Interview
Caytha Jentis: Fun Never Gets Old
Caytha Jentis is a New York writer, filmmaker and producer who started aerial hoop in her early sixties. She wrote the circus stage play ...
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The Interview Series
Written conversations with circus artists about the real version of the job. The rejections, the injuries, the 4am flights, and how each of them built a life they love.
Fourteen of them, in one free book
Interview
Marianna De Sanctis: I Exist Without My Hoop
Marianna De Sanctis is an Italian hula hoop artist, clown and dramaturg, and the creator of the solo show Mother.Woman.Artist. I first me...
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Aoife Raleigh: You Don't Know Your Own Strength
Aoife Raleigh is a hula hooper, foot juggler and one half of StrongWomen Science, and she co-founded Circilár with her husband Tony Mahon.
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Aino Emilia: Fire, Softness and Choosing Peace
Aino Emilia is a circus artist, aerial and pole instructor, island witch, fire-hearted performer and firm believer in magic. I met Aino m...
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Finding Our Worth Beyond the Applause: A Conversation with Emma Poole
Introduction Some people leave a lasting impression, not because of what they do, but because of how they make you think. Years ago, whil...
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Jessie Rose: A Life Full of ideas
INTRODUCTION I first remember coming across Jessie in my early days of discovering circus. We are a very similar age, and at the time I...
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Erin Ball on Reimagining Circus and Finding New Ways In
INTRODUCTION I’ll be honest, I came into this interview thinking I understood this subject more than I actually did. I first came across ...
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Masha Terentieva on Hotel Carts and Hula Hoops
Masha Terentieva is a circus artist, aerial hoop performer, hula hoop artist, director and concept creator whose work blends circus, thea...
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Episode 10
Marawa the Amazing: High Heels, Hula Hoops & Piñatas
In Episode 10 of Bubble Bum Banter, Jess shares a heartfelt conversation with the incredible Marawa the Amazing on creativity, community,...
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Episode 9
Emma Phillips: The Unexpected Art of Foot Juggling
A dancer at heart and a circus artist by destiny, Emma Phillips shares how an unexpected path took her from New Zealand to China, and int...
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Episode 8
Ria Murphy: Building Aerial Cirque
How did a scientist become one of Ireland’s leading circus pioneers? Ria Murphy shares the story behind Aerial Cirque and her journey int...
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Episode 7
Jenny Tufts | Home, Heart, and the Spiral
In this conversation, Jenny Tufts shares her story of carving her own path through circus, from her early days in Vermont to building a l...
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