Morgan Barbour

Morgan Barbour is a circus artist, movement director, and writer. She is best known for her 145kg dual dental hang. She specialises in aerial hoop (doubles and solo), iron jaw, hair hang, aerial ladder, and flying trapeze. She is based in the United Kingdom but has right to work in the USA and EU. She holds the world record for heaviest dental hang (175.5kg). 

She has appeared on America's Got Talent, Ranking the Talent, Das Supertalent, and Česko Slovensko má talent.

Her duo Morgan & Roxi received the Pepino Medini Award at the 1st International Circus Festival Lago di Stresa in Stresa, Italy in 2024 and the Special Award at the International Almaty Circus Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2023. 

www.morganbarbour.com

IG: morganbarbour, morganandroxi, trio_nexus

2024 Keynote Speaker: Circus and It's Others (Colombia)

2022 Circus Talk Members' Voice Awards Nominations Committee Member

2021 Keynote Speaker: Symposium of Circus Thinking (New Zealand)  

Circus Writing

Flying Trapeze Won’t Make Women Infertile: How Victorian-era Infertility Myths Are Still Plaguing Modern Day Athletes

The Rise of the New Woman Within the Circus

The Female Aerialist: Androgyny, Femininity, and Muscularity

I started flying trapeze after I was sexually assaulted. The sport has saved my life.