The IJA Welcome show is a completion of outstanding juggling talents from across the globe and is wonderful for jugglers and non-jugglers. Join us for this talent packed show to kick off the IJA Festival!
Cate Flaherty (Cate Great) – Emcee
Cate is a 17 year veteran of circus stage and street. She’s performed her solo show, The Cate Great! Show, in 11 different countries including Australia, New Zealand, Dubai, as well as most of the US and Canada. This is her third time appearing at the IJA and she is delighted to be your master of ceremonies for the evening.
Jin Suzuki
Jin Suzuki is a Cigarbox juggler.
They show the unique performance of the cigar box with original tricks.
Additionally, they are active as a butoh and sword swallowing performer and their favorite food is mackerel miso. Jin Suzuki has won 2nd place in the 2013 Japan Juggling Festival and 1st place in the 2013 Japan Cigarbox Competition.
Sobolieva Susanna
Sobolieva Susanna is from Ukraine, Kiev and is a well known foot juggler. They first saw a circus when they were 12 years old and thought all circus artists were like super humans! They have been working as a artist in a variety of countries for more than 13 years. They graduated from Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television.
Tim Air-Walker
Tim Air-Walker is a club juggler based in Texas, USA. In 2017, he was exposed to other club jugglers like Marvin Ong, Lucas Aguirre & Wyatt Davis who all incorporated variations of floaty windmill type patterns. Air-Walker immediately fell in love with circular aesthetics within club juggling. To this day, he continues to pursue this style of juggling in the hopes that one day he will be able to flow like wind itself!
Ciara Thorburn
Ciara Thorburn: Circus Artist, Producer, Variety Performer, Entertainer, Clown, Mouth Juggler, Cabaret Luminary and human being. Ciara defies expectations in extraordinary ways, she has a knack for turning the mundane into the astonishing. With her unique skills and character work, Ciara entices audiences to connect and enter into a world of absurd pleasure and mirth. Ciara Thorburn is a 2018 NICA graduate, and is currently waiting out the apocalypse in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Isabella Majzun
Isabella Majzun began doing circus fifteen years ago, when she was only five years old. Throughout the years, she has performed across the U.S. and Israel with the acrobatic troupe the St. Louis Arches, and she spent three summers touring New England with Circus Smirkus. By incorporating flexibility and acrobatic dance into her juggling, she attempts create an interesting and innovative style that will surprise people. She currently attends l’École Nationale de Cirque in Montreal and hopes to pursue a career as a professional circus artist.
Fernanda Sumano
Fernanda Sumano is a Juggler specialized in hula hoops, from Mexico City she teaches, performs and spins her hoops around the world, a big referent for all the Mexican and Latinoamerica hoop community. In 2011 she won the first IJA regional Contest.
Currently performing and teaching in Playa del Carmen Mexico.
Ariane Oechsner
Ariane Oechsner has been on stage for 30 years, started juggling over 20 years ago and has been doing both as a profession for 15 years. 2013 she graduated from the professional circus school DIE ETAGE e.V. in Berlin and went on to do her master‘s in choreography at the Codarts in Rotterdam and Fontys in Tilburg (Joint-Degree COMMA – Co-Creation of Movement Master of Arts). Last winter she finished the course „Formalisation de Projet“ at ESACTO‘Lido in Toulouse. After several years between Berlin and Paris, early in 2020 Ariane returned to Vienna, where she engages as an active member in several local collectives (TRAP, SchloR, Töchter der Kunst etc.). For the past nine years, Ariane successfully toured the world (Europe, Asia, Africa, USA, South America) in various artistic contexts (Cirque Romanès, CriticalMess by Stefan
Sing, Jérôme Thomas etc.). Recently she focused on writing and realising her own projects (notably: „play nice“ with Roxana Küwen). Ariane works as a choreographer, director and performer – focused on the non-verbal, aesthetic expression of movement and object manipulation. She understands her artistic practice as inter- (sectional) disciplinary: her current research interest explores the intersection of performative art and political activism.
Her artistic practices and creation methods involve approaches from meditation, dance, clown and political philosophy. She engages various divers ideas to form her very own methodology of improvisation and writing with movement. In this masterclass she will focus on creating movement vocabulary with objects through guided physical improvisation as well as extracting material for performative purposes: she will share her approach on practice and theory of creation.
Roxana Küwen
Roxana Küwen is a performing artist and creator of German and Iranian origins. Whilst graduating at the Academy for Circus and Performance Art Tilburg in the Netherlands she specialized in foot juggling and trapeze. She has been working for over ten years in various fields of circus and performing arts. She works solo with her own company Cie بلبل bolbol, in the duo Ariane&Roxana and in the CiNS collective, performing all over the world. From the Cirque du Soleil event to Contemporary Dance festivals, from traveling circus to social projects – the diversity of her audience is a decisive factor of her artistic vision.
Salih Mahammed
Salih Mahammed is a Circus Artist from Mekelle Tigray. He is been performing around the world for more than 10 years, now he resides in Jacksonville Florida.
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