Trapezista Ruby as Aviatrix











Aviatrix airplanes round the ring


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by John Tremblay

Career Highlights


festivals

  • Banco do Brasil: Circo Contemporena, opening act
  • Vancouver International Comedy Festival 2003
  • Premiero Festival Mundial do Circo do Brasil 2001 :: silver
  • 7th Wuquiao Intl Acrobatic Festival in China: Aviatrix premier :: bronze
  • Cirkus Prinsessan 98 in Sweden
  • Cirque de Demain 2000 in Paris
  • La Piste aux Espoirs 97 in Belgium
  • CMWC bike messenger's world championship 96 in San Francisco
  • Vancouver International Folk Festival 2004

shows

  • Circus Oz on Broadway at the New Victory
  • Leaky Heaven Circus (theatre), Vancouver
  • Circo Medrano, Italy
  • Cirque Eloize's Excentricus Italy tour
  • Himmel auf Erden dir. by Rolf Knie & Max Sieber, Switzerland
  • Las Vegas Circus, Japan
  • Circo Medrano, Italy
  • Wayne McCary's Maine dates, USA
  • Cirque Parasol, Canada tour
  • Montreal dinner show dir. by René Bazinet - duo w artistic bike
  • Tarzan Zerbini, Alberta

creations

  • Acts: Bathing Beauty, Cardea, Matador, Aviatrix, In the Night Wild, Elektra
  • Cirque du Soleil, MGM, dir. Robert LePage
  • Ziggurat!
  • The Flying SleepOver Extravaganza: 1hr show
  • LesFillesAuLit, trio comedie trapeze
  • DeadFall dir. Suzanne Dougan, Amherst, USA: aerial harness choreography
  • Circus Oz, Australia
  • Cirque Sublime, Toronto
  • Linhas Aereas, Brazil: dance & aerial

gala events

  • Bungee aerial ensemble w Cirque du Soleil choreographer Debra Brown, Nashville, USA
  • International Heart & Lung Association, Vancouver
  • Credit Suisse First Boston w Big Apple Circus
  • 24 h Velo Marathon International Cycling Event, Luxembourg
  • Sam Zel's 50th Bday bash, Chicago
  • Mercer Corp. Montreal
  • Advocates for Children, Baltimore

coaching/consultant

  • Escola do Circo & Spasso do Circo, Brazil
  • Montreal: private technique classes for professionals
  • Cloudles Sky & Trigger, Vancouver
  • Central do Circo, SP Brazil
  • TooBa physical theatre school, Vancouver: intro aerial
  • Cirkids: all round circus for children
  • Touchstone Theatre: Trigger

nightclubs

  • Webster Hall, NYC
  • Out of Shadows, Montreal
  • Celebrities & Atlantis, Vancouver

film/TV

  • Barney's Great Adventure
  • Bell Canada
  • Telus

great in situ

  • Swinging from Helium Balloon, BC Place, Vancouver
  • Copacabana Beach, Rio, Brazil
  • Bridge over the Seine, Rouen, France
  • Jericho Beach willow trees, Vancouver
  • Parc Lafontaine w Cirque du Soleil's Andre Simard, Montreal

rigging

  • Saltimbanco
  • Alegria
  • Boca del Lupo
  • On most of my gigs, I do my own rigging!