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SHOW was created out of the need for a circus training space in the Pioneer Valley. Through the collaborative efforts of a core group of people, we are now a fully functioning studio that offers training as well as classes and workshops. Our goal is to build a vibrant circus community in the Pioneer Valley and to make circus arts available to people from all walks of life. We have listed all of our teachers and performers below. Private lessons are available with all teachers. Please email us for more information or to schedule. Have something to offer our studio? Contact us!
Christopher Oakley has been performing and studying contortion and circus for the past seven years. He has studied at the San Francisco Circus Center, EOA Contortion Studio in Las Vegas and The New England Center for Circus Arts where he graduated from their Professional Track Program in 2008. He has been a freelance performer for many circus companies in the United States and even performed at the International Contortion Convention in Las Vegas in 2006. He has taught everyone from children at circus summer camps to college gymnasts and adult beginners. He is still performing and teaching and is excited to be involved in the creation of a new circus community in the Pioneer Valley.
Henry Wheaton Having worked backstage as a lighting tech in the theatre throughout high school and college, Henry swore that he'd never step in front of the curtain. He started taking classes at the New England Center for Circus Arts in 2007, went through their Professional Track program in 2008-9 and would now enthusiastically crawl through a sea of broken glass to get on any stage for thirty seconds.
Marah MacRostie is a founding member of SHOW! After a short stint with the Puppetual Motion Cycle Circus in 2001, Marah saw a static trapeze act and thought "How cool! I want to do that!" She had the opportunity to take a few classes at DoJump (Portland, OR) in 2003, but it wasn't until training at NECCA from 2007 to the present that she really was able to realize that dream. Marah is excited to have somewhere local to train and develop circus community. She hopes to make SHOW! a space welcoming and accessible to everyone interested in circus, including people of color, and seeks feedback and discussion about how to do that responsibly and respectfully.
Amanda Goble first realized her love of movement in childhood dance and gymnastics classes. She began studying and performing circus arts in 1998. Since then, she has trained in San Francisco, Seattle and Brattleboro, VT with a variety of coaches and dance teachers. With experience in a variety of aerial and ground disciplines, she currently performs both as a soloist and with her partner, Caroline Wright. Amanda is a founding member of MOTH Aerial Dance Company, with whom she has worked as a performer, choreographer and collaborator. An experienced teacher of movement, she is a certified Pilates instructor and personal trainer with vast and varied knowledge of movement and the body.
Caroline Wright began her circus training climbing "high boy" dressers and swinging from curtains before she could walk. Since then, she has performed as an aerialist throughout the United Stated and Canada for a wide range of clients including corporate celebrations, festivals, weddings and fund-raising events. Caroline specializes in teaching trapeze, fabric, aerial hoop, flexibility and hand balancing.
Bronwyn Sims teaches aerial and circus arts at The New England Center for Circus Arts and has taught at numerous universities and schools throughout NYC and New England. She has performed her amazing body-bending feats around the world as well as being an accomplished actor in movies, television, and on Broadway. You can go to her website at
Suzanne Rappaport After years teaching and competing as a professional snowboarder Suzanne started her circus career on a Club Med vacation when she went on the flying trapeze. She has gone onto to train with French aerialist Fred Deb, Nimble Arts, studied Chinese Acrobatics with Lu Yi and Xia Ke Min and swinging trapeze with Elena Panova at the San Francisco Circus Center. She has taught and/or choreographed for Trapeze School New York, Circus Smirkus, Acrofabulous of Chicago, the Oak Park Circus Program and the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, VT. She now resides in Southern Vermont and teaches circus arts to adults and children full time as well as pursues a doctoral degree in physical therapy.
Patrick Donnelly has performed in films such as The Ciderhouse Rules, The Love Letter Trial by Fire, Happy Doomsday & The Bus Stop Movie, which was named Best Short Film at the 1999 Ajijic Film Festival in Mexico. He was a founding member of the Elliot Norton award winning Boston ensemble theater company Raven Theatrical where he played Gustav in the popular children’s musical Emil & The Detectives & Proveloney in Psycho Beach Party. Both productions were extended multiple times. He played Harpo in Groucho: A Life in Revue at the Jewish Theater of New England. He wrote & directed The Other Planet, which premiered at the Williamsburgh Arts NeXuS (WAX) in Brooklyn, NY. He has also performed at the 2007 and 2008 NYC Clown Theater Festival and toured nationally with Brattleboro based circus company Nimble Arts, and taught physical comedy at the Colorado College Extraordinary Dance Festival in 2008.
Spiral has been hooping for 8 years and is highly regarded as a pioneer of the modern hoop dance movement, known for her speed, precision and unique spinning style. She helped found the Carrboro, NC hooping community and has gone on to pursue a solo performance career that has taken her around the world. Also an esteemed instructor, she teaches workshops and private lessons across the country in all levels of hoop dance.
More info at www.spiralhoopdance.com
Trixie Little is one half of an award winning acrobatic burlesque super duo and has been flipping and stripping for audiences since 2002. With highly skilled sexy-smart antics and a charming love-hate dynamic, Trixie and The Evil Hate Monkey have been featured in the premiere episode of “The Gong Show with Dave Attel” on Comedy Central, performed with John Waters, The Flaming Lips, three consecutive Virgin Music Festivals, Rothbury Music Festival, the Philly, DC and Brighton, England Fringe Festivals and are the winners of Las Vegas' 2006 Exotic World Best Burlesque Duo trophy. In New York City, the two are regular late-night fixtures everywhere from uber-exclusive nightclubs to regular burlesque shows, and have been called "the only way to end the party" by the Village Voice. As a solo performer, Trixie has competed for the Miss Exotic World title in Las Vegas twice and been awarded "Most Innovative" and 2nd Runner Up in 2007. As a teacher, Trixie has been teaching burlesque and vaudeville style act creation since 2005 and tries to offer her students a challenging, supportive environment where they pull out their sexy and silly side!
More info at www.trixielittle.com
Felicia Malachite began performing professionally in 1995 with the Sisters of Salome belly dance troupe, and by 1997 had started teaching. In addition to private lessons, she has taught belly dance as a continuing education program at U Mass Amherst, at Inspiritcommon, and at festivals such as Starwood, Forestdance, and Spiritfire.
Felicia has appeared on stage with several live music bands, including Mawwal and Incus, and as a guest of Gene Loves Jezebel. She has toured the US several times, dancing at nightclubs, concert events, festivals, and special events.
Additionally Felicia is the assistant manager of the U Mass Amherst Costume Shop.
Nettie Lane While in utero, Nettie Lane’s parents spent numerous hours watching episode upon episode of the Three Stooges. This may explain the uncanny resemblance to Larry’s hair-do for the first few years of her life, as well as her genetic disposition to the Art of Goofiness. Once her hair grew out she occupied herself by spending countless hours climbing, scheming and dreaming in her favorite Tree. Nettie’s love of nature led her to work for an environmental non-profit as Education Director-- connecting kids to nature via Open Space protected lands and urban creeks. In 2006, she traded in one circus for another and left her job to devote herself to her new passion-Circus Arts. During this time she performed primarily with Flynn Creek Circus as storyteller, aerialist, bearded lady and clown. In 2008 she moved to Vermont to attend the Professional Track Training program at the New England Center for Circus Arts, focusing on trapeze and Duo Acrobatics. After studying with Giovanni Fusetti, her clown Annabelle was born. You may catch sight of her running around in a pink shower cap leaving a wave of ruckus behind her.
SHOW Circus Studio
150 Pleasant St, Suite #313
Easthampton, MA 01027
About
“When our kids talk about circus class to their friends, they're faces just light up. They spout things like: Trapeze! Mermaid! Cocoon! Rola-bola-thingy! Plates! They're learning a new language- not just for speaking- but in their movement too. It's tremendous.”
~Audrey H
Raneff Winters trained and studied martial arts and lion dancing in Las Vegas under the tutelage of Sifu Steven Baugh for more than ten years. Training in the vibrant city of Las Vegas provided him with opportunities to train with a variety of masters including Jian Zengjiao, Carl Totton and Kam Yuen. While training, Raneff taught for the Lohan School of Shaolin and performed as a lion dancer and performer for Jackie Chan, Cirque du Soleil and countless casinos. His true passion remained teaching, where he hopes to ignite the passion for martial arts in others that has been so instrumental in his own life.