Circus It Yourself!

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Circus It Yourself comes from a "do it your damn self" attitude and the punk music ethos of playing the music you want to hear. As a crew, we're a revolving cast of performers - some circus, some burlesque, others dancers or musicians - who wanted to put out the work they wanted to see in the world and was not finding on a stage. Whether it is personal, sensual, comedic, political, or a combination of human emotions, we perform to fulfill a desire to be the art we want to see in the world and to encourage others they can do the same.

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The Hearts We Share

When you & I interact with each other a heart is born between us for the first time . It's not in the body. When you think of something, when you think of someone, a heart is born there. Suppose you were the only person in the world...there wouldn't be a heart anywhere, would there?"
Kaien Shiba, "Bleach" chapter 268, by Tite Kubo

'The Hearts We Share' is a contemporary movement show - featuring circus, dance, and more - focusing on a cast of performers in the course of a performance. '...Hearts...' focuses on the bonds and stories we share with each other during the times we are together on and off-stage. It is originally inspired by how close - like family - classmates in intensive training programs and long-running shows & tours become during the course of our times together. We didn't necessarily pick each other, like one normally chooses friends; we were all put together by an external force and formed "hearts" between us, whether we meant to or not.

We learn about each other lives via stories we share; or witnessing those moments we may try to hide from the world. We pick up habits, nervous tics, speech patterns, skill sets, dietary cravings, musical choices. We create, share, embrace, and bolster each other through the tides of life even as the show must go on.

For the debut performance of 'The Hearts We Share,' it is a collaborative work between seven female, Nashville artists. Assembled by “Kinetic” Kristen Teffeteller in early 2017, performers Alicia Dawn, Evelyn Vinyl, Freya West, Paigey Popss, Christy Rose, and Jolene Theresa have over two decades combined creating and working professionally in the worlds of dance, circus, and burlesque. Not surprisingly, they all met previously because of the crossover between those art forms in Nashville, and all have cross-trained in each other’s performing art at some point in the last ten years. The ladies of 'The Hearts We Share' have all traveled and performed across the globe in their respective fields, and chose to call Music City homebase.