Join us this Fall 2014 for a series of Rope Videos starring Rebekah Leach and Rain Anya of Paper Doll Militia. We are currently working on compiling moves for a Rope Manual Series. Volume 1 is anticipated to be released by the end of Winter 2015. Videos will be released as they completed (edited and all, etc).
To kick off our journey of the Corde Lisse, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the rope rockstars who inspired my own journey through rope. In no particular order, they are: Continue reading “Fall in Love with Rope”
Ilona Jäntti studied circus at Circus Piloterna in Stockholm and contemporary dance at Laban Centre in London obtaining a master’s degree in choreography. Ilona has collaborated with a diverse range of circus, dance and theatre companies and venues including Shakespeare’s Globe, Royal Opera House, The Place and Darwin Centre at National History Museum in the UK, Circo Aereo and Flow Productions in Finland and Cirkus Cirkör in Sweden. She has been a resident artist at V&A Museum of Childhood since 2010. Ilona has been awarded a three-year Artist Grant by the Finnish Government, starting in 2012. We were lucky enough to snag an interview with her between shows at the 2014 Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. Special thanks to Circus Building for hosting the Meet & Greet event. Continue reading “Interview with Ilona Jäntti: Creator of a One Woman Show”
Rigging Accident in Ringling Bros. Show
As you have probably already heard, 8 “hairialists” fell in a Ringling Bros. Rhode Island show over this past weekend. We are all shocked and send our prayers to the performers and families. We are grateful that every performer is alive and on the road to healing. As you can imagine, everyone in the aerial industry is curious how this rigging accident happened so that we can all question our own rigging and make sure that we are holding ourselves to the highest standards of safety. A Ringling Bros representative has announced that it was a carabiner that broke. The OSHA report will hopefully explain how and why the carabiner broke so we can all learn from the incident. Continue reading “Rigging Accident in Ringling Bros. Show”
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