Aerialist Profiles

Here’s are profiles for some of the fantastic aerialists that will be performing to the music the DJs are playing, this Saturday (Oct 3rd) at SoS:

Andrea Knox

Andrea is an aerial dancer specialising in aerial fabric, cloudswing, trapeze, and stilt-dance. Much of her recent work has been in collaboration with Empress Stiltdance, and has included gigs around New Zealand and Asia.

When she’s not performing, Andrea is either building her house, or conducting social research through her company Counterbalance.

Polly Schaverien

Polly is passionate about performing aerial silk … in fact she is a self-confessed silk ‘addict’. Polly has performed at a range of events, both inside and out over the last 3 years. Highlights include a solo silk act at the Vector Wellington Orchestra’s Circus Proms, being an aerial ‘bug’ at Sky City’s New Year celebrations and performing at the Perilous Circus Festival in Civic Square. Her most unusual venue to date was above a swimming pool for the Waitangi Day Festival of the Elements in Porirua. Polly trained in aerial silk through the fabulous Wellington Circus Trust (why not give it a try yourself?).

Aaron Burr

Aaron has been climbing and hanging from things since forever, now he does it to entertain others.

Pipi Ayesha

Pipi-Ayesha Evans is a circus and physical theatre performer. She performs a range of circus aerials (hoop, trapeze, rope, fabric), as well as stilts and theatre.