With an ineffable hang for movement, Mimi has travelled around the world to perform and build her craft. To Mimi, aerial dance is action painting, sheer life experienced through energy in motion, with space, physics and rhythm as its main ingredients. She draws from her background with dance and yoga as a way to create circus performance.

Mimi landed (or flew) into the circus tent through a serendipitous encounter in 2014 and is a graduate of the Pro-Track Program at Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance in Boulder, Colorado. Upon graduating she was invited to work with Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Professional Company where she choreographed, performed and taught aerial dance. Currently, her aerial home is in Coralville, Iowa at National Dance Academy.

A lifelong dedicated movement practitioner, she considers movement her first language and most natural approach of communicating and understanding the world.  After 20 years of training on the ground, she found aerial dance as a way to reshape body language and composition in the vertical space. Her approach as a performer is greatly influenced by twenty years of dance training, classical music training and her background as a yoga practitioner and teacher.

As a performer, Mimi will work with clients to figure out the best performance format for the venue, audience & budget, typically ambient or solo aerial act or a mix of each formatted to the event’s theme.

Mimi’s work has been seen across the world, in cabarets, circuses, dance festivals, television and site-based performances with projects in Ireland, Mexico and the United States. She continues to create her own aerial work as well as participate in cross-disciplinary projects. Most recently she performed in Butoh choreographer Tadashi Endo’s work, Ohaka in Oaxaca, MX and as Clara in the circus rendition of the Nutcracker in Charlotte, NC. Her passion for improvised based work drives her creativity, allowing her to express the freedom of aerial dance and the spectacle of theatrical circus.