CHOREOGRAPHER | AERIAL STRAPS | LADY IN RED

A recipient of the Gerbode Foundation’s 2021 Choreography Award, Veronica is a professional aerialist with 20 years of performing and teaching experience. She is currently Aerial Director for Celebrity Cruises Productions. Her experience as a show director and choreographer emerged out of her extensive experience as a performer. She is a choreographer who has shown, in the words of Zaccho Dance Theatre’s Founder, Joanna Haigood, “tremendous potential as an artist.” Veronica is a technical virtuoso who uses social themes and storytelling to craft contemporary aerial performances centering around the Black experience in America. The dramatic results yield a new kind of expression that transcends the spectacle of entertainment. Digitally, Veronica has produced three circus films including “THE CROWN”, “ON THE FENCE”, and “GORGEOUS ''.

ACROBATIC DESIGNER | COACH

Chloé Farah is a multi-talented circus coach specializing in acrobatic and aerial techniques. Her creations have won several international awards at the Festival International du Cirque de Demain. She has been the aerial and acrobatic designer for several Cirque du Soleil productions, including their newest production with Walt Disney World, “Drawn to Life '', which opened in 2021.

AERIAL CHAINS | LADY IN BLUE

Summer’s journey to the stage began with a childhood love of gymnastics and a discovery of aerial arts and dance in college. In 2012 she dazzled millions of television viewers when she reached the top 100 on “America’s Got Talent.” Host Howie Mandel described her act as “both dangerous and very original”. Summer embodies each performance with an expression of joyful intensity, with specialties including Aerial Chains, Aerial Hoop, Silks, and Dance Trapeze. She has been seen in flight at The Economist Magazine’s World in 2013 Gala, the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards, and appeared in the off-Broadway show “La Soiree”. In 2018 she was a featured performer in the Circus Abyssinia show ”Ethiopian Dreams” during their residency at the New Victory Theater. She is a member of the Dzul Dance Company, Constellation Moving Company, Loki Circus Theater and is one-third of “la cage trio”, a one-of-a-kind aerial cage troupe.

CHINESE POLE | MAN IN PURPLE

Toni Cannon is a Black transgender man who specializes in traditional Chinese Acrobatics. Toni is a company member of San Franciscos’s Circus Bella and the Ground-breaking Topsy Turvy Queer Circus.

MANIPULATION | LADY IN GREEN

Copper Santiago has been doing circus for 15 years, over half her life. A generalist from NYC, she moves and makes from her inherited hunger as well as her desire to be a good ancestor. She loves cultivating and being present in diverse spaces. Curly red hair and great friends are her super powers.

CYR WHEEL | MANIPULATION | LADY IN YELLOW

Susan Voyticky, a native Brooklynite, traveled far and wide to study at both Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and The Circus Space in London. She has worked for the past two decades for a variety of companies; including performing with Keith Hennessy’s Circo Zero and the New Pickle Circus in San Francisco, touring the U.S. with the Universoul Circus, a year in Japan at Universal Studios and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Circus Abyssinia in New York. For the past decade, Susan was also at the Circus Warehouse in NYC inspiring and training the next generation of circus artists. Hoping to take her artistic endeavors to the next level, Susan founded Loki Circus Theater with Michelle Arvin to create innovative movement theater productions using a mixture of circus, physical theater, and dance. Through Loki, Susan has created work for SummerStage (2014), Circus Warehouse, (2015), and the Rubin Museum (2018).

AERIAL DRUM | LADY IN ORANGE

Darielle’s passion for movement germinated when she was a little girl in Trinidad and Tobago where she was born and raised. She danced with Guggenheim recipient Brazz Dance Theater, Binti Ensemble, AfroConTempo Dance Company and Animate Objects Physical Theater, where she was introduced to circus arts. Darielle has performed aerial for Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull for the opening of Premios Juventud 2013; stilts for Don Omar at the Latin Grammy's 2012 as well as Chino Y Nacho at Premios Juventud 2014; and fire on segways for Romeo Santos for Premios Juventud 2012. In 2014, she performed in the water show Le Rêve - the Dream in Las Vegas and went on to be a featured aerialist in Beyonce’s Formation Tour 2016. Now based in Los Angeles, Darielle continues to cultivate her craft in shows like Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”.