Suzi Winson

Suzi Winson is the Director and Co-founder of Circus Warehouse, a collaborative effort to produce the next generation of elite circus performers, bring circus to the broader public, and provide a space for the development of new and experimental works. ​Suzi ​runs the professional program​ at The Warehouse​ , which turns out top-level performers for traditional and contemporary circuses, and for dance and theatre productions that incorporate circus art skills.​ ​She’s also ringmistress of Circus Warehouse Events and ​Co-f​ounder/Director of Art and Circuses Gallery, an associated fine art space. Suzi’s many past incarnations include professional ballet dancer, Broadway gypsy, street clown, small press poetry editor/publisher, ​instigator of myriad small business projects, ​ political speech writer and, in recent years, aerialist, dance teacher and arts champion/impresario. She has had an extraordinary education in the arts, working with choreographers/mentors Agnes DeMille, Peter Gennaro, Tommy Tune, ​Lee Theodore, ​and later in life, training with flying ​circus ​stars Miguel Cáceres,​ Arturo Padilla, Peter Gold and​ Tony Steele​.​ Suzi produced 2009’s POEM: Poets on an Exchange Mission, a book and International performance festival of modern poetry translations (in collaboration with the French American Cultural Exchange — FACE). In 2011, she created and launched Circus Warehouse’s Aerial Text Experiments, performances mixing language and aerial arts. (Aerial Text Experiments takes place annually in conjunction with the viral, global phenomenon, 100 Thousand Poets for Change.) She is a director of Poets in Need, Inc., and a board member of Dzul Dance.