this dimension, mutable and ever-changing forces drive perpetual transformation."