Helen Averley

Helen has been working in circus since 1994. She is a former aerial and acrobatic adagio performer. Work: Managing Partner at Let's Circus, Roles currently include practically everything to make a circus work apart from on stage performance inc: Management & administration, project Development, tent master, rigger, driver, PR and Graphic design and concessions and peripheral performance. Also freelance coaching and mentoring and street performance. Education: She is the Co-Founder of Circus Central - a circus school on Newcastle upon Tyne, She is a teacher in circus and cross curriculum areas including - visual arts, history, science. Circademic/Historian: Co-Founder Circus Research Network (Britain and Ireland) History of the Circus in the North East of England. (book) War Circus - History of circus through WW1 (book)