Wednesday 31 July 2013

A few video stills from my new showreel coming soon...





Pictures are video stills taken from a video taken during a shoot for @AcrobaticArts 2012

Thursday 25 July 2013

Flexibility, Contortion, Handbalance Lessons in N15

Over in N15 (Seven Sisters/Tottenham Hale) I have a lovely gorgeous facility where I am able to offer tuition in handbalance and flexibility.  I can offer 1:1s and 2:1s mon-fri between 10am-6pm.  Contact for more details (dancingupsidedown@gmail.com).

I am a:
  • 8+ years of full time professional performing experience, performing worldwide at large events and in shows.
  • Full Public Liability Insurance up to £10,000,000
  • Full Enhanced CRB checked, plus completed child protection course
  • Have taught all ages from primary school children to adults
  • Have a 2.1 BSc (hons) degree in Physiotherapy from Leeds Metropolitan University
  • I have a vast knowledge of anatomy in relation to flexibility. 
  • Fully qualified British Gymnastics coach with 10yrs coaching experience
  • I regularly teach in a gymnastics club and frequently update my teaching knowledge by my work with other coaches, attending British Gymnastics coaching courses and conferences, and by my own research.  
  • I can teach the technical side (specific moves and technique).
  • I can teach the creative side (making the technical bits more interesting).
  • I work with both professional performers, people wishing to learn for fun, and people wanting to gain flexibility/handstands to enhance their other activities.

Wednesday 24 July 2013

Harrods - 2013

During July I worked a lovely day in Harrod's Childrenswear department performing acrobatics, contortion, and handstands.  Here are some pictures from the day :-)





Monday 22 July 2013

Glastonbury 2013 - Pictures

See Incandescence's FB page for more photos - click here

But here are a few of my favourite photos of me :-)
Please do not use any of these photos without permission.  

Solo 'Diamonds' Act 




Duo Acrobalance Act





Saturday 13 July 2013

2013 - Alice in Wonderland

Another month another Alice in Wonderland gig, a popular theme!  My middle name is Alice (true fact) and I loved being able to play Alice!!!  I created a bespoke contortion act on behalf of Sternberg Clarke (www.sternbergclarke.com)  that was all bendy and handstandy and fantastic and culminated in me drinking from the 'drink me' bottle and then squeezing into my teeny tiny box which had been beautifully decorated into a house shape.





Wednesday 10 July 2013

2013 - Photoshoot for The Last Exorcism 2

I shot some contortion images for the film The Last Exorcism 2.  Infact I shot the whole alphabet and it was made into an amazing feature where you can type in a sentence and my letters appear (www.possessedmessage.com).  This shoot was much much fun to work on, and fun once i got the images and spent an entire day making sentences out of the letters!  I also filmed some vines and some additional images for promoting the film, and also visited the Heat/FHM offices.  The picture below on the pool table my eyes freakily did actually look like that!  Thankyou to photographer Nick for shooting such fabulous images!!! (www.nickminers.com)





2013 - Glastonbury Festival

I was lucky enough to be working with Incandescence (www.incandescence.com) on their amazing brand new show Ezmeralda.  After an intense week of rehearsals in Cornwall we took the show to the Circus Big Top at Glastonbury Festival.  I performed a brand new solo handbalance act 'Diamonds', and a brand new duo acrobalance contortion act with Lisa.  It went amazing and was much much fun.  My costume for my solo act was made by Rada (www.missradida.com) and then i sewed hundreds and hundreds of very sparkly proper Swarovski crystals onto it, it took ages, sent me doolally, but was well worth it as i love it, as well as the also very sparkly diamante handstand canes i also created  :-)  Lots of amazing promo pictures and video to come very soon of these acts.
Glastonbury itself was amazing as always.  The last two years now that i have been then it has been really sunny, I feel very lucky!!!


2013 - Chippenham

On the one day off between rehearsing and teching and performing the show for Glastonbury me and Lisa didn't get a day off.  Instead we took our duo act to Chippenham and performed at a big corporate event for an accountancy firm.  The event went very well, and the feedback we received was that they were particularly wowed by our performance. :-)


2013 - Dubai

The day i landed back at Heathrow from Myanmar I was straight on a train to Cornwall to rehearse with Incandescence to perform in their amazing Alice in Wonderland themed show in Dubai.  The event was a private party for some very important and lucky children, the venue was absolutely beautifully themed and decorated.  I was the sleepy doormouse character, and performed a bespoke handbalance contortion act created specially for this show with direction from the wonderful Incan team :-)  Below is an image of me as the doormouse taken from the Incandescence site (www.incandescence.com) - do visit it for more details on their Alice show :-)


Tuesday 9 July 2013

2013 - Myanmar

Sometimes I get to travel to wonderful countries to perform, and June had a very special treat in store for me, I got to travel to Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar(Burma) to perform at a corporate event.  I performed my solo handbalance contortion act, my duo acrobalance contortion act, and a set of ambient contortion.  It was a wonderful trip and my performances went very well.  While there I got to visit the most beautiful pagoda I have ever been to, the Shwedagon in Yangon, if you are ever in Yangon then it is definitely worth a visit!  Here is a picture of me and Lisa on our hotel balcony :-)


New Blog

I decided to start a new blog with a new provider.  Sadly my old blog just left me wanting to hit the computer as it consistently froze and wouldn't upload my pictures, so i moved :-)