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Amy Bethel
Amy has been trapezing with Cycropia since
1996. She became interested in gaining circus skills after
taking a tumbling workshop with the Women's Circus of
Melbourne, Australia at the UN Fourth World Conference
on Women in China in 1995. The Women's Circus gave her
a vision of liberation through movement and performance
that she has carried into her involvement with Cycropia.
The first thing Amy can ever remember wanting to be was
a ballerina, and she took lessons in ballet, tap, jazz
and modern dance as a young person. After pursuing the
visual arts for fifteen years, she finally rediscovered
dance at the age of 31 when she took a workshop with Cycropia
and learned to fly. She has performed with Cycropia since
1998 and choreographed her first aerial dance piece in
2000.
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Rebecca
Bock
A childhood penchant for tree swings, wrestling
and cowgirl boots predisposed Rebecca to linking up with
Cycropia in their aerial endeavors. Reconnecting, also with a childhood love
of being lifted and tossed into the air, Rebecca has been
gleefully perched on a trapeze with her fellow Cycropians
since 1995.
She loves open-grown oaks, the feeling of
wind on her face and is experiencing a growing fascination
with wings.
Rebecca also likes participating in yoga,
improvisational dance, skinner releasing, swing dancing,
roth waves, swimming, ice skating and rollerblading. She
is especially fond of artistic endeavors and has a love
of beauty.
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Patrick
Crean
Patrick has been with Cycropia since 1992.
In addition to Cycropia shows Flights of Fancy, Dreams of Flying, Caution, and Nocturne,
he has danced in the Children's Theater of Madison's Peter
Pan, with Don Redlich at UW Madison, in the Isthmus
Jazz Festival, and the Performing Artists' Spotlight.
"I wish everyone watching could come into the dance,
experience the quick spin of the trapeze, feel the acceleration
and weightlessness."
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Linda
Di Raimondo
Linda first took flight 1998. She has been dancing, choreographing, and costume designing with Cycropia ever since.
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Nataraj Hauser
Nataraj found his way to aerial dance via a long history of martial arts. After hanging up his gloves in 2003, he briefly studied belly dance with his wife and simultaneously discovered contact improv dance, which remains a passion. Seeing Cycropia perform at the Orton Park Festival in 2005 knocked his socks off. A single trapeze class taught by Marcia Miquelon led to more classes and performance, then to Cycropia's classes just in time to perform in the 2006 Orton Park show, and finally to joining the troupe in the spring of 2010. He thinks the combination of grace and strength needed to perform aerial dance is a perfect blend of hard work and phenomenal play.
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Billy
Kardasz
While taking his first aerial class in 2000
(thank you Aeros) Billy discovered the bond between music,
movement, expression and has never stopped flying. Joining
Cycropia's advanced class (2003) he honed his love for
dance through workshops, choreography and performance,
and in 2008 became a troupe member. Billy
feels that to discover, grow and create is a gift, and
that sharing this gift through performance an even greater
one. As a wee tyke Billy wanted to be an astronaut.
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Laura Lob
Laura took her first aerial class in 2004 and joined the troupe in 2010.
'At my grade school we had an amazing piece of playground equipment called a “waterwave.” A large metal structure in the shape of an umbrella, you grabbed on for dear life and soared and spun high into the air, occasionally touching the ground. It was a wonderful combination of flying and surfing. I hadn’t had that feeling for a long time, until Cycropia. The joyful experience of taking classes from, and performing with Cycropia Aerial Dance is akin to escaping a stuffy classroom for recess on a really cool playground.'
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Kenneth
Loud
Kenneth has danced on the floor since 1985 and through
the air since 1991. When he is not working as a professional
carpenter, Ken teaches, choreographs and acts as technical
director for the company. Outside of Cycropia, he has
performed in works by Peggy Choy, Tim Glenn, Neal Jahren
and Atala-Nicole Loud.
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Kristi
Minahan
Kristi began trapezing and cavorting with Cycropia in
2001, when she was looking for a movement practice that
combined strength, music, grace, and community…and
the Universe pointed her toward Cycropia. She became a
Collective member in 2008. Drawing from her vaudevillian
ancestry, Kristi loves the whimsy and exploration of aerial
dance, the challenge of choreography, and the mystique
of the backstage world.
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Marcia
Miquelon
Marcia Miquelon directs the Mazomanie Movement Arts Center and the Wild Rumpus Circus Camps. Her background includes ballet, modern, African and Latin dance, along with yoga and contact improvisation. Her love of teaching has taken her from the ski slopes of Utah to the classrooms of Southern Africa. She joined Cycropia in 1994, and has performed, choreographed, directed, and served in numerous administrative roles, especially in the areas of education and publicity. She completed Scott Anderson's Alignment Yoga teacher training course in 2004, and her adjunct certification in the Skinner Releasing Technique in 2005.
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Luv Joy Seamon
Luv Joy Seamon joined the Cycropia collective in 2010, but has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She brings training in such diverse areas as modern dance, diving, circus arts, pilates, and contact improvisation to her aerial performance, teaching, and choreography. In addition to her work with Cycropia, Luv has been a member of LAVA Dance Collective, an improvisational dance company that currently tours the US, since 2001. Luv has a MA in Dance/Movement therapy. When not flying, she can be found at one of her many jobs, instilling the healing power of movement expression to children and adults.
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Sandy
Rae Thistle
Carpenter by day, dervish by night ...
Sandy began dancing with Cycropia in 1991. In the fall
of 1996 she began a personal collaboration with musician
Daithi Wolfe and production of her own mini trapeze troupe.
Her two young daughters, Mairead Snow and Fiona Dance
have already choreographed and performed their own trapeze
solos. Sandy returned to Cycropia in 2001 and has been
flying with the mighty moths ever since.
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