Ensemble

Sarah Bleasdale is a New Zealand-born dancer, choreographer and performer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in 'Contemporary Dance and Choreography' from UNITEC, a 'Commercial Dance' Diploma, and a BA in Politics. Sarah is an award winner for her dance theatre solo SMIRK at the Gdański Festiwal Tańca: Solo Dance Contest in Poland, and a funding recipient from Gdański Festiwal Tańca for her group piece INNERMEN. Sarah has danced for Cie. Antonia Baehr(GER), GAU Company(GER), SOIT/Cie. Hans Van den Broeck(BEL), Renan Martins(BR) and the Belgian 20 For Brussels:Young Choreographers under Marie Martinez. From 2015-2022 Sarah collaborated with the Belgian theatre company UBIK as a movement director, choreographer and performer in Paris, Marseilles, Flers, Le Mans, and Brussels for Festival Acotral and Festival l'Oreille du Perche. Sarah has a rich history working with the Drag King convention - in both commercial and contemporary settings. In Berlin Sarah designed and teaches the movement curriculum Embodied Presence for actors at Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts and Technology, and is a burgeoning Whip artist.

Website: https://www.sarah-bleasdale.com/

Sarah Lindermayer is a Chinese Pole acrobat and rarity as one of the few Tightrope Dancers in Germany. In 2011 Sarah graduated from Berlin’s Staatliche Artistenschule and for the first five years of her career she worked under the name of Duo 3fach, together with her aerial-acrobatic partner Antonia Modersohn. They successfully played for several theatres in the German Varieté circuit such as GOP Varieté, Varieté Et Cetera and Café Hahn. Throughout the years performing on the Tightrope and Chinese Pole, Sarah also stepped into other genres like acting, singing and clowning. She has performed at circus festivals such as Sortie de Bains in Granville, Eclat de Rue in Caen, Mime Festival in Chuncheon, Festival Circada in Seville and Festival Kaldearte in Victoria. More recently Sarah lent her talents to the art world where she was part of the installation Angst 2 from Anne Imhof at the Museum for Modern Art in Berlin, and the performance concert for Happiness Seriousness with the orchestra Klangforum Wien. Since 2010 she has been working with the Berlin-based circus company Die Artistokraten and she still is. She also worked with the Berlin theater company Coq Au Vin, the French circus company Cirque Entre Nous. In 2021 she was part of the new creation Opening with Analaog The Company and worked for two seasons with the flying trapeze company Omnivolant.

Website: https://sarah-lindermayer.de

Vanessa Lee is a multidisciplinary circus artist who trained at Berlin’s Staatliche Artistenschule. Following in the footsteps of her mother Linda Murphy’s circus career, Vanessa became inspired to create an all female circus company. Vanessa has regularly performed in the German Varieté circuit and has performed internationally with a wide variety of circus companies such as UliK Robotic Circus, Die Artistokraten and her creation Zwei Kanonen und der Nippelalter. Vanessa has worked as a teacher for Berlin’s Circus Sonnentich and has choreographed for multiple student circus acts. Over the years her interests have expanded from aerial acrobatics and juggling to exploring acts with unique twists such as tap dancing, foot juggling and magic. With a keen desire to build costumes and the creative mind to create different illusions, she is constantly collecting surprising objects for shows.

Website: http://www.vanessa-lee.de

Sari Mäkelä is an actress and circus performer from Finland. She was a big fan of costume parties as a child and she loved to create crazy eccentric characters and imaginative stories. Sari’s performance career started at the age of seven while attending her hometown’s circus school. She then studied acting at the Theater Academy of Finland and in 2010 joined the CAU circus and theatre school in Granada, Spain. From 2017-19 she furthered her studies of clown and theatre at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France. On stage her performances exude a delightful combination of circus talent, theatre and clown. She is well known for her award winning hula hoop character Marjatta, a cheeky old grandmother from Finland. With this character she has performed throughout Europe and Asia in both street theatre festivals and varietés alike. Marjatta won first prize at the 2019 Cyrkulacja competition in Lublin, Poland and the Public Choice Award at the 2021 Clown and Clown Festival in Monte San Giusto, Italy.

Website: http://www.sarimakela.com

Nicole Ratjen studied and trained at Le École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris after completing her BFA at York University in Toronto. Nicole has toured and worked across Canada, throughout Europe and all around Australia delighting circus and theatre audiences alike with her physical and no holds barred humour. She is one third of GLB, Berlin’s longest running English language long-form improv team, a company member of TheatreFragile, who perform mask theatre in public spaces, and when not on tour she can be seen onstage hosting at Zirkus Mond. As a writer, she is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada and in 2019 she published a book of 33 monologues for women, titled 33 X Nikki with successful launches in Berlin and Toronto. Fostering and growing the artistic community is incredibly important to Nicole. As an instructor, she has brought her talents to teaching the techniques of theatre such as Improvisation, Mask, Clown, Acting and Devised Theatre. Selected credits include: Lübeck Theater, Schauspiel Hannover, Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts and Technology, Schauspiel Köln and Comedy Cafe Berlin.

Website: http://www.nicoleratjen.com