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Articulation is a network of people and organisations working across areas of Outdoor Arts, Circus and Spectacle in Scotland. Explore our current members or find out more about how you can get involved.

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Aerial Edge

Education

Organisation • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus

Aerial Edge has been Glasgow’s circus school since 2007, with professional and recreational classes and courses, training sessions and an act creation/rehearsal space – and of course our fabulous flying trapeze. It’s also a fantastic…
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Aerial Edge

Organisation • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus

Education

Aerial Edge has been Glasgow’s circus school since 2007, with professional and recreational classes and courses, training sessions and an act creation/rehearsal space – and of course our fabulous flying trapeze. It’s also a fantastic performance venue and we stage shows throughout the year. Our Pro Track Programmes are set up to allow customised part-time classes and self-training sessions for continuing professional development.

The four-week full-time Circus Intensive and four-month Foundation Course teach a wide range of arts and are designed for people who want to explore their circus potential. Then our One-Year Professional Development Course has been created for those who want to continue to build their skillset with a focus on one or two disciplines. It includes all the supporting classes to develop a well-rounded professional.
There are performance opportunities in all our full-time courses. In the Foundation Course and Professional Development Course, you’ll create and perform a solo/duo act and create an ensemble performance with a professional director.

Circus is for everyone – shape, size, age and experience aren’t barriers. People love the fun and friendly vibe at Aerial Edge, which allows you to explore your potential without fear. Our thriving Youth Circus has a performance pathway as well as student-led sessions where instructors offer guidance on technique while facilitating the freedom to find your own way through movements.

As a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC), we price everything as low as we can so that as many people as possible can find the joy of circus. Youth Circus has a Sponsored Places scheme.

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Mark Gibson

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Digital

Circus performer and teacher, Managing Director and founder of Aerial Edge, Glasgow’s Circus School
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Mark Gibson

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Digital

Performer

Circus performer and teacher, Managing Director and founder of Aerial Edge, Glasgow’s Circus School

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Adrenalism

Producing Company

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Adrenalism is a theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland but make work for everywhere. Our projects are entertaining, accessible and connected to the world we all live in. We believe that the best performances happen…
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Adrenalism

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producing Company

Adrenalism is a theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland but make work for everywhere.

Our projects are entertaining, accessible and connected to the world we all live in.

We believe that the best performances happen with diverse audiences in unexpected places and in unexpected ways.

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Frodo McDaniel

Producer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally. As a Producer, he has led projects…
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Frodo McDaniel

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Producer

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally.

As a Producer, he has led projects all over the world from intimate cabarets to big top spectaculars and massive festivals. He has produced touring theatre and circus, nightclubs, awards ceremonies, charity spectaculars, and corporate events. For 3 years, he programmed and managed The Cabaret Tent for Scotland’s largest music festival, T in the Park and was General Manager of Scotland’s best small music festival, The Kelburn Garden Party for 5 years.

He is also an experienced performer and compère with a critically-acclaimed career as an actor and singer in musical theatre and various bands, as well as a long and varied resume in circus, clowning, and comedy.

As an established playwright, Frodo has written and co-written several plays and is currently creating abridged adaptations of the works of Shakespeare as part of his Bard Abridged series which are availble on Amazon.

As a person with a ‘hidden’ disability, Frodo champions inclusivity and access to all aspects of the Arts in his projects and is always delighted to work with LGBTQIA+ artsts and those who may face barriers to participation in the arts due to cultural background, race, or physical ability.

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Andrew Simpson

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

I am a theatre maker, clown and director based in Glasgow, Scotland. After studying Drama and Physical Theatre in Scotland I trained further in clown, physical and outdoor theatre practices in Poland, Denmark, Italy and…
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Andrew Simpson

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

I am a theatre maker, clown and director based in Glasgow, Scotland. After studying Drama and Physical Theatre in Scotland I trained further in clown, physical and outdoor theatre practices in Poland, Denmark, Italy and the UK.

I work on the assumption that through art we can articulate our experiences, reflect on them and imagine other possibilities. I strongly believe that this process should be accessible, relatable but can also embrace the non-realistic, highly stylised or abstract.

In 2022 I was awarded a Federation of Scottish Theatre Assistant Director Bursary. I currently facilitates a physical theatre class with health & wellbeing charity Nemo Arts.

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Michelle Ross

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Walkabout

Michelle is a Circus Artist with a Masters in Theatre and Performance Practices. She makes bold new work using a blend of circus imagery and theatrical conventions to heighten and expand the meaning and narrative…
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Michelle Ross

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Walkabout

Performer

Michelle is a Circus Artist with a Masters in Theatre and Performance Practices. She makes bold new work using a blend of circus imagery and theatrical conventions to heighten and expand the meaning and narrative of her work.
Michelle’s performance/deviser credits include the “No Show” by Ellie Dubois, “Nosedive” and “So Far So Good” by Superfan Performance, “Coppelia” by feathers of Daedalus, and other freelance creative projects in and around the UK. Michelle has performed her solo acts around the UK, most notably at Glastonbury, in London and in Edinburgh.
Michelle recently created and performed her 40 minute solo piece “Waiting” based on Waiting for Godot, directed the Aerial Edge Foundation Course students ensemble show “The Manor,” and has previously worked as an outside eye and movement director on the award winning “Everything I See I Swallow” by Shasha and Taylor Productions.
Michelle’s work combines Circus and Theatre in an intricate way to bring out the delicate balance between success and failure, and risk and reward, and how these can be used as a metaphor for viewing our internal lives.

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Jamie Wardrop

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Glasgow • Digital

Jamie is a Glasgow based artist, theatre maker, VJ and designer who tours work nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with some of Scotland’s leading artists and presented his own critically acclaimed original work at…
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Jamie Wardrop

Individual • Glasgow • Digital

Artist-Designer-Maker

Jamie is a Glasgow based artist, theatre maker, VJ and designer who tours work nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with some of Scotland’s leading artists and presented his own critically acclaimed original work at major venues and institutions.

He trained as an actor a the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – graduating in 2009.

He has developed a practice in multiple disciplines, practices and genres – defying easy definition – from the music industry to theatre and dance where his work is frequently in demand. He commonly works with digital mediums like 3D Animation, VR, Lighting, Sound, Composing and Film. He has pioneered the use of live VJ techniques and projection mapping in the live performance.

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Michael Gallagher

Performer

Individual • Aberdeen • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus

Currently work for a charity that supports the neurodiverse community. I bring together my interest in juggling, aerial arts and acrobatics with my passion for supporting kids and their families that face the challenges that…
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Michael Gallagher

Individual • Aberdeen • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus

Performer

Currently work for a charity that supports the neurodiverse community. I bring together my interest in juggling, aerial arts and acrobatics with my passion for supporting kids and their families that face the challenges that come along with additional support needs.

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Jusztina Hermann

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Jusztina is an Edinburgh based performance artist and director. She has an MA on Theatre Theory and a Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice, as well as over two decades of experience in circus and street…
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Jusztina Hermann

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Performer

Jusztina is an Edinburgh based performance artist and director. She has an MA on Theatre Theory and a Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice, as well as over two decades of experience in circus and street theatre. Her work combines the diversity of performing arts: physical theatre, circus, dance, puppetry, visuals, music and clowning. Jusztina has been directing and mentoring multi art form performances internationally since 2002 as well as devising her own work with Scottish circus-theatre company Delighters.

As a performance artist she is passionate about creating work for all audiences, from site specific outdoor theatre to black box theatre shows, work created to audiences of all ages to small scale intimate theatre. Her fire-theatre shows were performed internationally at Festa Del Fuoco di Stromboli (Italy), Earagail Arts Festival (Ireland), Galway Arts Festival (Ireland), Sziget Festival (Hungary). As a freelance performer she works with Scottish companies such as Jabuti Theatre, Rowanbank, Circus Alba and Irish landscape theatre company LUXe on a regular basis. She directed and performed with Festa Del Fuoco Ensemble (I), CircusTheatre Production (H), Firebirds (H), Circonnection, ENCI, and Iron Oxide.

She mentors circus artists as well as curates and produces Scotland’s ongoing circus showcase Cirqulation. The event has been running since early 2018 with sold out performances, and after 2019 have been awarded funding from Creative Scotland and the National Lottery Fund.

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Sean Wai Keung

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Spoken Word

Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based food, performance and poetry maker. His work is often centered around community, migration and hospitality, and he loves to play with the idea of economics/exchange in his work. He…
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Sean Wai Keung

Individual • Glasgow • Spoken Word

Performer

Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based food, performance and poetry maker. His work is often centered around community, migration and hospitality, and he loves to play with the idea of economics/exchange in his work. He has worked with organisations including Articulation, the National Theatre of Scotland, Dandelion Festival and Tramway Glasgow, and his debut poetry collection sikfan glaschu was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2021. He loves arranging potlucks and talking about the history of takeaway food in Scotland and beyond.

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Adam Towndrow

Producer

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally. The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work. I am passionate…
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Adam Towndrow

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producer

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally.

The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work.

I am passionate about co-creation and developing work to provide audiences and partipants with lasting and unforgetable experiences.

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Sarah Rose Graber

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, performer, and director. She graduated from Northwestern University in the US and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her current shows include Unicorn…
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Sarah Rose Graber

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker, performer, and director. She graduated from Northwestern University in the US and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her current shows include Unicorn Dance Party, an interactive dance show led by unicorns; Two in a Barrel, a physical theatre show about the waste we create; and The Refs, a family friendly outdoor show where public spaces are turned into one big game. Graber is a Circumnavigator Scholar having traveled around the world to the US, UK, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina researching theatre for social change. She won a Fulbright award to create devised work across the UK, named “One of 15 Women to Watch” in Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine, and shortlisted for the Amazing Women Awards with No.1 Magazine. Her TEDx talk on her research with Serendipity in creative practice has been featured at several events and at universities and she is currently the lead presenter on the YouTube Series, SCOPE, with Imagine Learning. In the UK, she has also worked with Surge, the National Theatre of Scotland, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, Manipulate Arts, Fuel, Tron, the LIFT festival, Scottish Youth Theatre, Imaginate, Starcatchers, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She is Artistic Director of Performance Collective, creating original work and supporting emerging artists across the Dumfries and Galloway region.

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Members

Aerial Edge

Mark Gibson

Adrenalism

Frodo McDaniel

Andrew Simpson

Michelle Ross

Jamie Wardrop

Michael Gallagher

Jusztina Hermann

Sean Wai Keung

Adam Towndrow

Sarah Rose Graber