Instructors

Tanya Richards

Tanya Richards has been involved in the circus arts industry for 11 years and has been working as a professional freelance performer for 8. She has trained with groups such as ATYP, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Acrobat and Aerialize. Tanya has performed and tutored for companies such as Out of the Blue (a Blue Mountain’s youth perforating Arts Company), ERTH, ATYP, Circo-Bluto; Upper Mountains Youth Circus, and is currently working for Aerialize Sydney Aerial Theatre. She also founded the Lower Blue Mountains youth circus ‘Zany Yare’ in 2000 and continues to run the performance troupe.

Alongside her career as a freelance circus performer, Tanya Richards’ works as a contemporary artist whose current art practice revolves around video, performance and installation art. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honours First Class at the University of Western Sydney and is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Creative Arts also at University of Western Sydney. Richards has been exhibiting since 2000 and has exhibited at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, Artspace and internationally at Singaporean gallery Substation. She has also exhibited in a variety of artist run spaces such as Don’t Look Gallery, First Draft, Space Three and Vanishing Point.

Email	tinkavim@hotmail.com

Tahmour Kate Bloomfield

Tahmour is a circus performer and trainer specialising in hula-hoops, juggling, acrobatics and clowning. While she was completing a Bachelor of Arts in Drama / Film she spent a lot of time juggling. Was this purely for the distraction or did it have some deeper cause? The answer is clear to see! 7 years on she is still juggling and circusing her way around Oz and the world! In between finding time to share the things she has learnt over time with new circus keen beans.

Currently Tahmour tours two shows, one in schools to regional Australia, and the other to streets and festivals all over the world!

Some of her favourite projects have been; touring with a clown show in Guatemala educating about HIV; school and charity clown shows in India and Honduras; and busking at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, and in Belgium and Norway.

Web	http://www.ballshoopsandfruitloops.com.au/
Email	tahmour@ballshoopsandfruitloops.com.au