Charles is a circus artist who recently graduated from the Full Time Training Program at Aloft! in Chicago. With 15 years of circus training at a recreational level under his belt, Charles moved to Chicago to pursue professional level training in all circus arts. Charles currently specializes in tightwire and insists ferverently that he is ground artist(handstands, acro, unicycle, etc.) and definitely not an aerialist (despite a natural penchant for finding new shapes in the tangles of rope, straps, and silks).
Okay, so that's me as written by myself pretending to be a third party, not really that interesting to say the least. I'm a circus artist with recent fascination with breaking the mold of movement in any and all circus skills/apparati(which is obviously the correct plural for apparatus). Currently I'm working myself to pieces trying to find vocabulary in tight wire and juggling, with a goal of being available for the creation of new pieces/shows, or simply making new self-contained work that markets to the general populace and challenges the tired and tried tropes of pre-contemporary and traditional circus acts (What a mouthful).
I'd like to say I can be clever and charming for all of this bio but here comes the boring old list of apparati I'm familiar/have a background with:
Tight Wire, Handbalancing, Unicycle, German Wheel, Cyr Wheel, Korean Plank, Juggling(Balls, Clubs, Diabolo, Hoops), Aerials(Rope, Straps, Silks, Spanish Web, Cradle, Swinging Trapeze, other created and absurd apparati), Chinese Pole, Clowning, Acrobatics(partner, group, tumbling, contortion, etc.), Trampoline Wall, and Teeterboard.
(This may not be a complete list)
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