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NIMBLE ARTS: Circus Acts & Circus Productions |  | |
Nimble Arts was founded by award winning aerialists Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion, identical twins who specialize in aerial acrobatics.
Elsie & Serenity's performing resumes include Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey, New Pickle Circus, Cirque Le Masque, and numerous corporate and event planner clients. Their gigs take them around the world as they present a duo trapeze and duo fabric act, as well as various solos on aerial apparatus. Serenity also performs a partner handbalancing act with her husband, Bill Forchion.
In 2003 the sisters founded NIMBLE ARTS as their performance company representing themselves and a small group of high level performers who they book for events locally and around the world. Among their honors as performers and businesswomen, the sisters won a business plan competition in 2006 for their work with Nimble Arts within the Brattleboro community and have been invited to arts & business consultations with Governor Jim Douglas. In 2008 and the twins received a Special Award at the Wuqiao International Circus Festival in China, an invitaion only competition. And in 2009 they won a Bronze Medal at the International Festival of Circus in Albacete, Spain.
The twins choreograph and teach for circus, dance & theater companies and offer workshops and residencies to circus schools. Serenity helped found San Francisco's Circus Center & was Pilates captain for Saltimbanco where she worked closely with physical therapists to promote injury prevention & rehabilitation. Elsie has a coach's certification in trampoline & has choreographed for the UGA Dance department, Circus Smirkus, Umo Ensemble, Pilobolus & Sea World, among others.
In 2007 they founded the New England Center for Circus Arts which is their Brattleboro based circus school for recreational and professional students. The two continue to teach at NECCA which is a not for profit organization, as well as perform regularly.
For circus school information please visit
www.necenterforcircusarts.org.
For information on their classes, please call (802) 254-9780.
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Featured Aerialist in Boston on Gig Salad
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Elsie & Serenity, along with Serenity's husband Bill and many other top acrobats and aerialists, are featured in a new photography book by world renowned photographer Acey Harper!
Private Acts: The Acrobat Sublime
At your local bookstore or
www.amazon.com.
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If you haven't seen their show, you should. This is the real deal.
Jacques Rapide, Paris Times
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