Act I Jorge Malagon – Lyra Lily Zhou – Silks Sirens: Adrienne, Meredith and Clara – The Bubble Milena Gonzalez – Silks Jake Fagan – Lyra Christine Moore – Silks Marissa Geesling – Lyra
Intermission
Act II Advanced Handstand Class Christine Pinho – Silks Megan Junod – Lyra Leanna Keith – Silks Svetlana Tchistiakova – Silks Eva Eggert – Sling Adam Lydick – Silks Brenna Baker – Lyra
Produced By Allison Mead Sounds and Lights – Martin Albion & Kel Lyle Stage Tech – Jill Marissa with Gabby Robinson, Monica Yuen, and Rachael Collins Video – Grayson Hays | Photography – Sam Westover
About our Performers
Jorge Malagon
Jorge discovered aerial dance some years ago as a fun way to get moving—and it’s been part of his life ever since. What started as pure curiosity became a meaningful practice to connect with the present and find joy in everyday life, even when he’s not up in the air and more like sitting in front of a laptop. One day, he hopes to share that joy by teaching others to fly too.
Lily Zhou
Lily really just came here to be moody and noodle-y – it’s honestly all she wants out of life as well. She’s so happy to have found a space and place in the air, surrounded by this wonderful community, and hopes y’all enjoy her mildly sleep-deprived possibly-choreographed-at-3AM act.
Sirens: Adrienne, Meredith and Clara
Shakespeare’s sonnets are often considered the height of English poetry. Is Sonnet 57 a treatise on romantic longing? Or something more sinister? Come sail our silver sea and find out for yourself. These sirens will make it worth your while…
Adrienne ran away from the theater to join the circus over a decade ago. Working her brain and body together keeps her sane and alive! She loves choreographing with friends and acts with a backstory. This act is Sirens, inspired by a terrible Shakespeare sonnet that the only reason Adrienne could imagine reciting was to lure someone to their death.
Meredith followed Adrienne to the circus as her “gateway workout.” She loves that she can think of nothing else when she’s on the equipment as she often needs a safe place to escape her own brain. Working with friends is a bonus—especially when those friends are such beautiful and amazing humans as Clara and Adrienne.
Clara has been exploring for almost a decade how to move gracefully against gravity (gravity usually wins, but the joy is in the trying and the strength she’s built along the way). Clara is excited to be a siren alongside her long time aerial sisters, Adrienne and Meredith. Creating the act and inventing triple-lyra choreo was weird fun, and we can’t wait to share some things you’ve never seen before!”
Milena Gonzalez
Milena is a survivor! She spent the month of october as a clinical enigma in the ER where doctors warned her she may never be able to do aerial or snowboard again (her favorite activities in the whole world). After months on blood thinners and an upper right rib removal, she is back doing the things she loves! Milena is just happy to be here, to be alive, to be able to move, to dance, to climb, to spin, and to laugh. She loves this cutie silly little life and appreciates it now more than ever! And loves loves loves everyone in it 💓
Jake Fagan
Jake Fagan is a user experience designer by day and a neon-loving cyberpunk aerialist by night. A former kid gymnast, he found his way back to movement through aerial hoop. Jake believes most things improve with more LEDs and will defend Johnny Mnemonic if pressed. He sends deep thanks to his partner and dogs, and his coaches: Liz, Meredith, Macy, and especially Nancy Neyhart, who first put him in a hoop and changed everything.
Christine Moore
Christine has been happily entangled in aerial silks since 2023. She loves the blend of artistry and physicality in circus arts, and above all, the community of friends and chosen family she’s found among her coaches and fellow students.
Marissa Geesling
Marissa started her dance journey on the ground, practicing ballet for 15+ years. She found a fondness for the aerial arts and took her first aerial class in late 2020. A five-year journey of trying out different apparatuses, she finally found her dance partner, the Lyra, in 2024. This will be her first performance, inspired in the wake of losing her father and grandfather this year.
Advanced Handstand Class
The Advanced Handstand Class has dreamed of performing in a student show for years, and now the dream has finally become a reality. Let the Orinoco Flow, baby!
Christine Pinho
Christine is so happy she discovered aerial arts over 6 years ago. She feels so lucky to participate in this art form that brings her such joy AND muscles. She loves how circus grounds her in the moment and creates space from her anxiety. She is so excited to share her joy with you.
Megan Junod
Megan started doing aerial arts a few months after moving to Seattle in August 2023. She slowly fell in love with the freedom and strength that the aerial arts offers. As her aerial journey continues, she hopes to continue to explore different creative ways to flow and move in the air.
Leanna Keith
Leanna has been enamored with circus arts since she was tiny but historically has been the most unathletic person you’ve ever met. She’s excited to finally get up into the air in front of an audience for the first time.
Svetlana Tchistiakova
Svetlana never imagined a nerdy linguist/programmer could do acrobatic stunts in the air, but after her first class she was hooked. She stuck with aerial arts as she traveled and lived around the world, learning the names of body parts in German, animal shapes in Italian, and exercises in Scottish English. Upon returning to Seattle in 2021, she dove into silks head first, and so far, shows no signs of resurfacing.
Eva Eggert
Eva is returning to circus after a 5 year hiatus. This is her first ever show as an adult and the first choreography she has put together independently with assistance from her lifelong coach, Lauren Kehl.
Adam Lydick
*blink blink* SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Brenna Baker
Brenna is a burlesque artist, costume designer, and aerialist who has been performing Lyra since 2018 in LA. She moved to Seattle in 2022 where she joined the New Moon community.
