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Tim Barsky (director)
is a playwright-performer and circus director with extensive ties to
the bay area hip-hop community. A graduate of Brown University with a
degree in medieval islamic & judaic studies, he was recently awarded
a $50,000 Gerbode Emerging Playwright's Grant for "Track in a Box",
a hip-hop and circus based play which premieres in fall 2008. Best known
for his underground-hit The Bright River, he is a co-founder of Vowel
Movement Beatboxers, an artist-in-residence at SF's Climate Theater, &
has lectured at Stanford, Oberlin, & The Royal College of Art, Lodon.
Find out more at www.timbarsky.com
Shannon Gaines (choreographer) began her career in Southern California
as a competitive artistic gymnast and later as a performance acrobat.
Hailed by the Associated Press as one of the preminent circus choreographers
in the Bay Area, she is co-founder and choreographer of the dance/circus
company Vau de Vire Society in San Francisco. She also works as a professional
dancer, stilter, roller skater, living statue, fire performer and clown.
Carlos Aguirre aka Infinite (beatboxer/composer) has been performing
as both an actor and hip hop artist in the Bay area for over 12 years.
He has shared the stage with artists like The Roots, Eryka Badu, Mary
J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas, and George Clinton to name a few. He is also
part of The Vowel Movement Beatboxers & Felonious Hip-Hop Crew.
Bobby “Finesse” Vicario (breakdancer) is a San Francisco
native and active member of the Bay Area’s own Renegade Rockers.
As a member of the Break Beat Assassins Finesse has performed globally,
acquiring a championship at Battle Kings in 2002, and Euro Pro Am 2003.
Considered by many to have been one of the dancers who have defined west
coast b-boying, Finesse is currently performing and teaching throughout
the Bay..
Shawn Hallman , aka Iron Monkey (breakdancer), has been b-boying for eleven
years. An internationally known and sought-after artist, he has won individual
and crew competitions at the international level, & toured with hip
hop legends including Kurtis Blow and KRS-1. His work has taken him across
the US, Europe, Asia & Australia, and has seen him hailed by dance
historians as a master performer & innovator in the field of hip-hop
dance
Brett Womack (aerialist) is an award winning aerial performance artist
from San Francisco who has literally redefined the entire field in which
he performs. It is not an ovestatement to call him the best aerial artist
of his generation. His recent achievements include the Judges Award and
the Audience Award for Best Aerial Act at the 4th Annual American Circus
Festival. He has performed internationally for such professional companies
as the Pickle Family Circus, Circo Zero, and the Vau de Vire Society.
Rami Margron (actor/dancer/clown) - As an actor & hip-hop theatre
artist Rami has appeared with local companies such as California Shakespeare
Theatre, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Word for Word, Crowded Fire, Shotgun
Players, Woman's Will and the Willows Theater. As a dancer, she is a former
member of Reconnect, an African Diaspora dance-theater company and Group
Petit La Croix, Blanche Brown's Haitian dance company. Outside the U.S.,
she has studied dance in Haiti, Cuba and Indonesia and clowning and buffoon
in Paris.
Breonna Noack (contortionist) has become know at 25 for her groundbreaking
work with hip-hop, punk, & electro artists including Peaches, Angelo
Moore (of Fishbone), & 50Cent. As an apprentice with Mongolian contortionist
Serchmaa Byambaa, Bre trains in a grueling schedule that invloves practicing
up to 8 hours a day. As a lead performer with Vau de Vire Society, she
also works in the cross-disciplines of aerial tissue, aerial contortion,
performance acrobatics, and parkour stilting.
Nico Torres-Labarca
is 17 years old and
is currently a senior at Berkeley High School. He has been doing contortion
for three years, has been in city circus for 1 1/2 and most recently discovered
a circus apparatus called the Cyr Wheel (a giant metal wheel that you
spin in) which he has been training on for the past four months. Nico
is also currently recovering from a major back injury. He plans to attend
the L'Ecole Nationale De Cirque in Montreal, Canada fall of 2009 in the
hopes of creating an innovative act combining both the Cyr Wheel and contortion.
Sylphie Currin started out as a dancer when she 4 with
Moscelyne Larkin, the founder of the Tulsa Ballet, and a principal dancer
in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She began practicing circus arts when
she was ten. Since then she has trained with Master Lu Yi, in Chinese
acrobatics, Elena Panova, in aerial hoop, Serchmaa Byambaa, in Mongolian
contortion, and, Aloysia Gavre, in aerial hoop. In 2006, she was invited
as one of the first four aerialists in Elena Panova's Professional Aerial
Program. She has performed with Circus Chimera, Circus Smirkus, San Francisco
Circus, CirCole Productions, and many other corporate gigs around the
bay area.
Olivia Weinstein is 16 years old and is in the 10th grade at School
of the Arts Academy in San Francisco. She has been training at AcroSports
for 13 years and joined City Circus in the fall of 2004. Being on stage
makes Olivia feel both relaxed and ecstatic. She plans to work hard
in order to achieve her dream of training at L'ecole Nationale De Cirque
in Montreal and perform with Cirque Du Soleil. In the meantime she'll
continue to make people laugh and dance like there is no tomorrow.Lizzy Sheets is 18 years old and is currently attending City College.
She has been at Acrosports for 11 years and was in the last City Circus
show. Lizzy is an aerialist and also teaches tumbling and clowning to
school ages children and preschoolers at AcroSports.
Melanie Minor is 15 years old and is a senior at Gunn High School in
Palo Alto. She has been doing gymnastics since she was 3 and has been
in City Circus for 1½ years. Her specialties have included aerial
tissue, contortion, tumbling, and now umbrella. She hopes to continue
with her circus career until she is too broken to do so. |
