Morgan holds a BA in Drama from Queen’s University and an MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University. She is now a PhD candidate at York University and is writing her dissertation on the relationship between hobbyist jugglers and their props. She co-founded the Limestone City Juggling Festival in Kingston, ON in 2014 and helped organize the festival for 6 consecutive years. Find more of her work at youtube.com/morganeua.
Alise is a Latvian dancer/choreographer. She works very closely with the details and nuanced movement in her creations, focusing on performance presence, movement quality, and concept. She graduated from The Latvian Academy of Culture in 2018, with a BA in The Art of Contemporary Dance. She worked as a part of an Estonian experimental performance collective called “The Biofilm Sisters” and is currently working with Estonian contemporary circus company “Big Wolf Company”.
Jason is a circus director living between The UK & Latvia. His studies include a BA at the National Centre For Circus Arts and an MA in Contemporary Circus Practices in Stockholm University Of The Arts. He is artistic director of an experimental site specific circus company Living Room Circus, is co-founder of The Working Boys Club, a transdisciplinary company of creative makers, engaging and making work for the under-served working class of the UK, as well as co-founder of a digital collective Formerly Known As, which aims to make our digital experiences more human.
Lina is a producer, programmer/curator and arts consultant from Sweden, with offices in Lund/Malmö, SE and Bristol, UK. Lina works mostly with Contemporary Circus, Cross-disciplinary Arts and Live Art – with bold and brave people, explorers and visionaries at heart. Lina is interested in how art can be used to facilitate democratic participation to challenge the status quo. linabfrank.wordpress.com
Jordana is an academic, teaching literature and academic writing at York University and the University of Toronto, and a semi-professional circus artist, performing on static trapeze and corde lisse in Toronto and the surrounding area. Their recent research includes a book, Querying Consent (Rutgers UP, 2018), and publications on representations of HIV/AIDS and on sadomasochism, including an article on pain and pleasure at the intersection of aerial arts, play, and sadomasochism. Their current research includes an ongoing project on gender, sexuality, and circus arts. Their recent circus practice includes a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant-funded group aerial performance “Lifting Belly,” comprised entirely of queer and trans artists, devised in conversation with and backed by remixed excerpts from Gertrude Stein’s experimental Modernism poem of the same title. @marionaether
Madeline is an artist and academic who creates with, through, and about circus. She is an Adjunct Professor of Aerial Arts and American Circus History at Pace University (NYC), a Writer for CircusTalk, and Curator and Director of Cirkus Moxie, a new weekly contemporary circus show in Brooklyn NY! Madeline co-authored “Teaching the Mind-Body: Integrating Knowledges through Circus Arts” with Alisan Funk and Dan Berkley for the recently published book Art as an Agent for Social Change. Madeline earned an MA from Gallatin (NYU), where she designed a Circus Studies curriculum focused on spectatorship. She is currently refurbishing her thesis into a full-length book and eyeing circus dramaturgy opportunities. madelinehoak.com
Curious. Funny sometimes. Fun most times. Cerebral. Nerdalicious. Pretentious. Humble. Sexy. Modest. Organised. Disciplined. Empathetic. Quiet. Innovative. Sensitive. Artsy. Adventurous. Protective. Creative. A shoulder to cry on. Motivator. Catalyst. Designer. Future Thinker. Author. Techie. Poet. Yogini. Aerialist. Contortionist. Teacher. Motorcyclist. Speaker at Struktur, TechCircus and NEW Horizons Leadership Summit. Wannabe gardener. Well travelled. Secret clown. Puffin lover. Petite. Curvalicious. Educated. American. Woman. Black. Indigenous. Californian. Unicorn.
Tomáš is a circus artist always eager to talk about what else circus can be, looking for it in our everyday lives. His shows OVVIO & QOROQ do exactly that, doing circus without the need for circus equipment. He also happens to be a fanatic for all things sound, his project Audio-Crumbs attempts to create circus in the form of MP3. The show is also by far the easiest one to tour with, given that it can all be sent in an email attachment! @lapsocirk
Nick is a circus artist and writer based in Minneapolis and New York City. Having studied aerial rope at l’École de cirque de Québec, Nick has created and performed internationally and has taught circus disciplines in a variety of recreational studios and socially-engaged arts education projects. Most recently, Nick developed curriculum for Circus Performance at the University of Minnesota. Nick is a current Master’s candidate at NYU where he focuses on arts in and as public policy.
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