Jenny is an American-born, Ireland-based specialist in spinning bar apparatus, and a chronic dabbler in everything else. She has performed and taught across three continents as a hula hooper, and aerialist, and once as a saucy hyena. Career highlights include dangling from cranes, executing her first walkover at age 30, and once being called by a member of GOM ‘the perfect middle of a 3-high.’ You can find her all over the internet under the name @circlecirque.

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Education

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Jenny has been chasing the wheeee! of circus arts since catching the flying trapeze bug while studying in New York in 2010. Deciding that a job in her academic field of study (politics) sounded exceptionally un-fun, she proceeded to live in 6 different countries across three continents taking jobs as an assistant editor, a live-in nanny, an English teacher, a university administrator, and a full-time dog walker. These temporary occupations allowed her time to pursue a patchwork education in circus across various institutions including Circus Warehouse (NYC), Circus Oz (Melbourne), and Centro Acrobatico Fedriani (Madrid), alongside participation in innumerable private lessons, workshops, and festivals which combined made up her 'self-directed degree in circus.'

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Specialisation

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While she's tried her hand at just about everything, aerial hoop is Jenny's primary discipline. While working with Disney in 2022, she went viral for her work on aerial spiral, and has been falling deeper in love with this most supremely inconvenient apparatus ever since. In 2021, she co-created a hoop/spiral hybrid apparatus 'the infineight,' in collaboration with metalworker Tim Omspach. And while she'll always have a soft spot for circles, Jenny is at home dancing on steel of any shape.

 

Jenny has also had the enormous privilege of learning vertical dance with industry titans such as Amelia Rudolph, Roel Seeber, Lindsey Butcher, and Magalie Lanriot, and looks forward to incorporating more harness work into her practice. She has also performed spanish web, aerial chains, hula hoops, duo straps, and flying pole. She might do verticals if you pay her a lot of money, and she is determined to have a handstand act by age 40.

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When not away on a performance contract, Jenny's home base is on the west coast of Ireland, where she performs with Irish companies, teaches occasional intensives, and creates her own work supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, as well as her beloved team over on Patreon.