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Circus production company founded by award winning aerialists Elsie & Serenity Smith. |  | |
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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Nimble Arts was founded by Elsie & Serenity Smith, identical twins specializing in aerial acrobatics. Their teaching & performing backgrounds include a 4 year tour on Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco, as well as Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, Circus of the Kids, the New Pickle Circus, Pilobolus, the Actor's Gym, Circus Juventus, Umo Ensemble & Canopy Aerial Dance Studio. As performers 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.
The twins choreograph for circus, dance & theater and offer workshops and residencies to circus schools, dance companies and performers. As teachers, Serenity helped found the San Francisco School of Circus Arts & was Pilates captain for Saltimbanco where she worked closely with physical therapists to promote injury prevention & rehabilitation. Elsie taught aerials at the SFSCA, has a coach's certification in trampoline, & has choreographed for the UGA Dance department, Circus Smirkus & Sea World, among others.
In 2003 they founded NIMBLE ARTS their Vermont based trapeze & circus school that transitioned into the New England Center for Circus Arts in 2007. 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 for their duo trapeze act at the International Festival of Circus in Albacete, Spain.
The two continue to teach at NECCA and work as Artistic Director and Executive Director of the growing school as well as perform regularly with their company, Nimble Arts.
For circus school information please visit
www.necenterforcircusarts.org.
For information on their classes, please call (802) 254-9780.
Featured Aerialist in Boston on Gig Salad
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The talents of Nimble Arts were the icing on the cake at our event last night. . . .such a pleasure to work with. Thank you for working with me through all lthe drama and confusion. It wouldn't have been the same without them.
Judy, Nashoba Brooks School, fundraising committee chair
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