Artletic Science

🎭Thank you to & .con_ed for the invitation to create and teach this course for the performing arts fellowship curriculum. It was great to also invite the community and to have a group of physical therapists and students new to the circus arts. The need for healthcare providers with an understanding of the demands of circus training and performing is great.

🎪We dove into the details around physiologic and biomechanical demands of various circus disciplines, discussed case examples and heard artist perspectives. A special thank you to for joining us and sharing your experience!

🤸🏽‍♀️Participants also got a feel for being upside down and hanging while considering alignment and muscle activation and went through clinical examination and exercises in the context of different groups of circus disciplines.

It was full and fun day and also a treat to be back in the place I started my physical therapy training!

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Thanks to and the Performing Arts Special Interest Group for having us at the Combined Sections Meeting in Anaheim! It was such a pleasure and privilege to present the new guidelines for concussion management in dance and circus arts with and ! We appreciate everyone that got up early on a Saturday to join us! The recording will be available starting March 1st for conference registrants.

It was also amazing to reconnect with my professors, mentors, colleagues and former students all in one place!

And so lucky to finish the trip off with a little Valentines Day celebration courtesy of and a couple days with my family and some friends at ! The celebration of the Lunar New Year and the diversity of our community at was especially meaningful!

Skip to the end of Chapter 12 in “An International Circus Affair” for a spotlight on Pickle Family Circus clown, Diane “Pino” Wasnak and the story of how Master Lu Yi chose to pass on his bike act to her in 1990. This was an act tossing bowls on a bike. One he created and performed first in China.

Pino spent 8 hours a day, 7 days a week learning to ride the bicycle backwards in a circle for a 1000 circles each time. Next came learning to kick metal bowls onto her head while riding the bike backwards.

It took 2 years to get this act to performance level and she went on to perform this act all over the world for more than 25 years. When Diane retired from this act, she passed it on to .quesada, a San Francisco Youth Circus alumni who was also trained by Lu Yi and Xia Ke Min. Ori premiered this act a few months ago with .