With a performance career that spans more than two decades and encompasses multiple disciplines, former Cirque Du Soleil Aerial Artist and Dancer Jill Crook brings very unique insights to her performing and teaching responsibilities.
During the course of an impressive dance career highlighted by featured appearances in the popular Las Vegas productions “Storm” at the Mandalay Bay and “The Fashionistas”, Jill fell in love with and set her sights on the aerial arts beginning an intensive period of study that included Silks, Rope/Web, Lyra/Hoop and Hammock. To her already varied dance background she added contortion fundamentals and her transformation from dancer to aerialist was complete.
Jill’s aerial career includes numerous corporate, TV award and special event performances taking her from New York to Hawaii and she has performed on nearly every type of aerial apparatus. In 2009 she was featured in Britney Spear’s “Circus” video And for twelve years she appeared in Cirque Du Soleil’s ” Zumanity” at New York New York Hotel in Las Vegas as “Mademoiselle Loup” performing the strap act. Jill also holds the rare distinction of having performed three different aerial acts on three different apparatuses, two of which she created specially for Zumanity.
Today, Jill shares her immense wealth of aerial knowledge with her private students in Las Vegas, several of whom have gone on to professional careers in the aerial arts, and around the country teaching seminars and workshops when her schedule allows taking particular delight in her students evolution. Jill was the aerial choreographer and assistant dance choreographer for One Night for One Drop 2017 and repeated that role in 2018, a production created by Cirque du Soleil. She was also given the role of artist coach at Zumanity, adding to her responsibilities on the show.
