Harley Quigley

Originally from Alexandria, Virginia, I graduated from Circadium: School of Contemporary Circus in Philadelphia in June of 2025. Specializing in aerial chains, I am also adept in dance trapeze, lyra, sling, and silks. I have already taken my skills to international spaces, working on a show presented at the contemporary circus festival, CIRCa, in Auch, France, and working for AirPlay and Circus Smirkus.
I strive to find beauty in pain by blending the raw intensity of aerial chains with fluid, expressive movement. I transform a traditionally harsh apparatus into a medium for grace, resilience, and emotional depth—turning struggle into art and tension into poetry. Like celestial bodies born from a supernova, my work embraces both destruction and creation, revealing the elegance within struggle. Every bruise, every scar tells a story—not just of endurance, but of transformation. Inspired by the duality of pain as both a wound and a form of self-expression, I use my art to reclaim that narrative, turning tension into poetry and struggle into something breathtakingly beautiful. Even in the darkest moments, beauty can be born.