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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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Freya Pellie

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Multidisciplinary performance artist and coach, specialising in aerial (hoop, rope, lollipop), and peg stilt dance and walkabout. Performed and taught internationally. Worked with traditional touring circus, contemporary circus, social circus, and events. Board member for…
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Freya Pellie

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

Multidisciplinary performance artist and coach, specialising in aerial (hoop, rope, lollipop), and peg stilt dance and walkabout. Performed and taught internationally. Worked with traditional touring circus, contemporary circus, social circus, and events. Board member for Think Circus SCIO. Co-created and regionally toured a 50-minute outdoor circus theatre show in 2023 and looking to expand upon this.

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Chrissie Ardill

Performer

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

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Chrissie Ardill

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

Performer

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Beverley Grant

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Aerial dance theatre performer and assistant director
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Beverley Grant

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Performer

Aerial dance theatre performer and assistant director

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Adam Wright

Performer

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

Aerial artist, acrobat, coach and maker. Special interest in works exploring queerness, gender and neurodiversity.
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Adam Wright

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

Performer

Aerial artist, acrobat, coach and maker. Special interest in works exploring queerness, gender and neurodiversity.

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Suzie Bee

Performer

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus

I am a performer and teacher in aerial arts, and also perform in juggling and fire. Iam multi disciplinary but mainly focus on: hoop, silks, straps, Spanish web, duo work on all apparatus, juggling and…
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Suzie Bee

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus

Performer

I am a performer and teacher in aerial arts, and also perform in juggling and fire. Iam multi disciplinary but mainly focus on: hoop, silks, straps, Spanish web, duo work on all apparatus, juggling and fire.

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Johanna Reid

Performer

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Aerial, Circus

I run the youth program and perform with adventure circus.
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Johanna Reid

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Aerial, Circus

Performer

I run the youth program and perform with adventure circus.

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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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Citymoves Dance Agency

Venue

Organisation • Dance

Citymoves Dance Agency is a venue based dance development organisation based in Aberdeen. We run a programme of daily studio classes, facilitate projects in communities, health and educational settings. We run a residency programme and…
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Citymoves Dance Agency

Organisation • Dance

Venue

Citymoves Dance Agency is a venue based dance development organisation based in Aberdeen. We run a programme of daily studio classes, facilitate projects in communities, health and educational settings. We run a residency programme and produce an annual festival of dance – DanceLive.

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Zinnia Oberski

Performer

Individual • Clowning

Performer and maker Zinnia Oberski has an extensive movement background, predominantly in circus. She uses elements of physical theatre, dance and performance art to break the traditional circus aesthetic of the superhuman and focus on…
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Zinnia Oberski

Individual • Clowning

Performer

Performer and maker Zinnia Oberski has an extensive movement background, predominantly in circus. She uses elements of physical theatre, dance and performance art to break the traditional circus aesthetic of the superhuman and focus on a strength that can only be accessed through vulnerability. Zinnia’s physical work is visceral and hypnotic, speaking directly to the subconscious and the human animal in the language of the body. Zinnia works in a holistic way, treating mind and body as one cohesive entity.

Having come from a background involving hard physical training she looks for balance between strength and softness in both movement and intention – a way of training which challenges the bodymind in a fun and positive way. Zinnia’s creative work is multi-artform and makes use of many different styles and techniques. She takes influence from circus, physical theatre, dance, animal movement, performance art and clown to make authentic work that travels beyond the purely visual. She is currently working on a new clown/bouffon show (FRUITOPIA) and touring her solo aerial show Dreams of the Small Gods in Scandinavia and northern Europe.

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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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An Lanntair Arts Centre

Venue

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre

An Lanntair is a hub for creativity and the Arts in the Outer Hebrides. We are a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, a theatre, a cinema,…
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An Lanntair Arts Centre

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre

Venue

An Lanntair is a hub for creativity and the Arts in the Outer Hebrides. We are a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, a theatre, a cinema, a dance studio, a concert hall, a platform for poetry and literature, a studio, youth arts projects and festivals– every space stretched to showcase the Arts in multiple forms. Our work stretches across a national and international platform, yet our distinctiveness lies in being ‘of the place’, rooted in who we are, and the creativity of Gaelic and the Outer Hebrides takes centre stage.

Our mission is “to connect and inspire people in producing extraordinary, creative programmes, uniquely rooted in the place and reflecting the Arts and ideas of our time

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Jennifer Paterson

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

I originally trained in dance before being persuaded to take my feet off the ground and try aerial arts. From there I was sold and performed internationally in aerial and dance for several UK &…
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Jennifer Paterson

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Artist-Designer-Maker

I originally trained in dance before being persuaded to take my feet off the ground and try aerial arts. From there I was sold and performed internationally in aerial and dance for several UK & Irish Companies, directors, and in large scale events for over 20 years.
Currently I am Artistic Director of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, a company founded in Edinburgh in 2006. I direct and choreograph the majority of the company’s work including many outdoor performances. Also create opportunties to experience aerial at all levels and develop talent pathways for both those in the recreational and professional sector.
Outwith All or Nothing I mentor, teach and work as an aerial director, choreographer and advisor with a variety of companies across the arts sector.

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Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education

Education

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Walkabout

Rowanbank is an award winning social enterprise, that creates unique outdoor experiences, that inspire and delight participants throughout the UK and beyond. From shows in urban woodlands and remote beaches to climate wellbeing workshops, we…
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Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Walkabout

Education

Rowanbank is an award winning social enterprise, that creates unique outdoor experiences, that inspire and delight participants throughout the UK and beyond. From shows in urban woodlands and remote beaches to climate wellbeing workshops, we specialise in making creative environmental education accessible to all, using the arts as a catalyst for change and climate justice.

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Story Wagon

Producing Company

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Touring Story Sanctuary , a space for everybody’s stories. Making a place for writing and storytelling in outdoor public spaces.
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Story Wagon

Organisation • Clowning, Physical Performance, Spoken Word, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Producing Company

Touring Story Sanctuary , a space for everybody’s stories. Making a place for writing and storytelling in outdoor public spaces.

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Jamie Wardrop

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art

I am a Glasgow-based artist, designer, and technician working nationally and internationally across theatre, music, dance, outdoor events, and visual art projects. Originally I trained as an actor and I now specialise in immersive practices,…
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Jamie Wardrop

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Digital, Installation, Light Art

Artist-Designer-Maker

I am a Glasgow-based artist, designer, and technician working nationally and internationally across theatre, music, dance, outdoor events, and visual art projects. Originally I trained as an actor and I now specialise in immersive practices, VR, digital design, projection mapping, 3D art, and installation work.

As a VJ and live video artist, I create visual shows for the main stages of festivals such as Creamfields and Riverside Festival, as well as for club nights. I am experienced in complex LED stage design layouts and producing original live visual content for artists such as Lewis Capaldi, Faithless, Basement Jaxx, and Simple Minds.

I also work as a video, lighting, and sound designer for companies including the National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep, and Marc Brew & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. . My work also extends to large-scale projection mapping of buildings such as Paisley Halloween, Articulate Cultural Trust, and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party.

Recently, my personal projects have explored ecological themes, such as Strange Loop, an outdoor immersive installation in collaboration with artist Sita Pieraccini. In this work, participants collect local plants, which are used to create live compositions projected back onto the landscape using digital microscopes. Strange Loop has been performed at Kelburn Festival, Platform in Easterhouse, Galoshins Festival, and Dandelion Festival.

I am currently undertaking a year-long residency with Refractive Paisley (2024/2025), researching how digital art can communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. This includes mentoring local artists and culminating in a projection-mapped outdoor exhibition on Paisley High Street.

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Manipulate Arts

Festival

Organisation • Edinburgh • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Digital, Installation, Other, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

The mission of Manipulate Arts is to champion, develop and present brilliant animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally. Formerly known as Puppet Animation Scotland, all of our work is focused around…
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Manipulate Arts

Organisation • Edinburgh • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Dance, Digital, Installation, Other, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Festival

The mission of Manipulate Arts is to champion, develop and present brilliant animated film, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland and internationally.

Formerly known as Puppet Animation Scotland, all of our work is focused around artforms which breathe life into the inanimate or tell stories using primarily images rather than text. Play and manipulation are at the heart of all the work that we champion and support – whether of puppets, objects, digital imagery, or of the human body. We believe that the common thread between these artforms lies in the opportunities they create to discover the latent magic in the everyday, to find common visual languages beyond the reach of words, and to enable play at all stages of our lives.

Our aims are:

To establish Scotland’s reputation, locally, nationally and internationally, as a place where puppetry, visual theatre and animated film are thriving.
To ensure that people all across Scotland have the opportunity to enrich their lives through visually-led performance, film and creativity.
To support a vibrant and empowered artistic community in Scotland, enabling independent artists to thrive in their practice.

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Hannah Wright

Educator

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

I am a freelance aerial and circus teacher in a variety of disciplines including trapeze, silks, and hoop and various circus toy box props including hula hoop and (very simple!) juggling. Occasionally I perform in…
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Hannah Wright

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Educator

I am a freelance aerial and circus teacher in a variety of disciplines including trapeze, silks, and hoop and various circus toy box props including hula hoop and (very simple!) juggling.

Occasionally I perform in circus and physical theatre shows or with walkabout acts. Most recently I have performed at Beamish Halloween Nights as a hanged witch and as a walkabout moth stilts character at a wellbeing festival in Whitehaven. I have also worked with companies to devise full-length circus shows including an environmental show with Matrix Circus that we took to Eden Festival and a retelling of The Odyssey with Let’s Circus that we toured to various venues including Stockton International Riverside Festival.

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Iga Sobieraj

Performer

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

I am fire artist, LED lights performer, stilt walker, silks fans dancer and workshop leader. I also do partner acrobatic and acrobatics with fire element I perform on multiple events doing focused shows, street performances…
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Iga Sobieraj

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

Performer

I am fire artist, LED lights performer, stilt walker, silks fans dancer and workshop leader. I also do partner acrobatic and acrobatics with fire element I perform on multiple events doing focused shows, street performances and walkabouts. I teach how to dance with fire, with silks fans or run circus workshops.

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Linda Brownlee

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Dundee • Street Theatre

Lindabee Draws Dundee! I love our city. I use collage and pen to create vistas of our well loved iconic buildings. I like to cycle into town on my vintage pimped trike to draw outside…
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Linda Brownlee

Individual • Dundee • Street Theatre

Artist-Designer-Maker

Lindabee Draws Dundee! I love our city. I use collage and pen to create vistas of our well loved iconic buildings. I like to cycle into town on my vintage pimped trike to draw outside on the street. It helps me socialise, get feedback on my work and add a bit of sparkle to the day for those Dundoniains who still use the high street! I’d love to create more street art events and have a few ideas on how to do this!

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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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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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Senua Wolf

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

I am a fire performer with experience working many festivals, public and private events. I specialise in fire poi, fire dart, fire fans, palm torches and fire eating. I also work with LED versions of…
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Senua Wolf

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Performer

I am a fire performer with experience working many festivals, public and private events. I specialise in fire poi, fire dart, fire fans, palm torches and fire eating. I also work with LED versions of poi and rope dart.

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Imogen Michel

Other

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Digital

Aerial Performance Rigger and IRATA L3 Rope Access Supervisor
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Imogen Michel

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Digital

Other

Aerial Performance Rigger and IRATA L3 Rope Access Supervisor

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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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