NYE 2010 with Circus Marcel, Belgium

I was invited to perform ‘Atma’ as part of the NYE show organized by the Vanderborght family and Circus Marcel in Rumes, Belgium.

We worked together to create a show that combined exciting and mesmerising contemporary circus with some funny and poetic moments of traditional circus.

‘Atma’ was chosen as the final act of the show, which was very flattering, since the great talent of all the other artists.

All the people involved helped to create an incredible atmosphere that showed how passionate we all are about what we do. A million thanks to the very talented Amaury Vanderborght and his family and all the other friends and artists who made this happen.

More lovely photographs of the whole event are on my Flickr page.

International Circus Festival at the Dusseldorf Airport

In December 2010, I was selected to take part in the 2nd International Circus Festival at the Düsseldorf Airport. The talented performers came from all over the world to share a very unusual and exciting day at the German airport.

The whole departure hall in the terminal was used as the performing area, which provided an extraordinary and impressive backdrop as well as free entertainment for the transient audience.

We performed in front of a top-class jury of circus experts, including the Director of GOP Varieté Essen, who awarded prize money, engagements by GOP Varieté Essen and by Et Cetera Varieté Bochum as well as prizes in kind from Jack Wolfskin. Although we were measuring ourselves in a competition, the atmosphere was very friendly and all the artists were very supportive of each other.

Photos were taken by Andreas Wiese and you can find more on my Flickr.

Zombie with hula hoops

‘Italian acrobat Miss Peacock, turned her hula hoops into pure light with a jaw-dropping zombie routine to the tune of Thriller.’  C.J. Lazaretti

This past Halloween I devised a zombie hula hoop act to ‘The Thriller’, that I performed at Proud cabaret, London, as part of The Tassel Club.

Commonwealth Games 2010

In October 2010 I had the pleasure to work with Feeding the Fish to perform a pixel poi choreography at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, Delhi, India. We joined performers from all over the world to create a mesmerising laser show that was also the Gran Finale of the event.

We worked very hard, days and nights, to rehearse for the show, but the reaction of the 80,000 people in the stadium was an incredibly satisfying reward, as well as a great memory that will never die.

 

You can find more photos of this amazing event on my Flickr.

Coronation Street 50th anniversary party

In September 2010 I joined Hoop La La on a trip to Manchester.  We attended the Coronation Street 50th anniversary party, where we performed a custom made act to celebrate the programs heritage, and taught some cast members to hula-hoop.  It was a very fun day spent hula hooping and peeping into the courtyards of the set.

Photos were taken by Jessie Walters and you can see more on my Flickr.

Cadbury’s Spots V Stripes

In September 2010 I performed a duo act with Hoop LaLa for the Cadbury’s ‘Spots V. Stripes’ campaign in Birmingham. The squares of the city centre were painted purple, with plenty of fun games and funny characters all around. While warming up backstage, I could not resist trying on this fluffy costume and turning into a hula hoop monkey.

‘Atma’ photoshoot

This photoshoot was done by Bertil Nilsson at the Circus Space, London, straight after the presentation of our solo pieces in May 2010. It was very interesting to work with Bertil as he encouraged movement rather than posing, which made the shoot a lot more dynamic and fun.

More photos from this shoot are on my Flickr.