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    The Artist Athlete Podcast

    This podcast is dedicated to circus. It’s a place for professionals in the industry to share their stories, view points, and information.

    Support the podcast by becoming a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

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    Latest Episodes:
    Episode ?: CirquePhysio Interviews The Artist Athlete Feb 25, 2019
    Show notes

    Guess what friends, fans, and enemies? WE DID IT! The podcast is officially self-sufficient thanks to my amazing Patreons! As a reward, Jen Crane of CirquePhysio interviewed me about my circus likes and dislikes, how I grew my social media presence, and what's coming next for The Artist Athlete. To hear the full interview, become a patreon at http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #41: Circus As Entertainment vs Circus As Fine Art with Rain Anya Feb 18, 2019
    Show notes

    The Artist Athlete Podcast goes out of its way to introduce y’all to individual artists and small circus companies making work that is outside of the norm, and today is no exception! Rain Anya, half of the company Paper Doll Militia, has been making theater in some form or another for over 20 years. We talked about her newest creation, Warped, as well as the difference between being an artist in the US versus in Scotland, where her aerial life partner, Sarah Bebe Holms lives.

    If you’re in the Atlanta area, go see Warped this weekend at 7 Stages! Get your tickets here:

    https://www.7stages.org/shows/warped/

    Visit Paper Doll Militia online: http://www.paperdollmilitia.com

    On Instagram: @paperdollmilitia

    AND

    check out the website of one of Rain’s aerial inspirations James Thierree:

    http://www.compagnieduhanneton.com/

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #40: Finding Your Circus WHY? with Florian Zumkehr Feb 11, 2019
    Show notes

    Flo Zumkehr started training circus as a young boy in Switzerland, before pursuing his dreams further at the State Artist School in Berlin. He went on to perform with at the Chameleon and several German cabarets before moving to Montreal, where he soon was hired by Cirque Eloize, then The 7 Fingers. After years of touring, something called Flo back to Berlin, he began to explore WHY he started circus in the first place, and his findings led him to his latest project the company Analog.

    See Analog’s show Finale at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe!

    Get tickets HERE: https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/finale-af2019

    Instagram:

    @flozumkehr

    @analogthecompany

    Website: http://www.florian-zumkehr.com/

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #39: From Struggle to Mastery and Back Again with Mandi Orozco Feb 04, 2019
    Show notes

    An inspiring interview for anyone who needs a motivation boost! Mandi Orozco, an aerialist and contortionist who has traveled the world, both with Cirque du Soliel and as a freelance performer. She reflects on taking risks, creating new work, the business side of circus, and so much more!

    Instagram: @miss_ironmandi

    Website: http://www.mandi-o.com

    Treadmill: https://vimeo.com/295255764?fbclid=IwAR0b_F00MrI8_l-EDelKxaEA-_ZJjsKJxcUgnDfM8gG3jPqyyBi2xU2le9A

    Eprueve Synthese (tissu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UDD-ZXvahU

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #38: The Large and Small Stages of Comedy with Jimmy Slonina Jan 28, 2019
    Show notes

    Jimmy Slonina is an actor, clown, comedian, and lip-sync extraordinaire. He has occupied some big stages with Cirque du Soleil and P!NK. In this episode, he tells Shannon about the components of a good lip-sync, what goes through his mind when he's picking someone for audience participation, and what he considers when taking on a role.

    Website: http://jimmyslonina.com/

    Instagram: @jimmyslo

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jimmyslo

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #37: Making A Great Act with Cate Great! Jan 21, 2019
    Show notes

    Cate happened upon the world of street performing almost by accident, but once she did, she knew she had found her calling. She trained at The Quebec School, and then set out to create a character, a show, and a lifestyle that is uniquely her own. Seventeen years later, she’s still at it.

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #36: Cupcakes Are Gender Neutral, A Discussion of Queer Circus with Jack StockLynn aka Sir Cupcake Jan 14, 2019
    Show notes

    While Shannon was visiting Portland, Oregon, she got to meet up with the amazing Jack StockLynn. Jack is a transgender aerialist who creates and produces spectacles with his own circus, Sir Cupcake’s Queer Circus. In this episode, Shannon and Jack discuss the roles of gender in circus, Jack’s process for creating work, and strategies to cope with some of the universal issues that plague humanity.

    Find Jack StockLynn online: http://www.sircupcake.com

    On Instagram: @thesircupcake

    Find Sir Cupcake’s Queer Circus online: https://www.sircupcakesqueercircus.com

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #35: Extreme Flexibility and Safety in Coaching with Catie Brier Jan 07, 2019
    Show notes

    Contortion and flexibility instructor Catie Brier started off as just another flexible girl with dreams of performing in circuses far and wide. However, she sustained several injuries and decided to stop working. She became dedicated to the pursuit of helping people who wanted to push their limits of flexibility safely. Through her contortion intensives, regular classes at the San Francisco Circus Center, and large online presence, Catie has amassed an army of bendy followers from all over the world.

    For more episodes about contortion, check out episode 4, 8, and 23.

    Follow Catie on instagram: @catie.brier.contortion

    Website: http://www.catiebriercontortion.com/

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #34: An Education in Acrobatic Basing with Nathan Price of Standing Acrobatics Dec 17, 2018
    Show notes

    Nathan Price has performed with some of the top circus companies in the world as an acrobatic base. He has an online blog and tutorials to spread safe practices for AcroYoga and recreational acrobatics called Standing Acrobatics, and even invented a new kind of liquid chalk especially for circus artists. He is also British, so he sounds really smart. Despite all of his success (his being British being the ultimate achievement), he took some time to huddle in a parking garage (or, as he calls it, a “car park”) with a jacket over his head, so that Shannon could ask intrusive questions about his relationship with his flyer.

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

    Episode #33: The Universal Aerial Language with Dara Minkin Dec 10, 2018
    Show notes

    Calling all aerial nerds! Time to kick back and get a dose of knowledge from one of the leading creators in the US aerial scene, Dara Minkin. Shannon talks to Dara about her pursuit to organize and clarify the concepts that are universal to all aerial apparatus in her new book: Proximal. Dara talks about how different forms of dance, her dreams, and mathematics inform her approach to teaching and performing in the air.

    Buy the book: https://aerial-design.myshopify.com/

    Instagram: @aerial.design

    Outside Resources:

    Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals - https://labaninstitute.org/about/bartenieff-fundamentals/

    Mallakhamb Information - http://www.newpunegymkhana.org/

    Examples of Rope Mallakhamb:

    Shirol Competition (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVDsD5dlLsTamizhan Mallakhamb Academy (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munxUJIDngk

    Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete

    This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top.

    Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you!

    She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest.

    Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com

    Facebook: The Artist Athlete

    Instagram: @the_artist_athlete

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