The year of our lord 2025 has really been a doozy. I’ve been feeling like a corpse lately, and I wanted to figure out: is it post lockdown blues? Turning 35? Have I finally gotten out of the trauma response…
The words “hypermobile” and “Ehlers Danlos Syndrome” definitely make their way around the pole and aerial communities. Athletic arts like pole, aerial, and gymnastics often attract folks whose bodies allow greater degrees of freedom—but that doesn’t always mean those bodies…
Y’all. I am the worst at being femme. I have little patience for discomfort these days so most often you’ll find me in 100% cotton loose fitting clothing, braless and shoeless. I have aspirations of doing aerial performance gig work,…
Get Your Booty to the Poll (GYBTTP) was a 2020 campaign that used pole dance to encourage Black men in Atlanta who are part of the club culture to get out and vote in 2020. At the time, the ad…
The past 12 weeks, I’ve had the honor of being part of my studio’s second ever Student Performance Troupe. The Student Performance Troupe is a group of six students, led by one of our circus-school-graduate instructors, who spend 12 weeks…
Overtraining is defined as: “when the body is subjected to excessive physical stress without adequate time for recovery.” Put simply, training is a stressor to your body (even if it’s fun) and your body needs time to recover. Too much…
Circus Pagan is the intersection of neo-Pagan and circus arts. Why am I doing this? Over the years, as I have described the feeling I get when practicing my art, people repeatedly tell me it sounds like a zen experience.…
Maybe you read my other blog post that was a play-by-play (with emotions!) about my very first audition experience. Well, the selection committee got back to me very expeditiously to tell me they decided to go in a different direction.…
Tonight, I had my very first audition for a performing arts company. I have some thoughts and feelings about this and instead of keeping it locked away in my Artist Pages journal, I decided on the ride home to share…
The Rut As artists and performers, sometimes we can feel really stuck and creatively burned out. I know I've been there before, especially when I was working long hours at a job I didn't enjoy with a lot of people…