MICHELLE ROSS
Circus Artist - Theatre Maker - Dramaturg
Michelle as a performer
Michelle performs a wide range of disciplines. From Acting, to Dance, to Circus, Michelle has experience with all three. She had a speaking role in "No Show" and the "Circulate" project and has since created work using text alongside her movement skills.
Michelle performs floor-based acrobatics, Hair-hanging, Chinese Pole and some group acrobatics and general circus skills. She has a background in dance and likes to fuse her dance and circus work together, often ending up in works that would be defined as physical theatre.
Michelle is a gifted performer, settling into a variety of roles and brings an added vibrancy to a work with her keen creative eye and giving nature.
Michelle's credits:
So Far So Good - Superfan Performance - May/June 2024
Commissioned by Imaginate in partnership with Aberdeen Performing Arts and in association with Platform. Supported by the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo Fund.
So Far So Good is an adventurous new contemporary circus show for early years. Three performers use daring acrobatics to explore flying, falling, steep places, precipices and the sharp rocks you come across on the way up.
Image by Brian Hartley
Night Night by Helen Anderson - October 2023
A Halloween show based around nightmares, Michelle is a woman trapped inside a ball where no-one can hear her scream.
Michelle performed Dance (trapped), Flying Trapeze (bats) and Chinese Pole (falling teeth) in this show.
Hangwire Scratch Night - March 2023
Michelle performed a short piece - fusing theatre and hair-hanging - exploring the phrase "Time flows in strange ways on Sundays" from the book 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
Image by Steve Gregson
Nosedive by Superfan Performance - 2019
Winner of the Barbican's Samuel Beckett award.
"A child climbs onto an adult’s shoulders and they look out. They see hope. They see destruction. One generation after another reaches higher, sees further, hurtling toward a future they can’t control."
Michelle was an ensemble member in this acrobatic show.
Image by Brian Hartley
Cirqulation Cabaret: POWER - Delighters Circus Theatre - March 2024
A cabaret evening in which Michelle performers her solo hair-hanging act amongst a variety of other Scottish artists both emerging and professional. A showcase of Scottish art which was funded by Creative Scotland.
Image by Chantal Guevara Photography
Waiting... by Michelle Ross - August 2023
Michelle performed character clowning work, aerial rope, hair-handing, dance, and acrobatics in this 40 minute solo work.
Circulate - January 2023
Michelle was part of a project that saw her work as a circus artist, alongside three actors, directed by a theatre director to realize a script by a playwright using working methods from both circus and theatre.
Image by Alex Brenner
No Show by Ellie Dubois - 2016-2019
"Ellie Dubois’ No Show has been awarded a Herald Angel Award – the production joyously and heartbreakingly reveals what lies hidden beneath the showmanship of circus. What do you expect when you go to the circus? The greatest show on earth?" - Theatre Weekly 2017
Michelle performed dance and acrobatics in this ensemble show.
Image by Chris Reynolds
