Masha Terentieva

Masha Terentieva (born St.Petersburg, Russia, 1987) is an award-winning contemporary circus artist, innovator and director whose work explores character, movement and emotion. Her inspiration is drawn from performance art, physical theatre, clowning, dance and world music.  

Coming from a family of artists, she graduated from the National Circus School of Montreal, where she specialized in aerial hoop and hula hoops.  After years of performing on the most prestigious stages (Cirque du Soleil, Broadway, Cirque de Demain, Lido de Paris, Wintergarten, etc.) she designed and franchised the Aerial Hotel Cart, a unique circus apparatus that she then toured worldwide.

With a background in clown-mime and physical theatre, she is especially interested in the theatricality of circus and blending various genres together.  This led her to create original acts and eventually direct her own shows. As a director, she is interested in refining visual narrative and dramaturgy to produce evocative and poetic imagery that drives character development.

Masha had her directing worked showcased at Theatre Works Melbourne and Sydney Festival in 2021. She created cabaret shows for Wonderland Spiegeltent, and was assistant director to Craig Illot on L'Hotel at Sydney Opera House in 2022.