2022 Moisture Festival: Opening March 17

ARCHIVE: COMEDY/VARIETÉ PERFORMERS

These are some of the artists who have graced the Moisture Festival’s stages over the years.  For a list of artists who will be appearing at this year’s festival, click here.

To book an artist for your event, please contact them directly.  Opening their bio will, in most cases, provide a website link.

Please note that the biographies that appear on this page have not been updated since the artist last appeared at Moisture Festival, which in some cases may have been many years ago.  Therefore, some of these acts may no longer be performing, and some links to the performers’ websites may no longer be current. 

A Girl in the Sky

International aerialist, Rebecca Leonard, from A Girl In The Sky Productions is sought after for her strength, grace and humor. Her fusion of theater and aerial arts has fueled her...

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A Unicycle Built For Two

Nick & Wendy Harden are A Unicycle Built for Two. They bring together the unicycle, acrobatics, and light-hearted romance. The Seattle Met called their act a “can’t-miss.” Time Out New...

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Aadams Family

This mother/daughter aerial team are frighteningly good at what they do. Mortuaria (Martha Enson) and Tuesday (Ruby Joyce) Aadams will amaze and astound even while they worry us with their...

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Abigail Munn

Abigail is an accomplished and versatile dancer, choreographer, trapeze artist and club passer as well as the executive director of Circus Bella, the San Francisco Bay Area’s one ring circus, and winner...

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Acrobatic Conundrum

Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company, is led by Artistic Director and Co-founder, Terry Crane who has been described as an expert at vertical rope and practitioner of...

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AcroBritt

Brittany Walsh, a.k.a. AcroBritt, is a world record holder in acrobatic archery and has been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not featured an...

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Adrienne Jack-Sands

Adrienne Jack-Sands has been involved in performance art since childhood, playing violin from age six and viola since she was 12. At the American Ballet Theatre school in New York...

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Aerialistas

The Aerialistas are the original aerial girl gang! These inventive and skilled artists are dedicated to bringing glamour, excitement and flirty fun to aerial performance. Poppy Daze, Lillian Dish, Viola...

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AerLift

AerLift is a spectacular one-of-a-kind yearly show presented by the aerial community to raise funds for organizations working with populations in extreme poverty. All of the performers and staff donate...

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Aga-Boom

AGA-BOOM is rooted in the unique European theatrical style and universal language of clowning, it cuts through the barriers of language and culture with the art of slapstick, the humor...

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Aileen Wilkie

Aileen has been described as one of the most experienced street performers in the world. She’s also been described as gentle and charming as well as amazing and anarchic. Another...

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Aislinn

Aislinn Mulligan began with competitive artistic gymnastics at age 4 and then after competing internationally she turned her focus to dance and theatre training, competing as a finalist at the...

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AJ Silver

AJ Silver combines trick roping, bullwhip artistry, boleadoras and humor to create a high energy western variety act. With his whips ropes and bolas flying through the air, he presents...

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Al Simmons

In the tradition of the great comedy kings, Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and Jimmy Durante comes Al Simmons – a man dedicated to the all but lost art of combining...

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Alan Plotkin

Alan Plotkin is a member of the Moisture family. He is never on stage but he and his video camera have been welcome audience members for many years now and...

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Alberto Del Campo

Alberto Del Campo, a remarkable and versatile acrobat, is leaving the show he works in in Las Vegas, the famous Le Rêve show at the Wynn Hotel, just long enough...

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Alchemy Tap Project

Seattle’s own Alchemy Tap Project was founded in 2012 on the principle that neither percussion nor dance is restricted to one style of music. Featuring choreography to everything from jazz...

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Alex Allan

Alex Allan is an Aerialist and Dancer from Sydney, Australia. In 2008 he completed a BA in Communications (Theatre/Media) with a focus in physical theatre creation. 6 months later Alex...

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Alex Bistrevsky

Alex Bistrevsky is a Los Angeles based comedy performer & variety circus entertainer specializing in: Circus street performance, ambient roaming entertainment for live events, custom-tailored acts for stage shows, live...

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Alex Feldman

Alex Feldman is an accidental expert at getting by with few words. His TEDx talk, Primal Talk  is all about not talking. He performs in many countries where speaking English...

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Alex Kelly

Dr. Alex Kelly is a cellist, composer, producer and professor.  He composes and performs with a variety of ensembles ranging from major symphony orchestras, new music ensembles, world music ensembles,...

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Alex Oliva

Alex Oliva is a circus and movement artist based in Boston, MA. He specializes in aerial straps and Cyr wheel and always seeks to push the boundaries of circus with...

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Alex Zerbe

With the energy of 1,000 suns, The Zaniac shines like a comedy beacon as he bounces from one end of the stage to the other like an untamed rubber band....

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Alexander Makardish

Alexander Mak Commedia dell’Arte, puppetry, music, clown, mask-making, stage, and screen acting, Alexander Makardish has indeed taken his talents & training in several directions and this year we are pleased...

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Alexis Levillon

Alexis Levillon from Harelbeke, Belgium started with the diabolo when he was 20 years old during a student party. He found ways to practice diabolo and eventually focused on the...

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Alfredo Fettuccini

The wonderful magic of Alfredo Fettuccini is evanescent and fleeting. It appears in this world only rarely and after great lapses of time, like Northern Lights, or Black Jack Gum,...

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Alicia Cutaia

Alicia Cutaia is a celebrated dancer, instructor, choreographer, fire performer, and harness aerialist based in Portland, Oregon. She also is Founder and Artistic Director of ARC in Movement LLC, an innovative...

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Allez-OOPS

Allez-OOPS! brings back classic vaudeville acts with a comic twist. Married duo Rob & Miss Jane invites the audience to play with them as they dance on glass wine bottles,...

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Allie Cooper

Allie Cooper began learning the fundamentals of aerial work in Santa cruz, California in 2008. Her honest style has developed to utilize momentum and natural pathways and to embrace functionality....

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Amanda Crockett

Amanda Crockett started clowning alongside her father at age 9, learning the delicate art of making people laugh. Since then, her pursuit of the perfect blend of circus and physical...

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Amanda Huotari

Whether she’s being tormented by a box of chocolates, or is tied to the train tracks awaiting her doom, only the audience can save her. At the age of 13,...

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Amy Denio

A pacifist, practitioner of non-violence, and proud member of the ACLU, Amy Denio (rhymes with ‘Ohio’ or ‘gennaio’) is a multi-instrumentalist composer and singer based in Seattle. She’s been creating...

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Amy Engelhardt

AMY ENGELHARDT fell in love with the Pacific Northwest as the sole female member of Grammy-nominated, Seattle-based vocal quartet The Bobs from 1998-2011. And as Mother Superior of the (satanic)...

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Amy Funbuttons

Amy is an aerial inferno, heating up stages in the Seattle area for over 7 years. She can’t wait to ignite your fire on the Moisture Festival stage to produce...

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Amy G

Amy Gordon is a revolutionary comedienne (she spins around a lot, anyway). The granddaughter of The Little Giant, a vaudevillian acrobat/ukulele playing song and dance man of little renown but...

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Amy Nash

Amy Nash is a multi-skilled, professional circus performer from Denver, CO with years of experience touring traditional circuses around the world. Some of her contracts included tours in England, Indonesia,...

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An Apple A Day

Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy, Esq.) This theatrical aerial clown duo has been creating and performing together for 25 years. Janet studied with M. LeCoq at Ecoles...

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Anastasiia Popsulis

Anastasia Popsulis is originally from Ukraine, She left before the war started and performed with a Ukrainian circus show in Basel, Germany. There, she worked with the help of Ukrainian...

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Andrey Moraru

Andrey Moraru studied at Kiev State College of Circus and Variety Art in Ukraine. During his 4 years there, Andrey was taught by Vitold Kuvshinov, a renowned balance teacher. In...

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Anesidora

Stunning manipulation of physical reality by a mere mortal or are her powers of a higher order? Experts disagree.

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Anne Uendo and Dudley Entendre

As you expected from Moisture Festival, this act will deliver just what you wouldn’t expect. Plays like a god, sings like an angel, with songs that bedevil.

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Anni Küpper

Anni is professional juggler and performer. Her acts inspire international audiences around the United States, and Europe as well as Japan, Singapore, Israel and Gabon. Originally born in Bonn, Germany...

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Apex Diabolo

Apex Diabolo is a Diabolo/Chinese Yo-Yo performance group based in the Seattle/King County area of Washington state. They have performed in and around the Seattle area as well as Richmond...

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Ariana-Ferber Carter

Ariana Ferber-Carter debuted with Circus Smirkus, going on to specialize in contortion at New England Center for Circus Arts and San Francisco Circus Center.  She has performed with Circus Bella,...

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Ariele Ebacher

Ariele Ebacher elevates the art of tight wire, one moment gracefully gliding across the wire and the next moment kicking off her heels (literally) and breaking out in dance. She...

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Armitage Shanks

Performer, artist, and educator, David Crellin has been performing internationally for over 20 years, and as part of the Moisture Festival family for over a dozen, first as Ringmaster Armitage...

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Arne Bystrom

Arne Bystrom is one of the premier jugglers in the Pacific Northwest. Arne performed in productions in Quebec City, Chile, toured New England with Circus Smirkus, and performed for a...

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Arsene Dupin

Arsene Dupin will perform at the 2018 Moisture Festival with his partner Magical Mystical Michael … they will perform as The Mouth Brothers … please check their bio under that...

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Arthur Migliazza

Award winning Blues and Boogie Woogie pianist Arthur Migliazza began playing the piano professionally at the age of 13. In his 20+ years of performing Arthur has played on some...

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Artis

He’ll deny it (probably from the stage) but he’s a living legend. He turned a charming folksy household percussion instrument, musical spoons, into a performance that blew David Letterman away...

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Ashia

blues, and pop/punk . “Pay to be Loved”, her debut album, is described as “exuding a dark outlook that recalls Tom Waits and Edith Piaf…her probing lyrics on the underbelly...

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Avery Cherie

Avery joined Circus Juventas in Minnesota in the summer of 2005 at the age of 11, and immediately fell in love with circus performing. As a former soccer player, dancer...

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Avery Cluff

Avery has been climbing things since before she could walk, so it is no surprise that she fell in love with aerial arts early on. She grew up in Oakland,...

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Avi and Alexander

Avi Kritzman is an award winning circus artist and foot juggler from the Chicago Area. Avi fell in love with the circus at the age of 23, immediately after his...

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Aviatrix

Aviatrix has presented some stunning aerial displays for Moisture Festival and this year will be no exception. Hailing from various local aerial groups (The Aerialistas, The Velone Sisters, and The...

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Avner the Eccentric

Avner Eisenberg was one of a handful of performers, including The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Penn and Teller, and Bill Irwin, who arrived on and off Broadway in the early 1980s...

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B.F. Day School

The annual spring effort by the Fremont and greater Seattle community to support the arts-rich B.F. Day School is and has been our concern as well. Moisture Festival organizers and...

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Baby Gramps

According to an article in the special issue City of Music in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the...

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Bang-Bang Boys

The Bang-Bang Boys are a relatively new comedy team made up of absolutely wonderful seasoned performers. In the late 1980s Jean-Michel Paré and David Aiken discussed doing a show together....

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Baudboys

The Baudboys are current and former Microsoft employees who have sung great a cappella music for more than 25 years. Besides winning the Pacific NW Harmony Sweepstakes twice, the group...

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Belle Hops

Cathy Sutherland and Martha Enson live to serve. Aerialistas, Royal Famille du Caniveaux, Velone Sisters, Flying Karamazov Brothers, Theatre Schmeatre, the UMO ensemble, Printers Devil Theatre, Aviatrix, EnJoy Productions, the...

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Bellini Twins

“The Bellini Twins take inspired idiocy to new heights” is what Seattle Times wrote about this very unusual act. They have two different fathers but share one mother who was...

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ben nemzer

Ben Nemzer

Ben has a resumé filled with excitement and Fortune 500 clients and has graced the stages of NYC’s longest running off-Broadway magic show, Las Vegas, and at both the world-famous...

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Benedikt Negro

Benedikt Negro is a pantomime and clown who has starred in Cirque du Soleil’s water show, “O”.  He trained at Die Etage School for the Performing Arts in Berlin. Originally...

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Benjamin and Thom and Thom and Benjamin

Benjamin and Thom and Thom and Benjamin

With careers that span from the United States and Canada, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, and all the way to Australia, it’s all been practice for the day they...

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Benjamin Domask-Ruh

Benjamin Domask-Ruh

Benjamin (St. Paul/Minneapolis) is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on live performance’s ability to bring people together and to create memories. He combines his juggler, clown, mime, and musician on-stage into...

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Big Boys with Pois

That’s right, these guys can handle anything that happens, no matter what catastrophe might offer itself they will maintain their poise and stand strong … in the face of …...

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Bill Robison

Bill Robison is a physical comedian. His performances are a synthesis of outlandish comedy, an elastic face, a penchant for the absurd and a reckless sense of abandon. He has...

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Billy Kidd

Billy Kidd has been performing professionally since the age of 11. Her career started as an Actor in Canada performing in theater, film and television. After being accepted into the...

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Billy Oskay

Producer and session player Billy Oskay was born and raised in Kingston, NY, where at age seven he first picked up the violin. Beginning in 1970 he studied under Eugen...

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Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

Vaudeville East meets Vaudeville West when Bindlestiff appears at the Moisture Festival. Since 1995 the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has traveled the world, bringing its unique hybrid of Vaudeville, Circus, Wild...

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Bob and Leah

In the air, Bob and Leah are a perfect fit. Their mutual passion for the aerial arts brings another dimension to their performance. This can be seen in full color...

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Bob Malone

Los Angeles based BOB MALONE plays keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty, and continues a long running and successful solo career. His sound is a one-of-a-kind hybrid of rock, blues,...

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Bobs

The Bobs are taking their last trip around the block. This is not your run-of-the-mill a cappella quartet — not by a long shot. Now in its third decade of...

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Bond Street Theatre

Established in 1976, Bond Street Theatre is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace and cultural understanding through the theatre arts. The company has created theatre-based programs for education, healing,...

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Booby Trap Players

The Boobies have giggled audiences from Seattle to Vegas, while performing new and old burlesque comedy sketches.

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Brad Weston

After training with Second City, Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Ringling Brothers Clown College, Piven Theater Workshop Marcel Marceau-Workshop, Brad Weston developed a set of skills and a stage...

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Brandon Kazen-Maddox

My name is Brandon and I am a lover of kinetic motion. I am here to create a new form of art that I hope will move our world forward...

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Brent McCoy

For the people who are familiar with Moisture Festival, I have to say … Brent comes pretty highly recommended: one publication referred to him this way: “charming, sweet and very...

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Bri Crabtree

Gravity ceases to exist, the “laws” of motion become mere “suggestions,” and the crowd is transported into a world of recaptured wonder with San Francisco performing artist Bri Crabtree. Combining...

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Brian Jones

Tap Dancer Brian Jones has been performing since 1975. Known for his Rhode Island dance company (The All-Tap Revue) and his song-and-dance team with Susan Boyce (Jones & Boyce), and...

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Bridget Gunning

Bridget Gunning comes to circus from a dance and theater background. Her first trapeze explorations were over a decade ago within the Skinner Releasing Technique; inspiration for Bridget’s performance to...

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Bronkar and Cyndi

Bronkar and Cyndi have been a joint creative force since 2001. Their variety show is a high energy, multi-instrumental, rhythmic and comedic journey that combines Bronkar’s percussiveness and awe-inducing skill...

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Bronkar Lee

Internationally acclaimed beatboxer, drummer, juggler, musician, actor, funny man, and circus performer extraordinaire, Bronkar Lee has taken his skills to thousands of colleges, schools, fairs, festivals, corporate events, parties, clubs...

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Brothers from Different Mothers

They were recently voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comics and are also proud Guinness World Record Holders. They perform at over 200 events a year including their own variety show entitled...

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Bruce Wylie

Bruce Wylie is a founding member of the Seattle Mime Theater company. He has created innumerable works during the past 20 years, relishing opportunities as performer, writer, director, choreographer, mask...

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Bunion Sisters

Sadye and Heidi met for the first time at Bellingham Circus Guild’s My Circus Valentine 2016 and began working together on duo trapeze later that year. They sure do love...

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Caela & The Dangerous Flares

Caela Bailey’s sultry lead vocals with Katy Webber, Cathy Sutherland and Mari Finch’s smooth and seductive backup vocals are fire roasted. They’re coming back to the Moisture and they’ll make...

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Caela Bailey

Caela Bailey; the Gutter Queen. Born into the infamous vaudeville troupe The Royal Famille DuCaniveaux, she practically sang her first words in front of an audience and has spent much...

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Caitlin Marion

Caitlin is new to the Moisture festival this year. She says this about her art: Movement and music have been a part of my life since the age of 5...

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Camille Swift

Camille Swift specializes in the savage and the strange. With each new act, she strives to embody both ferocity and finesse and bring to life a new femme farouche (wild/savage...

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Canote Brothers

The Canote Brothers from Seattle, WA, are as renowned for their affable attitudes and humor as they are for their music. Greg on fiddle, and Jere on guitar, and both...

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Carla Petrulli

Carla Petrulli is an Aerial Instructor, Performance Coach, and the Owner of CircusWerks corporate entertainment. Since 2010, Aerialist Carla Petrulli has been performing in and producing circus entertainment throughout Western...

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Carla Ulbrich

Carla Ulbrich is a multitalented comedic singer-songwriter. Known for her love of the absurdities of everyday life and her witty and often twisted perspective, Carla’s songs explore a wide range...

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Caroline Georgia Wright

Caroline Georgia Wright

Caroline (Callie) is a Boston-based aerialist who has performed with companies across the US and internationally including CirquOvation!, Boston Circus Guild and Cirque du Soleil. She is one half of...

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Carri Andersen

Ms Andersen’s grace, elegant athleticism, and memorable beauty, offers audiences the illusion, that she is not earthbound, but could, at will, fly away in a twinkling visit to the Milky...

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Cassady Rose

Cassady Rose Bonjo is a multi-disciplinary circus artist and a creative force of performance and design. Currently based out of New York City, this nation-wide performer has an innovative point...

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Cassandra

Cassandra

Cassandra has made her home on stage since she was a small child, and is her favorite place in the world to be! She creates an unforgettable performances that thrill...

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Cassie Cutler

Growing up in Los Angeles, California, Cassie was always bouncing with energy. She began gymnastics at age 5, and competed until the age of 16. From there, she found circus...

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Cate Great!

What can be said about the Cate Great! Show that isn’t in the name? Cate blends high-end circus with unique comedy. You will be charmed by her wit and astounded...

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Catfish Jack

Harmonica player Catfish Jack (aka Jack Chauvin) grew up in Oakland, California. He was originally inspired by the Chicago blues’ legends Little Walter, James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Big...

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Cathy Sorbo

Cathy began her solo stand-up career in Seattle during the mid-eighties, sporting a variety of unsavory hairdo’s and wearing earrings larger than her own face. San Francisco was the next stop for Cathy, where she cut...

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Cathy Sutherland

Cathy is one of the original Daring Deviante Sisters, a skilled acrobatic duo with an odd sense of humor who brought a new element to the blossoming New Vaudeville scene...

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Chairboy

Too weird to explain, too cool to miss, I will be watching this carefully, again! Sometime around the turn of the century, in between the heydays of the great medicine...

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Chairman Bob

A Chair-Raising Experience! Chairman Bob AKA Flyin’ Bob AKA Bob Palmer is dedicated to exploring and expanding the world’s perception of those ugly white plastic backyard stacking resin patio lawn...

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Chantall

Born into a show biz family on the other side of the Berlin wall, Chantall formed her own sense of style as she trained to be a contortionist. When the...

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2 is the aerial duo of Esther Edelman and Glenn Easley. Esther has over 25 years of choreographing, directing and performing experiences and is a founder of the 4...

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Charlie Brown

If you catch Charlie Brown off stage and you and he have the time, try to get him to tell you a story of his travels. Some of the experiences...

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Charly Castors

Charly was born in the heart of Paris to the fifth generation of his family in show business. Charly and his brothers Toly and Eddy make up the acrobatic trio...

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Charly Castors & Eric Nondsen

Charly and Eric are from a French and Russian family that has been in show business since the 1500s. Several of them still live in Paris near the Moulin Rouge....

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Charly McCreary

Charly McCreary has been dancing in the air since 2001 and has worked and trained with esteemed coaches and choreographers including members of Cirque du Soliel and Cavalia. She is...

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Checkerboard Guy

The Checkerboard Guy (AKA David Aiken), beyond being a snappy dresser and a regular at Moisture Festival also fancies himself a craft brewer and has created a line of beers...

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Chicken Sinatra

Principally bred in the remote wilds of Austria for personal pleasure, a few have seen the sights of Paris, and this one never looked back. During an initial tour of...

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Chip & Margie Sonofa-Gunderson

You’ll be smiling a little bit bigger, laughing a little harder, and your pelvic floor will be a lot tighter after this special guest appearance by Chip & Margie Sonofa-Gunderson....

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Choroloco

Stuart Zobel on seven string guitar, Brandi Ledferd on percussion and Naoyuki Sawada playing Cavaquinho and mandolin … together they are Choroloco! Authentic Brazillian rhythms in the Pacific Northwest. Stuart...

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Christian Swenson

Christian Swenson is a shaman of delight. A solitary performer dreaming out loud in the wilderness of the bodyvoice; he interweaves the mysterious and the obvious with immediacy, power and...

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Christine Lavin

Do you already know who Christine Lavin is? Lots of you do. She joined us at the Moisture Festival a couple of times but if you’re a fan of folk...

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Christopher Phi

Born in and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christopher Phi began theater and gymnastics at the age of 10. He competed in power tumbling throughout high school, twice...

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Cinderella

Seattle’s own Fremont Players present Cinderella in a the British Panto style that is familiar to every grownup who was ever a child in the British Isles or many other...

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Circus Contraption

Seattle’s beloved one-ring circus offers patrons the following: A captivating Carousel of fanciful Fauna Formations! Audaciously effervescent (and smartly dressed) Dancing Girls! Animated Manikins of undisciplined and disorderly demeanor! Masterly...

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Circus Luminescence

Circus Luminescence presents the innovative and gold medal winning duo of Eli March and Scramble James. Their energetic, contemporary vaudeville show includes award-winning partner juggling, breathtaking acrobatics, epic combination tricks,...

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Circus Syzygy

A recent show by Circus Syzygy was described like this: “In an era when technology and information pervade our lives, we are hyper-connected, yet perhaps even our neighbors are utter...

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Cirque en Déroute

Company Cirque en Déroute are clowns specializing in a wide range of eccentric skills including contemporary jar manipulation, tap dance juggling, and high level comedy acrobatics. Using a unique blend...

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City Circus

Sasha Harrington and Chloe Gordon-Murer are San Francisco based performers, with the troupe City Circus. They create doubles aerial acts on tissue, rope, hoop and straps, as well as work...

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Clay Martin’s Puppet Theater

Beginning with a street show in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Clay has now performed in theaters and festivals around the world. A master of all forms of the ancient art...

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Cleo

Chloe started dancing as a child, training in jazz, contemporary, ballet, and partnering. After almost a decade, acro and contortion sparked her interest in circus arts, where she now specializes...

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Cohdi Harrell

Cohdi Harrell is an American born performance maker. A primarily self taught trapeze artist and an untrained dancer, he uses contemporary movement, improvisation and spectacle performance to create intimate environments...

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Colin Creveling

Colin Creveling

Colin Creveling A crafty clown with the flair of an escape artist, he transports you to the mercurial reaches of your imagination. Raised in the heart of the midwest, he...

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Correo Aereo

Pronounced: Core-RAY-o Eye-AIR-e-o Spanish, meaning: Air-Mail… *********************************** Cuz that is how sound travels you know, delivered through the air on waves of sound that penetrate you; not just through the...

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Coventry & Kaluza

Jamie Coventry & Natasha Kaluza were clown school sweethearts and are graduates of both the first and second year programs of the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center....

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Creosote

Creosote is the dynamic accordion duo with renowned Seattle accordionists Jamie Maschler and Gabriel Hall-Rodrigues, together they create original and Brazilian music inspired arrangements with a unique and endearing twist....

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Crockett and Swanson

Shayna Swanson and Amanda Crockett perform their strikingly powerful and unique collaboration on the Aerial Frame. Created in Chicago during the Moisture Festival last year, the act combines the strength...

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Cuream Jackson

As a former collegiate cheerleader, Cuream enjoys the physical demand and creativity that aerial performance brings to his life. It’s no coincidence that after 7 years of training in the...

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Curtis Carlyle

With a style all his own, Curtis fuses world class juggling skills and fresh, innovative comedy. A featured performer with the nationally touring Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theatre, Curtis now...

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Dan Holzman

Through the years the Raspyni Brothers had become Moisture Festival favorites and then Dan Holzman (described sometimes as “the funny one” and sometimes as “the other one”) came back to...

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Dana Lyons

Best known for his global comedy hit “Cows With Guns” which went to #2 on Australia’s Country Charts and remained on Ireland’s Top 40 for six months, Dana Lyons is...

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Dana Smith

Dana Smith has been entertaining the world since 1974 when he got his start with the legendary Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus. After touring nationally he settled into a long...

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Dangerous

DANGEROUS Theatrical Dance & Drag Troupe is really more of a loose association of like minded crimin. . . .uh, creative professionals. We like to think of ourselves as family....

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Daniel Forlano

Daniel was born to a pair of robots in the Virgo Supercluster at the outer limits of the Milky Way Galaxy near a star known locally as the Sun on...

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Daredevil Chicken Club

Join Marc and Svetlana Buttersworth for their ‘Honeymoon Cabaret!’ In the style of Las Vegas lounge meets 80’s pop melodrama this newly-wed couple is here to remind the public that...

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Daring Jones Duo

The Daring Jones Duo of Flynn Creek Circus consists of  David Jones and Blaze Birge. Having trained with  a 5th generation Romanian circus family in the U.K, Blaze and David...

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David & Williams Golden Duo

David Underwood and Williams Rodriguez, Las Vegas acrobatic artists, will present their skillful hand-to-hand acrobatics act. They are longtime professional entertainers and we are so pleased to have them in...

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David Deeble

With appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Last Comic Standing”, David Deeble’s “Unnatural Act” is a whirlwind display of exotic skills laugh-out-loud commentary. He kicks coins into...

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David Nguyen

David is an aerialist known for his dizzying athleticism and charming performance style. Inspired after watching his first ‘boylesque’ circus show in London, David began training with some of San...

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Del Rey

A Seattle treasure. Acoustic Guitar Magazine has said: “Rey is one of the greatest modern players of the metal-bodied resonator guitar.” Del Rey found her niche early on. Let her...

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Del Rey and Steve James

These two powerful exponents of American vernacular song style join forces to make a musical testament to the hillbiilly/smarty-pants/country/blues aesthetic.  Sharing a similar sense of humor and manic intensity, their...

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Della Moustachella

Della Moustachella, a prolific circus and comedic variety performer for over a decade has been a Moisture Festival favorite onstage and backstage. Aside from her solo performing, Della has be...

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Delphinia Spit

Whitney acquired a fancy for brazen vulnerability in utero, whilst gurgling french with one foot behind her head. After returning from two years of school in Paris, she has honed...

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Diane Wasnak (Pino)

In her life long career as a physical comedienne, Diane Wasnak toured for ten years as a clown and acrobat with San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus. Diane has performed internationally...

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Dirty Fred

This is a rare American appearance for Fred. We’re fortunate to be able to make it work. Here’s how Fred tells his life story: Born to a Lutheran minister and...

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Dizzy Calico

This darling daredevil stirs up an aerial cocktail guaranteed to leave audiences reeling! Since joining up with the Aerialistas for Moisture Festival in 2009, Dizzy has swung from rafters in...

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Dizzy Daze

Newfangled Heathen Trapeze from Lara Paxton (Circus Contraption, Aerialistas), and Jill Marissa (ticktock dance). The duo is excited to return to their native Pacific Northwest after spending the winter performing...

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Doc & Stumpy

Doc And Stumpy celebrate the golden age of the vaudeville and burlesque routines that are often forgotten these days. They have been surprising audiences in Las Vegas and Hollywood with...

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Doc Sprinsock & the SANCApators

Doc Sprinsock and the SANCApators are the fabulously eclectic house band for SANCA, the Seattle circus school. When Fabio Sprinsock was born on a cold, gray Seattle morning, he was...

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Don White

Singer/Songwriter/Comedy Storyteller Don White is from Lynn, Massachusetts, “a working class town with an attitude problem”. If you didn’t already know that, he would have let you know when you...

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Dr H P Lovecraft

Master Magician, Medicine Man, Prestidigitateur, Conjurer, Witch Doctor, Wizard, Alchemist, Herbalist, Secular Humorist, Parapsychologist, Master of Tai Klown yo-yo, Certified Public Oracle, Rain-Maker, Ghost Breaker, Soothsayer, Time-traveler for fun and...

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Dr Hexagon

Dr. Hexagon is an MC … Master of Ceremonies … Do we think of our shows as ceremonies? hmmmm, funny you should ask…   Dr. Hexagon has been volunteering for...

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Dr. Calamari & Acrophelia

The good but creepy doctor and his cool-skinned lover are remarkably nimble for those who teeter on the brink of life and death. Dr. Loligo Calamari and Acrophelia (A.K.A. Jason...

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Dr. Lafitte

The good doctor is known in some circles as a Knight of the Green Cloth. These are circles that you would be well advised to avoid if you’re thinking of...

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Dr. Owl

You guys! … Dr. Owl has nearly 100 species of houseplants! Okay, that has nothing to do with the performances that he’ll present at this year’s Moisture Festival. He has...

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Dream & PJ

PJ and Dream have been hoisting each other regularly since 2012. Both passionate about their unique and challenging solo projects, they’ve found it fun and refreshing to combine their complimentary super powers to...

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Dream Frohe

Dream Frohe is an aerialist with a passion for thoughtful and dynamic movement. In essence, she makes a practice of joyfully hoisting herself into improbable positions for the sake of...

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Dream Frohe and PJ Perry

Dream Frohe and PJ Perry

PJ and Dream came together in 2012 and have been hoisting each other regularly ever since. Both passionate about their unique and challenging solo projects, they’ve found it fun and...

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Dream Science Circus

Dream Science Circus of Bellingham, Washington brings their acrobatic and sense of wonder and imagination to communities across the Northwest featuring the collaborations of several skilled individuals. Some of those...

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Drew the Dramatic Fool

“A world-class visual comedian!”—Charleston Gazette ************************************** “Ingenious!”—Chicago Tribune ************************************** “If Teller of Penn & Teller had ever become pregnant by Harpo Marx, Drew Richardson would be the one to arrive...

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Dreya Weber

An acclaimed actress, producer, aerialist, choreographer and musician, Dreya headlined in Teatro ZinZanni’s, Hail Caesar! Gangsters Of Love and When Sparks Fly. She produced and stars in the upcoming feature...

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du Caniveaux Dancing Bears

The bears have been doing their sweet dance number now for almost twenty years and they still don’t have it down. No matter, they’ll have you bending over backwards as...

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Duffy Bishop Band

“She’s dangerous!” is what Bo Diddly said about Duffy Bishop when she shared the stage at his 75th birthday concert at the Crystal Ballroom in Duffy’s home base of Portland...

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Duo A&T

Milla and Julia have a long standing reputation for birthing dazzling absurdities. They both train and coach circus arts out of Seattle while individually following their own unique pursuits. While...

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Duo Avocado

Alyssa Hellrung and Ava Vermilya met several years ago when Ava joined the youth performance troupe that Alyssa coached at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA). In...

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Duo Breathless

Asya and Maxim are both amazing performers on their own, but when teamed up as Duo Breathless they are an incredible partner balancing act! Originally from Ukraine, Asya left before...

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Duo de Luna

Together, Cameron and Marina, as Duo de Luna, relay throughout their movements the duality of light and dark. The duo perfectly represent balance, in the symmetry of their bodies and...

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Duo Emirlo

Duo Emirlo creates aerial duets that invite the audience to experience the joy and connection members Marlo and Emily feel when moving together. Based in Olympia, Washington, Emily and Marlo...

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Duo EnBalance

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Duo Madrona

Ben Wendel and Rachel Nehmer met as biology students at Haverford College. After a successful stint as lab partners, the couple decided to try out a new kind of collaboration–this...

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Duo par Deux

We are Victor De Bouvère and Alexis Levillon, and we are ‘Duo par Deux’. Victor graduated at the circus school CRAC, in France (Lomme) and Alexis is a self-thought diabolist....

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Duo Perspective

Pamela Donohoo has thrilled Moisture Festival audiences in years past. An exquisite aerialist, dancer, acrobat and choreographer she demonstrated her skill and charm at Hale’s Palladium in 2015, helping us...

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Duo Pile ou Face

Philippe Renaud and Shannon Maguire started working together in mid-2014 to create a duo act in the cyr wheel, taking a common solo apparatus and exploring the possibilities and challenges...

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Duo Rendez-vous

Duo Rendez-vous (Graeme and Lori) mesmerize audiences with a rare form of acrobatics called Icarian. What first seems like a whimsical love story where an ordinary gentleman tries to impress...

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Duo Rêves

Internationally acclaimed Duo Rêves is the creative collaboration of Quynbi and Eric Esteb, co-creators of whirlwind aerial/shadow show ‘Into the Dreaming’. Bringing dramatic spectacle and glamorous levity to venues near...

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Duo Ronin

Duo Ronin, currently based out of Las Vegas Nevada, have been working together since 2012 and during that time have been wowing audiences with their feats of strength and balance....

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Duo Rose

The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless flow of highly technical skills and intense passion creates a fluid aerial ballet...

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Duo Sapphire

We are delighted to host performances by Duo Sapphire at the 2018 Moisture Festival. Saffi Watson has astounded our audiences for some years now with her contortion and other presentations...

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Duo Sexy Biscuit

Terry and Hana have been circus partners since the beginning of 2023. Terry is an multi-talented circus performer specializing in ropes while Hana is a trained flyer and hand-balancer. They...

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Duo Shadow

Duo Shadow

DuoShadow (Rachel Barringer & Caroline Wright) has performed with Santa’s Circus, CirqueUs!, and the Boston Circus Guild. Caroline has performed across the US and internationally for many years, including with...

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Duo Vespertilio

Vespertilio is the duo aerial hoop work of Tanya Burka and Sidonie Adamson. Their speciality is dynamic spin work that combines dramatic displays of flexibility and unique porting sequences. The...

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Duo Volta

Duo Volta is performing in Moisture Variete and Burlesque shows this year. To see their the dates of their Burlesque performances, check out their schedule on their bio page under...

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Duo XY

Thomas and Justin met while working on Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” and began to train duo static trapeze. From there they moved to Montreal to further their technique and...

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Dusty Rhodes and her Handsome Cowboy

Do you crave the authentic Western cowpoke experience? The point of view of those who ride the real range and actually work among the herds? Yeah? Why’d you come to...

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EC Flyers

The EC Flyers come to us from Emerald City Trapeze Arts, the Pacific Northwest’s premiere destination for Flying Trapeze, Aerial Arts, and Circus classes. Located just south of downtown Seattle,...

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Eka Boo Button

eka.boo.button is a maverick of quirks and quips and circus tricks. She loves to entertain and beguiles her audience thru a vibrant passion for play. Eka currently resides in San...

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El Gleno Grande

Glenn Singer was born in the year of Sputnik into the home of a rocket scientist, and subsequently raised by dwarves. No matter what humble circumstances he found himself in...

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ElectricBonsaiBand

Electric Bonsai Band

Electric Bonsai Band is neither electric nor a band…it’s actually singer/songwriter Andrew Ratshin, and his acoustic guitar. Best known as a member of, and principal songwriter for, the group Uncle...

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Emma Curtiss

Emma Curtiss is a Seattle based acrobat who specializes in Aerial and Cyr wheel. Emma is a founding member of the IMPulse Circus Collective. She has worked in collaboration with...

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Equilibrium Circus – Paz & Leah

Equilibrium Circus is an award winning duo that specializes in the art of partnering. Paz and Leah are honored to be a part of the 2012 Moisture Festival line-up and...

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Eric Apoe

The experience of Eric Apoe is a walk through a cinematic time capsule, his lyrical masterworks chill the soul and enlighten the mind. Comparisons have ranged from Eric Burden to...

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Eric Esteb

Aerialist, actor, filmmaker, artist, and exactly one-half of Duo Rêves, Eric Esteb is a man of many skills. With credits from Seattle Opera to Royal Caribbean to the 5th Avenue...

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Eric Haines’ One Man Band

Eric Haines is a modern, old-timey, hilarious, beloved, world-traveling one-man band. Haines has appeared on The Gong Show and Dr. Demento, and he’s opened for Weird Al Yankovic, Neal McCoy,...

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Eric James

Eric (he/they) is skilled in diverse artistic expressions: an adept juggler, acrobatic dancer, visual artist, and circus arts teacher. Featured as a juggler in Shoestring Circus, they have also toured...

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Eric Newton

Eric recently finished a 3-year stint in the Cirque du Soleil production Believe at the Luxor in Las Vegas as a principal performer and artist coach. He has performed across...

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Eric Schwartz

Eric Schwartz’s razor sharp, adults-mostly, on-the-spot wit combined with his exceptional musicality have made him a stand-out performer when appearing on the Comedy Central Stage (in Sit’n Spin); with comedy...

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Esther de Monteflores

Esther de Monteflores is an American circus artist, physical performer and choreographer. Esther is one of a tiny handful of circus performers in the USA specializing in slackwire walking. In...

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Esther Edelman

Esther Edelman of UMO fame is performing at this year’s festival as a solo aerialist along with the wonderful Jami Sieber on cello and Esther will join the amazing aerial...

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Eve Diamond

Eve Diamond performs to evoke wonder, spark imagination and ignite the soul of her audience. Her ability to seamlessly entwine beauty and braun are ever present in her work (and...

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Evgeny Vasilenko

Evgeny Vasilenko is the new representative of a renowned circus family. He was born in Moscow, Russia where he attended elementary school. In 1992 he started rehearsal as a circus...

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Ezra Weill

It all started when Ezra’s dad taught him how to juggle; after that there was no stopping him. As a youth he was performing street shows at local Seattle Festivals....

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Ezra Weill & Una Bennett

Ezra Weill and Una Bennett, a brother and sister duo, were born and raised in Seattle. They’ve been active in circus arts for most of their lives and got their...

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Faeble Kievman

Faeble Kievman is an internationally recognized clown, circus artist, and all around weirdly wonderful human. He has performed multiple social circus tours with the Big Underwear Social Tour through Mexico...

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Famiglia Gentile

After 18 years of training and traveling the world teaching, directing, and performing circus Carlo & Orlene are now temporarily semi-long term Seattle residents and Artists-in-Residence at the School of...

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Felicity Hesed

Felicity Hesed is a Clown, Aerialist, and Director.  She delights and surprises viewers with her vibrant characters, technical skill, and audience interaction.  Felicity has developed a unique style of clowning...

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Flying Karamazov Brothers

The Flying Karamazov Brothers are a juggling and comedy troupe who have been performing since 1973. They began by busking, but have gone on to perform internationally, including Broadway stages....

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Foolz

Two performers: one outwardly calm, the other wound tighter than a spring. If there is a dim-witted innocence about them, it’s because their childlike charm permeates their world, placing them...

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Frank Olivier

Frank Olivier developed his unique offbeat humor in San Francisco’s comedy clubs. He was soon sharing the bill with Dana Carvey, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and others. New York producers...

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Frankie Fortune

Frankie’s juggling will astound you but he claims that it’s not so much skill as luck. His patterns change in ways that remind us of notes on a musical scale...

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Fred Garbo’s Inflatable Theater Co.

Fred Garbo and Daielma Santos will bring a taste of their Inflatable Theater Company to the Moisture Festival this year. Fred got paid for doing a card trick in 1974,...

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Freddy Kenton

Freddy Kenton was born to a circus family where, at 16 years of age he joined with his parent’s famous aerial act “The Kentons”. Dutch by birth, they traveled America...

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Fremont Cut

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Fremont Philharmonic Orchestra

Originally the Freiberg Philharmonium, the Fremont Philharmonic couldn’t get a gig in town, as everyone in the little Alsatian town was in the band. Neighboring villages suspected with so much...

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Fresh Air

Aerial, ground, animation … this group has worked for years to hone their art while working also to keep it fresh. We are delighted to have them join our springtime...

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Fuchsia FoXXX

Crowned the “Hot Pink Habanero” by The Stranger and voted “Seattles’ Sexiest Burlesque Performer” (2008) Fuchsia FoXXX is the stand out hybrid of bellydance for the burlesque stage. Entertaining audiences...

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Fugazi

Veterans of Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Brothers, Stephan Choiniere & Lina Tabakova team up to present a new collaboration in an act called Fugazi. this performance has the spectacular...

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Fyodor Karamazov

He spent 20-odd years (some of them very odd) touring the world as a professional juggler with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, then retired to his home in Seattle, his other...

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Gabriela Milillo

A trapeze artist whose work on the static trapeze is almost brazenly straightforward. In short, percussive phrases, she reels off a series of still poses, like a stop-action film, cutting...

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Gazzo

If you have friends who know a little about magic performance, tell them that the British magician Gazzo is coming to Moisture Festival. I can then be silent and let...

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Georgetown Orbits

Georgetown Orbits

The Georgetown Orbits boast a heavy regimen of traditional ska and soulful reggae. One of the few bands to pay tribute to the golden era of Jamaican ska and reggae...

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Giselle Gabrielle Garcia

Giselle Garcia gained her undergraduate degree at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and moved on to the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Her interest in...

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Go Janes

The Go Janes feature ukulele, guitar, and generous doses of delicious harmony. Arni Adler, Patrice O’Neill, and Kathleen Tracy (pictured left to right) have decades of experience as performers, visual...

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God’s Favorite Beefcake

Okay … I’ll tell you what, click on that link above that will take you to their MySpace page where you can hear the music for this strange Circus Contraption...

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Godfrey Daniels

Godfrey Daniels

Moisture Festival regulars know Godfrey Daniels as one of our own. We’ve met his family and learned his ways. We’ve come to know what frustrates him and what makes him...

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Gregor and Kelly

Grzegorz “Gregor” Ros, a native of Poland, came to America in 2004 with a Masters degree in Pysiotherapy and an engagement as an acrobat in the Las Vegas show Le...

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Hacki & Möppi

From Germany, the comedy and energy of this father and son clown duo have been a central part of the festival’s original inspiration and a good bit of the imagery...

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Hacki Ginda

In 1989, Hacki was living in West Berlin on the day that the Berlin Wall came down. He went, as soon as he could, into the East looking for a...

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Hannah Gorder

Hannah Gorder is a movement artist based out of Seattle, Washington. She specializes in aerial arts, contortion, costumed character and dance. With a Bachelor of Arts degree in Three-Dimensional Art...

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Harlequin Hipsters

The Harlequin Hipsters is a collaborative performance collective whose aim is to honor, celebrate, and continue to evolve the rich heritage of American social dance. Through the synthesis and reimagining...

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Harry Levine aka Kuzma Karamazov

Kuzma believes that laughter may be the only medicine that everyone can afford.  After years of analysis, his theory on comedy can be summed up as follows:  Quantity.  In 1984,...

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Hat Trick

What a pleasure to welcome these guys to town! Between them, they have many years in the business … the business of juggling. We will see some comedy and clowning...

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He Said, She Said

Angie Doctor & Dan Schumacher are long time friends of the Moisture Festival who performed with the The Bobs an enormously popular recording and touring a cappella group who shared...

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Heavenly Spies

The Heavenly Spies began as a little known cabaret/burlesque group titled: Ultra and the Satin Dolls by a group of eager-to-perform Cornish graduates in early 2004. In 2005 after many...

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Helena Reynolds

Helena Reynolds is an aerial artist and contemporary dancer, trained in aerial and contortion at the San Francisco Circus Centre and in Contemporary Dance and Ballet at the prestigious North...

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Henrik Bothe

Henrik performs a “Physical Comedy Show” that spans from plate spinning a la the Ed Sullivan Show to comedy magic and juggling such as escaping a straitjacket while riding a...

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High Spirits

Moisture Festival favorites Jan Damm and Ariele Ebacher have formed a partnership to present a new act at the 2017 Moisture Festival. We know the quality of their solo work...

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Hilary Chaplain

Hilary Chaplain, actress, clown, physical comedian and teacher, has worked with George C. Wolfe & Patrick Stewart, Aitor Basauri, Bill Irwin, Avner Eisenberg, the Big Apple Circus, on Broadway and...

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Hilby … Skinny German Juggling Boy

As a boy growing up in Berlin, young Hilby boasted no traumatic childhood experiences and exhibited no particular talents other than making funny faces at strangers and, as Hilby himself...

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Hokum W. Jeebs

Our longtime friend, Hokum, was scheduled to perform in this year’s Moisture Festival but he was tragically taken from us just after Valentine’s Day. Hokum W. Jeebs was a one-man...

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Hoop Duality

Hoop Duality combines the skills and grace of Kirra Lien & Jody Poth, two proud Seattle natives. After years of dancing, Jody started doing circus arts in 2011, initially with...

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Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band

As one of their friends mentioned in a letter posted on their website, they do the things that they sing about in their songs. Horse Crazy Cowgirls sing and swing...

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Hot Damn Scandal

Hot Damn Scandal finds its songs under park benches and in forgotten alleyways. The resulting outlaw ballads, dirty jazz, circus freakouts, ragtime sea-shanties, string band funk, lonesome heart-breakers, and whiskey...

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Hot Pink Feathers

“Best of the Bay” dance company Hot Pink Feathers is in it’s 10th year of Delighting the World, One Showgirl at a Time. The Feathers spread joy and wonder through...

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Hypnomatic

He’s The Hypnomatic. He’s a mind mechanic.

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Iman Lizarazu

Iman Lizarazu

Iman Lizarazu was born in a small village in the Basque region of France, where her family has lived for over 800 years. ************************************* Iman’s early years were spent in...

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IMPulse Circus Collective

The IMPulse Circus Collective is a group of young performers and friends with art on their minds and circus in their hearts. Formed in Seattle in 2013 as artists-in-residence at...

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Incredible Incredible

The Incredible Incredible is coming to the Moisture Festival in 2015. This partnership between Justin Therrien and Matthew “Poki” McCorkle promises to be odd entertainment within a festival of odd...

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India & Marigold

INDIA OSEBOLD is a budding performer who brought Marigold to life through her ventriloquism act that first debuted at the Oregon Country Fair and was reprised for last year’s Moisture...

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Ivan Dotsenko Hoop Juggling & Manipulation

Ivan Dotsenko has been performing since the age of ten, hailing from a multi-generation circus family, Ivan first travelled to the United States touring with the Moscow Circus. He has...

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Ivanna Wei

Ivanna started out in a career dancing with various companies in Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles and was introduced to aerial arts along the way. She has always...

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Ivory Fox

Ivory Fox is a NYC based femcee and performer. She loves cheese. Photo credit: Pixel Vixen Imaging

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JR Rhodes

J.R. Rhodes

From her first open-mic performances at the O.K. Hotel in Seattle, to her performances at Benaroya Hall, J.R.’s belief in the transformative power of music are distilled into songs of...

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Jack and Jeri Kalvan

This dynamic juggling/acrobatic duo has performed their amazing and odd skills (like synchronized flowerpot manipulation) around the world. Jack Kalvan is a comedy juggler and former mechanical engineer. His wife,...

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Jacki Ward

With a history of gymnastics, theatre and visual arts, Jacki entered the circus world in 2005 and pursued her training in Seattle, San Francisco and Buenos Aires. Jacki’s first passion...

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Jacob D’Eustachio

Jacob is delighted to be performing at Moisture Fest for the first time!   He’s a native New Yorker who became obsessed with juggling at age 10.  Since then, his...

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Jami Sieber

Jami is a performer that makes transformation appear simple, taking a traditionally classical instrument and morphing it into the source of a multi-dimensional range of expressive works. In the 28...

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Jamy Ian Swiss

According to the post-modern magic duo, Penn & Teller, Jamy Ian Swiss is “James Bond with a deck of cards for a pistol!” An internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist, mentalist and...

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Jan Damm

Jan (“Yahn”) Damm has been touring in the U.S. and internationally as a circus artist for 15 years. Originally from Maine, he has worked street corners, big-top tents, theaters and...

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Janet & David

Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy) As specialists in Entertainment Law, we at Teeney and Tardy, Esq. have been proudly serving the industry for 25 years. In our...

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Janet McAlpin

Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years....

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Janet McAlpin & Lynelle Sjoberg

Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years....

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Janna Wächter

“Janna Wächter’s sweet mezzo-soprano voice” one reviewer said “can be earthy or refined as she sees fit” and this might be an apt description of her contributions to musical and...

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Jason Andrews

Jason Andrews is a nationally acclaimed magician who performs in Las Vegas production shows, on television, works with Fortune 500 corporations on product launches and gala/ awards shows, and has...

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Jason Mejias

Jason is a Circus, Cabaret and Variety performer and has been working in the New York City Nightlife scene since 2009 as a regular performer at venues like Galapagos Art...

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Jason Quick

A One-Armed Juggler combining Circus Arts with Spoken Word to amaze, astound and inspire audiences of all ages. Jason lost his arm in an electrical accident when he was six...

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Jason Rodgers

Jason Rodgers has been a tap dancer/actor/musician, working professionally since the age of 10. He’s worked with Debbie Allen, Donald O’Connor, George C. Wolfe, Eddie Brown, Fayard Nicholas, and Danny...

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Jason Victor Serinus

Once you hear Jason, you’ll understand why this internationally published classical music and audiophile critic chose his name, Serinus, for the genus of songbirds that includes canaries. In the world...

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Jason Webley

The Wikipedia entry on Jason Webley describes his music as a combination of folk, gypsy, and punk. It goes on to say that he quit his day job in the...

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Jay Alexander

Jay Alexander is the great grandson of the legendary vaudeville performer, Gentleman Ben Darwin. As a child, Jay found a trunk in his grandparents attic filled with magic and escapes....

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Jay Gilligan

Jay Gilligan has performed in 29 different countries, touring solo work and collaborating with companies such as The Gandini Juggling Project, Cie Jérôme Thomas, Les 7 doigts de la main,...

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Jeanne Dark

Born into a show biz family Jeanne formed her own sense of style as she trained to join the fun. She brought her act into the exploding European Varietè scene....

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Jef Jaisun

Seattle musician Jef Jaisun may now be better known for his brilliant music photography. He’s amassed an estimated half-million images, predominantly of blues, rhythm and blues and jazz artists. While...

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Jeff Raz

Jeff Raz has performed internationally for decades, starring in circuses (Cirque du Soleil, Pickle Family Circus, Song Circus), variety (Vaudeville Nouveau) and theaters, including Servant of Two Masters at Berkeley Rep, La Bête at...

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Jen Kramer

Jen Kramer is magic. She turns the impossible into the impossible-to-ignore and always does it with a smile. Jen currently headlines a regular show at the Wyndham Grand Desert Resort...

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Jenn Bruyer

Jenn is a multidisciplinary performance artist, choreographer, and coach. She has entertained audiences and guided students around the world including over 30 US states, China, Italy, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Austria, Canada,...

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Jenny Atomik

Jenny is an aerialist and performer from San Francisco, CA.  She primarily works on corde-lisse, but has also performed on tissue, hammock, and is currently in the process of creating...

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Jenny Penny

Jenny is an Aerialist, Acrobalancer, Fire performer, Circus entertainer, Burlesque dancer and Freak. She has been performing in Seattle and around the globe since 2004. For the past eight years...

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Jeremiah Johnston

He’s one of ours. Jeremiah grew up in California and then in his college years became aware of the performer scene and extended family that centers itself around the Moisture...

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Jes and Heidi

Jes and Heidi both have a strong background in dance and theater, came to the circus later in their adult life, and have been training and performing together since 2016....

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Jesse Finkelstein

Here are some comments made about Jesse on social media: “I give you thunderous applause and raise a glass to you Jesse! U are doing an amazing job and obviously...

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Jessica Perry

Jessica Perry is an artist and creator of multi-genre performance art. She graduated from the National Centre for Circus Arts in London in 2017 where she specialized in rope. This...

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Jessie Sawyers

Jessie Sawyers is a Seattle-based tap dancer, producer, entrepreneur, artist, educator, cultivator of community, believer in our youth, life lover, and music maker. She began tap dancing at the age...

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Jet Black Pearl

The untamed and inimitable Jet Black Pearl from the port of Amsterdam spent many years in the south of France before settling in Portland in 2014. She has performed on...

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Jill Marissa

Jill Marissa is a Seattle-based performer specialising in hand balancing, aerial arts and dance. Equal parts glitter and grit, she has been dazzling audiences with her unique blend of feminine...

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Jill Schaffner

A modern dancer and former gymnast, Jill works to join those skills and sensibilities in performance as an aerialist. Known to Seattle audiences for her work with ticktock dance company,...

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Jim Hinde

Jim won’t be performing with us this year. He isn’t available. That’s too bad because these are his times. Do yourself a favor and follow the link next to his...

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Jim Page

The great Utah Phillips once said: “Jim Page’s songs get right to the point. He looks at the world clearly and reports what he sees with compassion, humor and a...

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Joanne Rand

Touring nationally for thirty years, Joanne Rand “continues to push the art pedal to the floor,” recently completing her 14th CD of original songs: “Still a Real World.” She released...

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Jody Poth

Jody hails from Seattle and brings years of experience in all aerial forms and duo work. With a background in dance, Butoh, experimental theatre, flow-based movement arts, Jody also pays...

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Joe Orrach

Joe Orrach is a choreographer, performer and storyteller in live theater and film. Joe started as a boxer, Welterweight champion of the US Air Force, before turning to dance, especially...

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Joel Baker

As a much-loved theater clown performing worldwide, Joel Baker brings to the stage a unique style of physical comedy, acrobatics, and improvisation. He is a graduate of San Francisco’s Clown...

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Joel Salom

Joel Salom is an Australian smarty-pants. Not only does he have “crackerjack timing, ambidextrous expertise and astounding balance” (LA Times), he also juggles his two kids with his gorgeous wife,...

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Joey Pipia

Mind-Bending Wonder. Unforgettable Entertainment. Fast, funny, and amazing, audiences roll with laughter, gasp in stunned surprise, and leave every show feeling elated, inspired, and awed by this magician’s standout performance....

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John Carney

is no ordinary “magician”. His approach is smart, engaging and always surprising. He is widely acknowledged as one of the top sleight of hand magicians in the world with smart,...

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Johnny Fox

Johnny Fox is a legendary character among street performers, circus folk and the like. He’s a New York City illusionist, lecturer, story teller and a famed sword swallower. Many of...

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Johnnyjetpack presents: “Junior’s report”

Whether he’s bringing us Junior or gas propelled Johnny Jetpack speeding skyward at 50+ mph (in about one second), or YouTube favorites Flaming Anus or the incredible and hilarious Cordless...

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Jon Armstrong

Jon Armstrong

Growing up in Orlando, Florida, Jon became fascinated by the magic he saw in the theme parks around him and dreamed of having his own show. This dream came true...

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Jonah Katz

Originally from the apple orchards of Northern California, Jonah Katz is a versatile physical comedian. He is a graduate of the Clown Conservatory and the Professional Acrobatic Training Program at...

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Jonah Spool

When Moisture Festival needs help, who do we call? Not those ghost guys you’ve heard so much about … we call a real Seattle working man: Jonah Spool!  

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Jonathan Rose

Jonathan’s love of circus began in Mexico where he ran away with El Circo De Gran Choya, a traditional, family owned circus. After two years of traveling throughout Mexico he...

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Jordan McKnight

Jordan is currently the worlds most advanced contortionist. Jordan is unique, in that she bends both front, back, side, dislocates and twists. Jordan won the bronze prize in the International...

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Jordie Campbell

Jordie Campbell is an interdisciplinary circus performer, coach, and curious explorer of all things movement. She performs and creates original work both on and off the ground specializing in aerial...

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Joyce Rice

Whip cracking, glass spinning, juggling, twirling, and polished entertaining … Joyce Rice is one of the two partners who make up Rice and Renee, a well known mother/daughter team who...

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Judith Bowers

Archaeologist, historian, researcher, writer and burlesque enthusiast, Judith Bowers founded the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Trust in 1997 to help save the world’s oldest surviving music hall rediscovered on Glasgow’s...

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JuggleMania

“Is a children’s festival held when you plant them or when you harvest them?” Rhys Thomas’ JuggleMania show avoids answering this question by constantly shifting focus from prop-play to word-play...

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Juggler Jefferson Freire

Jefferson Freire is from Zona Sul, The South Zone, one of the most populated areas of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It was there that he first learned to...

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Julaine Hall

Julaine Hall is an acrobat and aerialist specializing in Chinese Pole. She also trains Aerial Straps, Aerial Rope, Handbalance, Juggling, Acro/Tumbling, Acro-dance, and loves to do group disciplines like Teeterboard/Korean...

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Julia Limoges

Julia is currently performing and coaching aerial in Seattle. She has a passion for all things circus arts, dance, and acting with a Marketing/Sales degree from Foster School of Business....

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Junior Cesar

Junior Cesar was born as a baby in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1986 but he was reborn as a performer ten years later when he made a short presentation of...

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Just Felice

Just Felice is a magician and street performer who can be found most often at Boston’s Faneuil Hall. In the US, she has performed on the streets of Boston and...

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Justin & Nikki

Nikki Laumb calls herself a “circus comic.” She enjoys writing and producing pieces for circus productions that meld humor and circus acts to create absurd and surprising sketch comedy and...

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Kamikaze FireFlies

Sexy meets circus! Bludgeoning audiences with wit, crushing them with whimsey, and tearing them a new laugh hole … It’s the Kamikaze FireFlies! Rob Williams is a Moisture Festival favorite....

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Karen Quest – Cowgirl Tricks

Dubbed “America’s Funniest Cowgirl”, Karen has been blazing a trail since 1998 with her one-woman Cowgirl Tricks comedy show. Skillful trick roping, whip cracking and improvisational kooky cowgirl shenanigans have...

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Karen Willie

So … the 2018 Moisture Festival was already underway by the time we had a chance to really get into what it was this performer would do at the festival....

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Kari Jay Hunter

Drawing from a background in dance, gymnastics, theater, and music, Kari has been training, performing, and coaching circus arts and vaudeville skills ranging from various aerial disciplines to roller skate...

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Katie Lynch

Katie is a Pacific Northwest based multidisciplinary circus artist who seeks to inspire through creative movement; both grounded and gravity defying. She opened an aerial studio in Gig Harbor, WA...

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Kazüm

Kazüm’s mission is to push the boundaries of perceived limitations, inspire ourselves and others to actualize dreams and to create more joy and beauty in the world through the medium...

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Kellin

Kellin. Juggler, acrobat, and sometimes he’s funny. Beginning his training at a young age in St. Louis and then moving to Montreal in 2014 he has collected a wide variety...

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Kenny Raskin

For those of us who, in the 1980s, saw Kenny Raskin’s original and unique clown piece called “My Old Friend”, it was no surprise that his career path soared to...

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Kerfuffle

Sarah Liane Foster, performer, creator, and teacher of clown and movement-based theatre has joined forces with Linda Severt who has spent years as a medical clown performer and organizer for...

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Kermet Apio

Kermet Apio

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Kermet Apio enjoyed a childhood in paradise. He spent his time watching television, playing, and procrastinating everything else. To this day, he still does...

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Kerri Kresinski

Kerri is truly a unique performer, engaging, thrilling and moving audiences with her skills, style, and heart. She has dedicated her life to training and developing herself as an artist....

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Kevin Brooking

Kevin Brooking presents a mime, music, juggling and magic act whom the French have compared to Chaplin and Mack Sennett (in France, there is no higher praise). Before graduating from...

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Kevin Joyce

Kevin’s Sylvester Dickey character has been a beloved Moisture Festival host for a decade. An actor, host, show producer and musician, Kevin composed the Festival’s interactive “Moisture Song”, with the...

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Kevin Kent

Kevin was one of the original cast members of Seattle’s acclaimed Teatro ZinZanni. He is a writer, director and producer whose work has led him overseas in addition to being...

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Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy has been performing his exuberant, comic and slightly mad poetry for over 35 years. Kevin has toured throughout the Northwest and beyond as a member of the entertainment/...

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Kiki The Crab

Kiki Cosmosis is an interdimensional ecdysiast from Seattle WA. Since 2011 she’s been transforming cosmic inspiration into sensuous acts of artistic elation. This award winning multi-undisciplinary artist is known for...

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Lady Heather

Lady Heather studied voice in Glasgow, Scotland and impressed us by singing “O mio babbino caro”, a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto...

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Lady Rizo

Lady Rizo aka Amelia Zirin-Brown is a NYC based cabaret star, composer, actor and performance artist. She is also a Grammy winner for her 2010 collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma on...

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Lamonte & The Family Affair

This “serious funk revival” will get you out of your seat and dancing in the new year. Lead (from the drum kit) by Bunny Lamonte of Circus Contraption fame, the...

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Lara Paxton

Founder of the Aerialistas and Circus Contraption, Lara has performed in Spain and Germany in recent years and we are thrilled that she’s in the country and available to work...

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Laura Gwendolyn Burch

Laura specializes in athletic and innovative aerial work. She performs on silk, sling, dance trapeze, and lyra.  She has performed all over the US with The Venardos Circus, Circus Kirkus, Blue...

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Laura Schoop

Laura is a lifelong lover of heights and flight – these days, those passions are most often fulfilled by way of aerial straps and flying trapeze. Competing in gymnastics from...

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Laura Stokes

LAURA STOKES is a zealous movement researcher, educator and performer. Always fascinated by the notion of embodied experience, she was a child gymnast, a teenage ballerina, and at one point,...

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Leah Jones and Emma Curtiss

Leah Jones and Emma Curtiss

Emma Curtiss has been performing in the Seattle area for the last decade or so. Her core discipline is Cyr Wheel, but she also specializes in Aerial Fabric, Aerial hoop,...

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Leah Jones, Dream Frohe Laura Burch

Leah Jones, Dream Frohe, & Laura Burch

This will be the first time this trio graces the stage as collaborators.  The idea for this wacky piece started last fall when a song came along too powerful to...

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Leah V. Jones

Leah’s passion for dance and choreography began in her childhood home, where her living room was her rehearsal (and performance) space and where her parents were her willing audience. While...

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Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein

Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein has performed his unique cowboy comedy show in 35 different countries around the world. You’ll see slapdash physical comedy and spoken comedy channeled through Louie’s modern western...

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Legendary Voices in Concert

Larry G Jones, Singing Impressionist – Comedian. The Temptations, Cher, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Elvis, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Rat Pack are just a small sample of...

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Leland Faulkner

Leland Faulkner is a character actor, magician, and a mime artist. Early in his career he worked with Affiliate Artists as a corporate arts liaison in communities throughout the United...

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Lelavision

The name Lela is more than a play on the names of the founders; derived from two Sanskrit terms meaning “creation” and “creative spark”, with references to “play,” it denotes...

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Lena Alani

Lena Alani is a highly skilled contemporary/interdisciplinary circus performer, aerialist, choreographer, dancer and coach, based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in Russia, homeland of world-famous dancers and gymnasts,...

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Linda Severt

Linda Severt delivers an engaging, high-energy performance combining juggling, music, puppetry, and physical comedy. Linda has performed in hundreds of schools and at numerous festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada....

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Lindsay Benner

Lindsay Benner is a beloved staple in the US variety arts scene. She mixes classic vaudeville tricks with a theatrical, seductive spin that gives her audience a unique and memorable...

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Liza Rose

Since settling in Seattle in 2008, Liza has worked with the Aerialistas, Manifold Motion, the Atomic Bombshells, Lily Verlaine, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Moisture Festival, cellist Zoe Keating,...

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Lo-Lo Flamingo

When Lo-Lo takes the stage, the audience immediately becomes caught up in the excitement of it all. As her juggling clubs maneuver magically through the air, nothing of the years...

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Louie Foxx

Louie Foxx

Louie Foxx celebrated his interest in childish pursuits even before the birth of his child gave him “… a valid excuse to go to the zoo once a week and...

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Louis Pearl

Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles. An Edinburgh Fringe favourite, he has sold out every...

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Lounge Monster

Okay, he caused some damage when he first broke on to the scene, there are some cities that are grateful that he has now crossed the ocean to find a...

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Lucy Darling

Carisa Hendrix is Lucy Darling … Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as a young child, Carisa was an avid youth volunteer. That’s how she met the actors, magicians, and...

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Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson shows that it is possible to redefine juggling without sacrificing technique. Whether manipulating 1 club or 5, using hands, feet or face; his juggling is laid-back yet dynamic,...

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Luna Girls

“Suspense and beauty in the circus sky” Henk van der Meijden Marina Luna and Marika Ashley have their eyes turned skyward … they’ve tasted flight and they long to return....

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Luther Bangert

When he performed at the recent juggling convention in Portland, they listed him simply as “the enigmatic Luther Bangert”. While touring India the arrival in town of this six foot...

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Lyla Goldman

Lyla Goldman is an aerial and unicycle artist. Born in Seattle, she learned to unicycle at the age of five,   before she’d even touched a bicycle. From there she found...

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Lyne Gosselin & Mackenzie Baert

Over the past 15 years, Lyne Gosselin has successfully performed in a great variety of events such as: festivals, plays and corporate functions. She has performed across Canada, the United...

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Macha

Amanda Crockett and Shayna Swanson are each working solo at this year’s Moisture Festival (see their separate bios on this page) working together they will present a Duo Frame aerial...

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Magical Mystical Michael

Magical Mystical Michael’s combination of wit, charm and a “sleight” attitude, laced with his “eccentric-elusive logic” helps in his creating new and unique magic of the mind and hands. Michael’s...

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Majinga the Magician

…You’ll be “Wowed” by the Magical World of Michael Stroud, aka Majinga the Magician. Michael is a best-selling magic author, a twelve-time award winning magician and performance artist, and has...

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Manny Manstands

Manny has been stealing hearts with his upside-down antics across the Pacific Northwest since 2018. He is a full time cast member of Mimosa’s Cabaret in Seattle, where you can...

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Manuela Horn

Manuela Horn, also known as the Austrian Amazon, is riding the whirlwind! We’re so pleased to have her join our Moisture Festival cast. Manuela is a yodeling, dancing, acting comedic...

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Marco Polo

Renowned 13th century explorer, Marco Polo has been stuck here in the “future” for a few years now, but instead of curling up like a roly poly he has decided...

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Marcus Raymond

Even as a child Marcus was always putting on shows and making people laugh entertaining family and friends. By the age of 23 he was traveling with Ringling Bros. and...

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Marcus, Funny Man Who Does Tricks

Marcus Wilson was born on April Fools day 1973, so it seems only fitting that he has a passion for jokes. This passion kept him in trouble all through elementary...

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Maria Margiyeva

Maria Margiyeva

Maria was born in Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 7 she began her career as an athlete of rhythmic gymnastics on the Club Dynamo of Kiev coached by Vera...

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Marina Luna

Marina Luna has wowed audiences in the US and abroad with her strength and grace in the air. In San Francisco she’s performed in Teatro ZinZanni’s “Under the Gypsy Moon,”...

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Marina Ovsyannikova

On Russia’s Channel 1 NOWAR Stop the war Don’t believe the propaganda  They are lying to you here  

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Mark Ettinger

Comprehensivist, composer and performer Mark Ettinger plays with music in a variety of genres on an assortment of instruments, from joining Bo Diddley as pianist to conducting the Cincinnati Orchestra...

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Mark Growden

Mark Growden is a singer, writer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, visual artist, and workshop leader. Mark has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Saint Judas, which was awarded “2010 Rekkid...

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Mark Hayward

Mark Hayward

Mark Hayward has been a variety arts performer since 1990. He is a World Yo-yo Champion, a member of a World Champion Juggling Team, and a Spin Top Champion. His...

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Martika

Martika

Internationally renowned and motivationally captivating, Martika the one woman stunt show hails from Kansas City, MO. Born into a military family, Martika began traveling the world at a young age. She...

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Martin Mall

Martin Mall is a classically trained cellist and multi-award winning professional juggler from Germany and he is renowned for his early innovations with the diabolo. In this year’s Moisture Festival...

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Mary Way

Mary is a surprise. We’ve seen her skills and are more than ready to have her company backstage and her act onstage but we’re sure that you’ll agree with us...

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Master Payne

Master Payne once again has made the long and arduous journey from the mysterious realm of Wallingford so that he can grace the stage at the Moisture Festival and entertain...

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Mateo

Mateo

Mathieu is a highly skilled performer with 30 years of athletic and acrobatic experience. An insatiable human to further his skill and push the human body to new limits. He...

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Mathieu Bolillo

Mathieu Bolillo is a highly skilled performer with 30 years of athletic and acrobatic experience and an insatiable drive to further his skill and push the human body to new...

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Matt Baker

Matt Baker is a Guinness World Record holder, was voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comic and has performed his comedy stunt show in over 14 different countries. He’s appeared on numerous...

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Matt Gordon

Matt Gordon has been delighting audiences with his fiddle , harmonica, and feet for the last 20 years. He has toured extensively in the U.S.A. , Canada and the U.K....

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Matt Hall

Matt Hall began his juggling career at the tender age of 27, after he purchased Charlie Dancey’s Encyclopaedia of Ball Juggling and vowed to learn every trick in the book....

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Matthew “Poki” McCorkle

Matthew “Poki” McCorkle is a circus artist of many disciplines. Poki has performed in Europe’s finest Spiegeltents (PALAZZO Dinner Show), in Dubai with Cirque Éloize, in Palestine West Bank with...

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Matthew Bob

Matthew Stull has been one of The Bobs ever since that Grammy nominated Emmy telecast performing, NPR Morning Edition commenting A cappella performance group has been in existence (36 years)...

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Matthew Laslo

Matthew Laslo is a 17-year-old, rising young star in the magic world and an award-winning magician who performs both close-up and grand illusions that has thrilled audiences worldwide.  He is...

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Max Bromista

Max Bromista has always been funny but just over four years ago he took his sense of humor to the stage and has since then surprised people with his unique...

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Maxim Voronin

Maxim Voronin has grown up backstage. his parents are noted Varieté performers well known to audiences in Russia, on the European continent and in the Americas … especially in San...

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MeeZee

MeeZee is a character actor, chair stacker, clown, roaming/ambient specialist and Bboy (breakdancer). Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, MeeZee performs frequently with a group that describes itself as having...

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Meraki Duo Acrobatics

Meraki Duo Acrobatics is a new partnership but Jenae Gerstmann and Dominic Eason have worked as part of a team for a long time now. As members of Portland’s renowned...

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Michael Carbonaro

Michael Carbonaro is an American actor who was born in New York, New York. In 2003, he kicked off his film career starring as Mikey Falcone in A Tale of...

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Michael Clifton

One the best show drummers on any circuit, ask any of the many vaudeville/Varietè acts who’ve done their turn with his support from the band pit. Michael’s coming in from...

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Michael Davis

A third-generation San Franciscan, Michael’s creative efforts began early. In high school, he was a published poet and won the school acting award. In the early ‘70’s, Michael was intrigued...

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Michael Evolution

Michael Evolution is a world-class basketball freestyle juggler that amazed millions of people in his career so far. With 20 years of live stage experience, Michael has earned his marks...

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Michael Harrison

Michael Harrison

Michael Harrison presents; “VENTASTIC – Reimagining the Art of Ventriloquism” From Victoria, BC Canada, Michael is an extraordinarily talented ventriloquist, comedian and master showman who combines his many talents in...

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Michael Menes

Michael Menes is a visual performer who creates a perfectly blended mix of expert juggling, eccentric comedy, and evocative variety suitable for all ages. His performances feature exquisite juggling, mind-...

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Michael Paul

Philly native, Michael Paul began his career in local television at age 16. Sustaining a 25 year comedy career, he honed his craft touring with such names as James Brown,...

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Michael Preston

For a decade he toured the world as one of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, which included three different runs on Broadway. With them he collaborated on and performed 9 different...

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Michael Rayner

Michael Rayner’s show has been described as “preposterous brilliance” and “whacky jugglement,” a combination of hilarious tricks and stunts with uproarious stand-up and a bounty of improvised fun.  You’re never...

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Michael Trautman

Michael Trautman began studying mime in 1976, and in 1977 was invited to become a founding member of MIMEWOCK, a Kansas City based school and performing company. He went on...

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Mick Holsbeke

Mick is a world-renown clown with a ravenous appetite for the ridiculous. His unique perspective on clowning, exuberant physical acting, and circus expertise was developed at the prestigious Ecole Nationale...

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Mik Kuhlman

Mik Kuhlman creates dynamic solo and ensemble theatre and fosters international artistic collaborations. A performer with sublime comic timing, serious depth and cross disciplinary training she has been working as...

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Mike Caveney

Mike Caveney has performed professionally for over forty years and each of his original routines is perfectly suited to his dry comedic wit. He is a member of the most...

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Mike Wood

Combining two of Canada’s main exports, comedy and natural resources, Mike Wood is a comedian with a degree in mine engineering. He has been making people laugh for money since...

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Mike Wood & Checkerboard

The Checkerboard Guy and Mike Wood were/are Canadian comedy cohorts who are performing their solo object and word juggling routines in several Moisture Festival shows (check out their individual bios)....

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Miles and Karina

One reviewer called their music “wonderful, … irreverent, purposefully silly, very sophisticated …” Another said “these stellar musicians have stepped up and into a musical circle where only a few...

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Miss Ekaterina

Ekaterina was born and raised in Russia. She began performing at the age of five as a rhythmic gymnast and became a member of the Russian National team, competing successfully...

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Miss Rose and her Rhythm Percolators

Travel back in time to the earliest days of the Jazz Age with Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators. The Seattle-based quartet faithfully recreates the vintage jazz of the early...

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Mister YooWho

Moshe Cohen (Mr YooWho) creates, performs and teaches in the world of ‘the funny.’  For 40+ years now, he has pursued excellence in the elusive art form called Clown, seeking...

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Mme Zazou

AKA Dolorèze Léonard European Weekly referred to hers as “a voice that Louis Armstrong would have envied.” Business Woman Magazine called her a “French Canadian girl who blossomed into perhaps...

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Mo and Nick

Nick is a familiar face for Moisture Festival audiences. He has graced many stages and circus rings as a part of A Unicycle Built for Two (he’s the one on...

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Moeppi Ginda

As a young man Moeppi (a German nickname for Myron) left his home in Muenster, Germany to join his father in the family craft … making people laugh. Moeppi’s father,...

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Moisture Festival Photographers

Before the very first Moisture Festival in 2004, photographer John Cornicello was summoned to take photos of a new upcoming event. Shortly thereafter, the festival opened in a tent in Fremont....

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Monica Nevi

Monica Nevi is a native of the Seattle area, having grown up about 20 minutes south in the glory that is Renton, WA. Monica has had the privilege of performing...

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Monsieur LouLou

Chinese pole acrobat and Ringmaster Monsieur LouLou will make his debut appearance this year at the Moisture Festival. Can you imagine? Yeah … neither could we … so we watched...

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Montana von Fliss

Montana von Fliss

Montana von Fliss is a giant fan of the Moisture Festival and of you too, for supporting and attending the Moisture Festival! She has been stepping onstage for over 30...

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Moz Wright

Cold Steel and Hot Licks! Fire breather/sword swallower, Moz, grew up in a family that had been in circus but had settled down by the time he came along. Not...

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MP Letourneau

MP (Mary Pat Letourneau) is an award-winning choreographer and performance artist with 8 years of experience performing nationwide as a contortionist, pole artist, aerialist, and dancer. In this capacity, she toured the...

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MP Letourneau & Andrey Moraru

MP and Andrey … wow. They are both performing solo in this year’s Moisture Festival and each alone is a wonder to behold. But now we’ll see them together on...

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Mr P.P.

Tim Tyler a visual stand-up comic actor with an incredible array of amazing skills Born on a goldmine in Geita Tanganyika, brought up in Sussex England and at 12 moved...

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Mr. Spin

This will be his first year at Seattle’s Moisture Festival. Mr. Spin is noted in the world of juggling performance for … wait, let me let Reg Bolton say it:...

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Mud Bay Jugglers

Masters of levity is several senses of the term. Mud Bay has brought their innovative approach to juggling for over 40 years now. They’ve passed some of their knowledge and...

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Muriel Olivier

Muriel Jasmine Rose Olivier, Age four, debuted her trapeze act at last year’s Moisture Festival and is back this year with a new, advanced routine. Having trained on the trapeze...

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Mykelle Walton

Mykelle Walton is an aerial artist pushing the boundaries of what the human body can do and combining it with the strength, grace, and artistry of a cirque style aerialist...

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Naked Truth

The Naked Truth show band. Their name? We looked up Naked Truth on the internet and found this story explaining the source of that idiom since the late 1500s: Truth...

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NANDA

The NANDA experience is a high-energy, unrelenting blast of action and excited humor. You will be enraptured by this dynamic show, a tidal wave of acrobatics, dance, juggling and crazy...

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Nate Cooper

He is a natural physical comedian and eccentric dance aficionado. An endlessly talented clogger, tap and swing dancer, juggler, roller skater and clown. Dedicated to the art of play, Cooper...

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Nathan Arnold – Johnny Jetpack Propulsion Labs

Whether he’s bringing us Squirrel and Junior or gas propelled Johnny Jetpack speeding skyward at 50+ mph (in about one second), or YouTube favorites Flaming Anus or the incredible and...

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Neonman

He moves in darkness, this man of mystery. Silent as the shadows themselves and yet we understand him. His mission? To enlighten the dim. Wish to know more? Follow his...

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New Old Time Chautauqua

Their vaudeville variety shows run 2 – 2 1/2 hours and often include everything from comediennes to jugglers and tap dancers, from rap singers to rope-spinners and bubble-blowers and from...

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Ngaio Bealum

Starting out as a juggler in San Francisco, and now a well-known traveling entertainer, Ngaio Bealum uses his great storytelling ability, his razor sharp wit and engaging stage presence leave...

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Nich Galzin

A native of Chicago, Nich’s skills include several forms of acrobatics and aerial work. He will perform in Burlesque this year on a gymnastic device known in America as the...

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Nick Ng

Nick is a pirate captain, space tiger, and aerialist that prides himself on gravity-defying technique that some would call “falling with style”. He loves balancing dynamic sequences with still moments,...

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Nicolo Kehrwald

Nicolo Kehrwald began with dance, studying tap, ballet, modern and capoeira and he quickly took to the circus arts when he joined Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theatre in 2001. During...

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Niels Duinker

Niels Duinker first thought of becoming a successful international performer when he was 12 years old, and his dream has become a reality. He’s excited to be returning to the...

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Night Flight Aerial

Night Flight is a performance company based in Portland, OR. We produce big, colorful, beautiful shows that combine breathtaking aerial artistry and playful storytelling. We are extremely passionate about what...

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Nikole Gramm

Nikole, a Seattle based circus artist, performs on a variety of aerial apparatuses, partner acrobatics, and trampo-wall, but her primary focus is tissu. She found circus arts in 2010 after...

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Nimbus Circus

Nimbus Circus, a troupe of talented and energetic 8-12 year-old students, was formed in January of 2010, originally under the name The Magnificent 7 (there were seven original members). All...

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Noa

Noa is an American – Israeli performer. An opinionated contact improviser, skilled aerialist, devoted mover and clown. Noa has been making work in the air and on the ground since...

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Noah Mickens

Noah Howard Mickens (born February 18) is an American performance artist, showman, and writer from Portland, Oregon, primarily known for his contributions to vaudevillian revival, and as a ringmaster and...

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Nu Klezmer Army

Nu Klezmer Army brings new life and energy to the traditional music of the yiddish-speaking jews of Eastern Europe. Melding together each player’s diverse musical background, NKA brings forth an...

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Omri & Paulina

Omri and Paulina are an aerial duo that specialize in duo straps and aerial acts that combine a high level of technicality and strength with emotion, storytelling, and compelling chemistry. They strive not only to amaze and inspire, but also...

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Onlies

The Onlies are a group of 14 year old musicians from Seattle who have known each other since they were toddlers: Samantha Braman, Riley Calcagno, and Leo Shannon. They “…...

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Opal Peachey

Opal Peachey has said “I’m a shoot off of Circus Contraption. It was great because they eventually wrote parts specifically for me.” but she is more than that. A native...

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Out of the Blue

The full name of this is ‘Out of the Blue: An American Sign Language Dance Theater Production’ based on the song from Andrew Lippa’s WILD PARTY.’ It will be performed...

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Outshine Bboys

The Outshine Bboys are a high energy breakdance crew based out of Seattle. Made up of some of the most elite b-boys handpicked from crews like Fraggle Rock, Renegade Rockers, and...

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Pam Severns

Pam Severns is an LA-based comedian and puppeteer praised by the LA Times as being “renowned for her unorthodox take on classic puppetry.” A Jim Henson Foundation grant recipient, she...

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Pamela Donohoo

Pamela is an international performing artist: aerialist, dancer, acrobat and choreographer. Previous performances include commercials, award shows, events, educational series, and theatrical shows, including Le Reve in Las Vegas. Pamela...

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Pamela Donohoo & Mei Wang

Pamela is an international performing artist: aerialist, dancer, acrobat and choreographer. Previous performances include commercials, award shows, events, educational series, and theatrical shows, including Le Reve in Las Vegas. Pamela...

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Paper Doll Militia

“Spellbound” is a duo hammock act that is choreographed and performed by the Los Angeles based artists, Rain Anya and Lena Alani. Lena is a professional performer and aerial arts...

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Pas de Deux Straps

Professional aerialists and dancers Ernesto Lea Place and Caitlin Quinn, performing as the duo Pas de Deux Straps, are based in Boston. We are delighted to have them come to...

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Patch Adams

You may have heard of Patch through the film starring Robin Williams. It was about Patch’s life in medical school and called simply, Patch Adams. Patch is one of the...

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Patrick McGuire

Patrick McGuire grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA area but came to the NorthWest sometime around the turn of the century when he was invited to perform at the first...

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Paul Draper

Paul Draper is a Comedy Presenter, Mind-Reader, and Speaker who has appeared on the History Channel, A&E, HBO, Hallmark, the Travel Channel, HGTV, and shows like Hell’s Kitchen, Pawn Stars,...

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Paul Morocco & Olé

They play their guitars like “Paco De Lucia” They sing like “Pavarotti” and rumba like “Gypsy Kings”. They Spin, Flip, and Fly their Flamenco Guitarras, while popping ping pong balls,...

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Paul Nathan

Paul entertains audiences worldwide- from theater festivals in Hong Kong and Australia to festivals all over Europe- including Belgium’s “Humorology Festival,” Holland’s “Limburg Festival,” and England’s prestigious “Glastonbury Festival. His...

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Paz of Equilibrium Circus

PAZ has been performing and teaching the circus arts for over seventeen years. His performances have taken him to Asia, Australia, Central and North America, Europe, and the Caribbean and...

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Peculiärs

The Peculiärs are connoisseurs of the peculiar, seekers of odd musical gems of a bygone era, fastidious dressers. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Peculiärs. To see The Peculiärs, be sure to...

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PepperJill & Jack

Stephen and Shannon O’Bent are PepperJill & Jack. They are joining us from Astoria, Queens, New York (via Greenwood) and they say that they play “Songs about travel, love, the...

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Peter Davison

Peter Davison’s childhood idols were Alexander Calder and Batman, influences that led to training in visual art, juggling, and dance. While a teenager, Peter began his professional career street performing...

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Peter Irish

Comedy, action, talent, charisma, danger and dashing good looks are a rare combination in variety entertainment, but not when you’re talking about the world’s greatest foot-juggler, Peter Irish. More than...

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Peter Paul Van Camp

And now we are tasked with introducing a gentleman rhymester by the name of Peter Paul Van Camp. He has been travelling a circuit of folk clubs, folk festivals, college...

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Peter Pitofsky

When teaching clown classes Peter Pitofsky advises his students to respond to their childish impulses “No judgment. And don’t be nervous, not around me. There’ll never be a bigger moron...

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Phina Pipia

Phina Pipia

Hailed as “impossible to resist,” by the Montreal Gazette, “terrific,” by the New York Times, “enchanting” by the Twin Cities’ Pioneer Press, and “imaginative, intelligent, and strangely mesmerizing” by the...

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Pi Clowns

Pi is a physical comedy troupe devoted to exploring the world and examining life’s mysteries through a lens of wonder. Six clowns currently comprise the ensemble Pi, which was founded...

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Pinky d’Ambrosia

Circus Contraption’s vocalist, trumpet strumpet, dancer, Opera Diva, costumer and volunteer coordinator is described on that troupe’s website as one who “makes men swoon” with her siren song and we’ve...

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Pipia Sisters

The Pipia Sisters performances have been hailed as “charming as hell” by the Montreal Gazette, “prolific, inventive, and magical” by The Leader, and “terrific” by the New York Times. Real-life...

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PJ Perry

PJ Perry is a corde lisse specialist from Bellingham, Washington, who has been in the air since 2008. Her works have included solo, duo, and larger group pieces that have...

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PK Dwyer

Many Seattleites, familiar with PK’s unforgettable music and stage presentations believe that he’s a native of the Northwest. The same could be said of people in the other towns where...

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Poppy Daze

Poppy Daze (Lara Lee Rasberry) performs locally, nationally and internationally on a variety of aerial apparatus, including her signature anchor. She is the founder and director of the Aerialistas. Considered...

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Prince of Pain

Andrew Pulkrabek is the Prince of Pain. Lying on a bed of nails, having a cinder block smashed on his chest, escaping from a straight jacket … why does he...

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Professor Humbug’s Flea Circus

Is it real? Can fleas be trained? Is that a tiny circus? What do they eat? Do you really want to know? After much research into those and other questions...

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Professor Martin Shell

We eagerly anticipate the imminent arrival of the good professor as he makes his ambagious way across the country from his home in Springfield, Massachusetts. Noted for his topical and...

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Puppet Guy

Lee Zimmerman is a multi-talented veteran performer. Well known in the LA area comedy clubs and busking venues, he is known as The Puppet Guy to some and The Etch...

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Quiddlers

The Quiddlers are International Ambassadors of Physical Comedy. They started out in the mid-1980s as The Marauding Miners and they are still going strong with worldwide performances of their unique...

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Quynbi

Hailed as “one of the aerial world’s most glamorous artists, with a style all her own” by Aerial Arts International Magazine, Quynbi is a Seattle-based aerialist, dancer, model, multimedia visual...

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Rachel Barringer

Rachel Barringer is an aerialist and contortionist based in New England. She performs on aerial hoop, silks, rope, multi-codes, and aerial straps. She is one half of DuoShadow with Caroline...

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Rachel Karabenick

Rachel is an aerial artist with a strong background in modern and contemporary dance. She has toured and performed with multiple circus companies on stages large and small bringing her...

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Rachel Strickland

Classically trained in ballet since the age of three, Rachel is a ballerina turned aerialist and innovative variety performer. Modern, belly dance, and lyrical jazz make up some of her...

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Radical Acrobatical

Maria C. Mork and Laura K. Sposato are Radical Acrobatical, a female acro duo formed in 2018. They bring high-energy acro, dance, and tumbling to their performances, along with the...

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Rain Anya

Aerialist, actor, and dancer Rain Anya holds a degree in “Performance for Social Change.” She has trained extensively in aerial arts and physical theatre, including immersive programs such as Circomedia...

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Raindrops

The drought is over … in the nick of time, the Raindrops are here!

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Randy Cabral

Randy Cabral has been dazzling audiences worldwide for the past 15 years with his unique blend of highly interactive, action packed comedy and juggling. He has performed over 5000 shows...

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Raspyni Brothers

As one of the most sought after acts on the corporate entertainment scene, they appear annually at over 100 events across America and internationally. Since 1982 their intelligent mayhem has...

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Red Wine Sisters

From Santa Cruz, California, the Red Wine Sisters were spotted by Moisture Festival organizers while performing at an event entitled: Keep Santa Cruz Weird. They seemed to be helping greatly...

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Reggie Garrett & Christine Gunn

Reggie Garrett & Christine Gunn

Reggie Garrett (vocals & guitar) & Christine Gunn (cello) are a musical duo of unparalleled emotion and virtuosity.  Reggie’s lyricism in his explorations of the variety and subtlety of human experience are...

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Reggie Miles

As Seattle’s premiere sawplayer, Reggie’s exploration into the eerie tones and subtle timbre of the musical saw, and his uncanny ability to flex the hand tool’s razor sharp spring steel...

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Reid Belstock

Reid Belstock began juggling at the age of 15, as a way of overcoming gross and fine motor skill impairment. Following high school, Reid went off to study with Ringling...

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Renée Mak Circus

Renée Mak is a multi-disciplinary circus artist and creative extraordinaire based in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. Unlike so many circus artists out there, she started her circus journey late at...

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Reverend Chumleigh

R. Chumleigh is a New Vaudeville legend who performs throughout the civilized world and in the Dominion of Canada. Comfortable in any persona and historical period, Chumleigh is capable of...

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Rhys Thomas

Whether walking up a stairway of blades, gliding along a slack rope, juggling pins, spinning crockery on sticks (for no known reason) or offering other circus-style feats Rhys Thomas’ climb-up,...

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Rhys Thomas & Charlie Brown

We’re fortunate this year to have Charlie and Rhys coming up from Oregon together to host some of our shows in addition to the solo performance spots they’ll bring to...

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Ricardo Sosa

Ricardo Sosa

Ricardo Sosa is son of a singer, and as a teenager he enrolled in the Yuri Mandich Circus School in Havana, where he graduated with a remarkable hand-balancing and contortion...

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Richard Hartnell

A pivotal juggler, event producer, and teacher from the west coast of the US, Richard Hartnell is best known as one of the world’s eminent practitioners of contact juggling. Richard...

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Rick Ruskin

Rick Ruskin started playing guitar in 1962 and in just one year became a respected professional musician in his native Detroit, Michigan. In 1964, while still in Jr. High School,...

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Ricochet

Weaving delicate metaphor with jaw dropping spectacle, Ricochet’s unique style of poetic acrobatics has taken the world by storm. Based in the mountains of rural New Mexico, they combine lyric...

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Righteous Mothers

The Righteous Mothers are four funny, philosophical female folk-rock musicians who have been one of the Northwest’s foremost musical performing groups for the past 31 years. They whip their audience...

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Rob Lok

Dynamic Comedy. Comic Stunts. What could possibly go wrong? Rob Lok is an international variety performer and contemporary clown. Slapstick gags and high-octane circus skills have made his shows in...

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Rob Mermin

Rob Mermin trained in classical mime with Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau and has performed in European circus, theater, TV and film for forty years. He is an author, director,...

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Rob Torres

Whether he’s changing his clothes, setting the table, or just sitting down, Rob Torres has a unique way of finding absurdity in everyday tasks. His award winning international comedy has...

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Rob Williams

No telling what he has planned this time but the last time we saw this character perform solo at the Moisture Festival his act consisted of removing meat from plastic...

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Robert Strong

Robert Strong – The Comedy Magician has been entertaining since 1985. He has performed on national television, in all 50 states, in 47 countries, and twice at the White House. He was...

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Roberto the Magnificent

Captivating audiences for more than two decades, Roberto the Magnificent is recognized as one of the nation’s most unique variety acts performing throughout the USA. Roberto learned to juggle and...

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Rod Ferrone

Rod Ferrone has received critical acclaim worldwide for his unique blend of tap dance, comedy, song and hat tricks. He was 1/2 of the critically acclaimed tap/comedy duo Hot Foot....

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Ron W. Bailey

This Cheshire cat grin comes to my face when I watch the artists in the shows at the Moisture Festival. Seems like I was always drawn to skills, skits and...

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Room Circus

Using a playful, interactive approach, Room Circus medical clowns use music, physical comedy, improvisation and circus arts to help transform the health care environment at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the...

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Rootberry

Rootberry is Jonathan Root and Bill Berry, a comedy stunt duo with 3 Guinness World Records and 5 World Championships, it’s no wonder the San Diego Union Tribune said “Possibly...

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Ropeworks Interactive Jump Rope

One’s a local business, owner, another’s a teacher, and the third practices environmental law. But they never grew up! These three rope jumping enthusiasts include Tarilyn Greenfield, Mere Crafton and...

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Rose City Circus

The Rose City Circus features premier acrobats from Portland Oregon. Always looking to expand and defy expectations of what acrobatic circus can be. They been seen on at Fairs and...

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Rosemary Le

Rosemary Le, PhD is an aerial artist specializing in the aerial cyr wheel and aerial hoop.  She grew up with a varied movement background of dance, gymnastics, swimming, and martial...

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Ross Travis (Theodore)

Ross Travis is an award winning Actor/Creator, Bouffon, Physical Comedian and Circus Performer who has studied with world renowned master pedagogues including Dodi DiSanto, Giovanni Fusetti, Ronlin Foreman and Master...

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Rossi and Rose

Mikaela Bianchi and Krista Smithers are lyra duo partners based out of Northern California’s Bay Area. Mikaela began training at Circus Center in San Francisco over a decade ago and...

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Roxana Küwen

Roxana Küwen Arsalan is a circus performer, juggler, trapeze artist and circus researcher of German-Iranian origins. Based in France and Germany she -normally- tours internationally in circus, cabarets and festivals....

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Royal Famille du Caniveaux

Okay, the first thing to know is that the Royal Famillie du Caniveaux may not include all of the people pictured here. The second thing to know is that it...

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Rubberband Boy

If the United States grants him a Visa to perform in our country we will proudly present, in 2012, Rubberband Boy. This act of facial contortion and pogo stick straight...

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Rubbery Fish

They can dance, they are adorable with a good sense of humor … what could possibly go wrong?

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Ruby Joyce

Ruby Joyce has performed as the torch bearer for the Olympic opening ceremonies of the Moisture Festival 2008. Her aerial hoop and trapeze acts have been seen at the Oregon...

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Run For Your Life!

Run For Your Life!’s mission is to make people laugh. Their abstract comedy has no malice or agenda, and their satirical dances point up universal human (or non-human) foibles.

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Russell Bruner

Russell Bruner is a variety artist, swing dancer, emcee and boylesque peeler. As a performer and choreographer, Russell has recently won 3 titles at the world renowned Burlesque Hall of...

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Russian Bar Hoppers

Erica, Marta, and Nick met in 2009 while coaching at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. In their hours between coaching classes they combine their acrobatic and creative...

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Saan Popović

Saan Popović is a 16 year old acrobatics flyer, contortionist, and aerialist. She is very excited to be performing with moisture fest for her third year. This summer she will...

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Sabrina Chap

Sabrina Chap is a Brooklyn based songwriter, cabaret performer, and pianist. Called, ‘Guaranteeably vaudevillian chic’, she is known for her high voltage live performances. ‘Imagine, if you can, Judy Garland...

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Sadie Rose

Sadie Rose teaches at UMO School of Physical Theater on Vashon Island and at Seattle Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. She has received training in aerial arts, acrobatics, dance, and...

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sadye and Poki

Sadye & Poki

Sadye Osterloh has been a giant ham since the moment she was born. Or was it a turkey? As a nationally and internationally touring circus artist, she has a passion for...

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Sadye Osterloh

Sadye Osterloh has been a giant ham since the moment she was born. Or was it a turkey? As a nationally and internationally touring circus artist, she has a passion for...

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Saffi Watson

Saffi has performed in a number of family shows at Teatro Zinzanni where she was a featured contortionist, a hoop and fabric aerialist and was shot out of a cannon...

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Sally Pepper

Sally has exercised a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with...

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SANCA

SANCA (School of Acrobatics & New Circus Arts) is Seattle’s premier circus school and the largest in the United States, with classes for kids and adult. Founded in 2004 by...

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Sandy

Sandy was one of Moisture Festival’s founding members and she continues to find ways to contribute despite the fact that she moved to Denmark several years back. We are so...

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Sara Felder

Sara Felder is a solo theater artist, playwright and juggler. While the themes of her plays and performances are serious, her form is comic, engaging, vaudevillian. She strives to integrate...

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sara sparrow

sara sparrow came to circus through a background as a gymnast, an actor and performer in musical theater, and as a classically-trained singer and musician who also holds a degree...

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Sarah Tapper

Sarah Tapper is a US-based performer and coach who strives to create dynamic & funky circus.  With a background in gymnastics and dance, she currently performs tightwire and single point...

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Sasha Harrington

Sasha Harrington is a San Francisco based performer who does beautiful solo work when she is not performing with her partner Chloe Gordon-Murer as City Circus (also featured at this...

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Scot Nery

Whether Scot is working in theater, at a party or on the small or large screen (he was in Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” and Christinea Aguilera’s...

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Scott Katz

It has been said of Scott Katz that he has “… an insidious charm and truth that sneak up on you like a cartoon mouse with a stick of dynamite”...

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Scott Land Marionettes

Scott Land is a puppeteer at the top of his game. His seasoned performing skills are on display in nearly every scene of Paramount Pictures’ Team America: World Police (script...

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Scotty and Trink

Comedy and Juggling, Unicycling and Bad Judgment. That’s the motto that propels this powerful duo. Scott Meltzer and Katrine Spang-Hanssen specialize in custom scripted presentations for tradeshows, sales meetings and training sessions. Scotty &...

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Shannon Gray

Shannon Gray can be found passing the time doing what many would consider rolling, climbing, releasing, gliding and exploring. She enjoys things which consist of water, mud, trapeze bars, sand,...

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Shannon Gray and Mark Growden

When Shannon Gray performs, one thing is always clear – she loves to move. Discovering circus after a lifetime of movement exploration, it has become the ultimate combination of play,...

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Shayna Swanson

Shayna Swanson has been creating and performing aerial works that have been described by the Chicago Reader as “truly heart-felt and creative” for over 12 years. Renowned for her cyr...

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Shersten Finley

Shersten Finley discovered trapeze studying aerial dance with Do Jump Movement Theatre in Portland Oregon. She appeared as an aerialist in shows with Do Jump including: Now (2002) and Gaviotas...

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Shoehorn

Shoehorn began his musical journey over 40 years ago as a street performer in New Orleans, where he got his first pair of tap shoes. He went on to perform...

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Shovelman

The LA Weekly said “Shovelman has forged a perfect merger of the past and the present with his bluesy ‘folktronic’ sound.” Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding...

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Silkworms

The Silkworms are a Vashon-based aerial ensemble directed by Esther Edelman with Laura Cherry, Glenn Easley, and Julie Gibson. Their eclectic backgrounds include acro-balancing, ballet, high diving and cider brewing....

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Simon Chaban

Trained in Russian acrobatics since the age of six, Simon is a master performer in the circus ring or a cabaret stage. Born and raised in San Francisco, he chose...

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Simon Neale

Simon Neale- One of the founders of the Festival, gained his sense of humor studying the art of English Music Halls. In his teens working at the Holiday camps, along...

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Sirens of Serpentine

What do you get when you mix one part bellydance, one part Fosse and one part Bond Girl? Leslie Rosen’s Sirens of Serpentine! They will shake it! You will be...

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Sisters

The Sisters will be joining Moisture Festival this year for the first time. Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters. Never had to have a chaperone, “No sir”. We’re...

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Skilldini

Skilldini is an award winning and highly accomplished sleight of hand performer with one problem, he’s often not in control. The act, featured on NBC’s Real People and the HBO World...

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Slappy and Monday

Dick Monday and Tiffany Riley have been partners for 20 years. In that time, they have trained all the clowns for the Greatest Show on Earth, created the clown troupe...

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Smerdyakov Karamazov

The brilliant vaudevillian, Ed Wynn, once said “A comedian is not a man who says funny things. A comedian is one who says things funny.” As, variously, a solo performer...

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Smirk!

Physical comedian and maniacal goofball Reid Belstock and innovative juggling ace and straight man Warren Hammond have teamed up to bring you their hilarious and incredible new show, Smirk! Described...

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SNAFU!

Situation Normal until the arrival of Michael Menes and Leland Faulkner, and then the world gets turned on its ear. In the tradition of the classic American comedy teams, SNAFU!...

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Snake Suspenderz

Snake Suspenderz, a quartet featuring vocals, ukulele, trombone, guitar, tuba and drums, call their music “cartoon jazz.” They play a relentlessly quirky blend of novelty songs and hits of the...

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Snatch Adams

A childhood spent traveling with the circus has produced the burlesque babe of buffoonery!  Combining classic skills such as knife-juggling and unicycling with the art of the tease, internationally-known Snatch...

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Snubby J

Snubby J is a multi-talented entertainer known for his highly-energetic performances playing the RimbaTubes, a homemade PVC Pipe instrument built with his father. What started as a hobby making YouTube...

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Soap Bubble Circus

The Soap Bubble Circus from North Carolina will join us this year. Bubbleologist, Steve Langley was/is a skilled juggler yo-yo and paddleball performer and when he then found soap bubbles...

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Sourdough Slim

One of the most original and beloved Western entertainers of our time, Sourdough Slim is a hoot to say the least. The moment this award winning Western showman steps into...

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Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong

Sourdough Slim and his sidekick Robert Armstrong play Western classics, country blues, and string band favorites from rural America in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. You’ll hear virtuoso yodeling and...

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Spencer Androli

Spencer Androli

Spencer Androli is a professional juggler who holds 8 world records. He has also won 3 Juggling World Championships. In 2023, he was voted #1 in the Top 40 Jugglers...

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Spin Doctor

In Greg Palmer’s brilliant PBS documentary, “Vaudeville”, he presented a montage of old film clips and speculated dryly “Vaudeville audiences loved watching things spin.” He would have loved this act....

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Splinter

Splinter Dance Company

Splinter Dance Company, under the umbrella of ajusticenetwork and the fiscal sponsorship of Shunpike, is composed of a diverse group of professional dancers from Seattle who have come together to...

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Squirrel Butter

Squirrel Butter are a Seattle duo made up of Charlie Beck and Charmaine Slaven. These two musicians (both are also performers with the band The Tallboys) perform traditional and original...

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Steel Dolls

Steel Dolls is the collaborative effort of Sydney Lovelle, Julia Schimmel, and Allie Cooper. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the trio draws upon backgrounds in dance, circus, and gymnastics to...

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Stefan Haves

Stefan Haves directed the world-renowned dinner/circus Teatro Zinzanni and is Cirque Du Soleil’s North American “Clown Scout,” responsible for casting clowns, conducting workshops, and assistant directing the 2007 touring show...

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Stefano Iaboni

Producer, managing director and comedy host Stefano Iaboni is an international actor/performer/director and teacher born and raised in Rome … yes, that Rome. He moved to the Netherlands and enrolled...

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Steffon Moody

As a founding member of the acclaimed UMO Ensemble and performer for New York’s Big Apple Circus, Steffon is embedded in a network of amazing performers and artists, and has...

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Steve James

Steve James is a musician, a notable songwriter, one of the best modern bottleneck slide players, a storyteller and a compendium of interesting facts. In the world of contemporary acoustic...

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Steve Owens

14-Time Award Winning magician Steve Owens has appeared on National TV around the World in places like China, Egypt, Thailand, and NBC Prime time in the USA..  He also represented...

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Steve The Pretty Good

Steve is a full time professional entertainer with impressive references from around the world. He is well known in the variety arts community and has won awards as a creative innovator and...

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Steven Flynn

For over 40 years Steven Flynn has been singing and playing piano rooted in blues, boogie woogie, New Orleans R&B, rock & roll and jazz in barrooms, nightclubs, concerts, and...

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Steven Ragatz

Hailed by the San Francisco Examiner as “impressive,” Steven Ragatz has been entertaining audiences with his juggling, physical comedy, circus arts and general antics for the past three decades. As...

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Stevie Coyle

Stevie Coyle’s dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville, his mother played in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s and his father ran a radio station in southern...

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Stoil & Ekaterina

An award-winning magic act from Europe, Stoil & Ekaterina have performed on a number of TV shows, cruise lines, hotels and theaters all over the world. They present a fast-paced,...

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Stratus Circus

Stratus Circus, formerly named The Amazing Circus 1-ders, a troupe of youth ages 5-8, was formed in March of 2008. All of the performers are students at SANCA and have...

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Sunga Rose

Sunga was raised on a diet of musical theater, 70s folk revival, funk and the Beatles. In other words, she has been genre-confused since childhood. Then she heard Mildred Bailey...

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Super8s

The Super8s are a favorite Moisture Festival band. They are back again in 2014 to smooth out the transitions or make them lumpy if that’s what makes more sense.

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Swami Beyondananda

Swami Beyondananda is the cosmic comic alter ego of writer, humorist, performer and uncommontator Steve Bhaerman. The Swami, whose favorite yoga pose is tongue-in-cheek, is the spokesperson for a new...

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Swami YoMahmi

Swami Yomahmi (Yo’ Mommy) performs phenomenal feats of physical comedy and linguistic vaudeville. He creates fractured fairytales drawn from the Sideshow aesthetic, infused with a love of pop culture, witty...

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Sweaty Pies

The Sweaty Pies are a tasty treat being prepared by some of Seattle’s premier aerial artists especially for the first year of Georgetown Moisture Festival shows. Working with the unique...

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Sylvia Rose

As a member of the aerial team, Duo Rose, Sylvia’s work in the air for fourteen years is a well known wonder among the performers in America’s and Europe’s Varieté...

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Tamara the Trapeze Lady

Tamara “The Trapeze Lady” has been gayly spreading love and glitter around the world since 1992. Her aerial education includes early work with Robert Davidson and classes at the San...

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Tank Karo

Tank is a nimble performer who brings both a wicked and beautiful side of circus onto the stage. She is a dancer turned aerialist, who has travelled clear across the...

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Tanya Brno

Tanya (Tova de Luna) has been an influential part of the Seattle circus scene for over 12 years, after having trained most of her life at the nation’s top ballet...

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Tanya Burka

Tanya is a professional aerialist and contemporary circus performer based out of Vancouver, B. C. A gymnast since age 9, contemporary circus proved to be a more natural outlet for...

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Tanya Gagné

Tanya Gagné’s interest in the trapeze all started in a barn in Washington state while she was house-sitting for the Flying Karamazov Brothers. She then quite literally traveled the seven...

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TAQUEET$!

Born and raised in Seattle TAQUEET$! is a dancer with a style all her own. As a child she studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet and Spectrum as well as being...

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Teatro Pachuco

Our longtime friend Rudi Galindo of Los Payasos Mendigos has now returned from Belgium with a friend and fellow performer Lisa da Boit … and they arrive with a new...

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Teatro ZinZanni Artists

Teatro ZinZanni’s main event is part circus, part cabaret, and always magical. Described as “the Kit Kat Klub on acid” Teatro ZinZanni is a night out unlike any other. It...

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Tempo Turn

‘Tempo Turn’ was created by Carly Sheridan and Ivan Dotsenko, it skillfully blends Chinese Pole skills with adagio fluidity. The pole rotates as Carly and Ivan intertwine themselves in unbelievable...

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Tera Nova Zarra

Tera Nova Zarra is a nationally and internationally touring acrobat, aerialist, vocalist, and strong woman. She has trained under the direction of former Austrian sport acrobatics champion and national team...

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Teresa Tudury

Teresa Tudury is an absolute original. From her San Francisco roots to the Greek Islands to New York and LA where she performs her music and/or as a comedian, she...

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Teresita Hilaria Cabrera

She just appeared. We think that she is of Spanish descent, we think that she’s a Seattle girl and we know that she is a remarkable aerial artist. We are...

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Terry Crane

Having languished long enough in higher education, Terry Crane finally surrendered to restless urges that lead him to walk calmly away with the circus at the tender age of 20....

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Terry Crane with Xochitl Sosa

Terry Crane with Xochitl Sosa! We are so excited to have them presenting their combined talents at the 2018 Moisture Festival Cabaret. You are in for a special treat. Having...

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Texas Toasthands

Texas Toasthands gets around. It shouldn’t be surprising when you see the size of his stride. He’s listed as an available stilt walking performer from coast to coast, in Houston,...

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The Cabiri

The Cabiri is a Seattle-based aerial dance troupe, specialize in ‘performative mythology’, theatrical depiction of tales from folklore and mythology. Utilizing modern and aerial dance, stilt walking, physical theatre, and...

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The Dahlias

Christine Lee and Nina Sawant have been performing together since 2017, bonding over their shared love of innovative apparatuses, beautiful costumes, and collaborative performance. As a duo, they have become...

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The Flordigan Can Can Girls

In the 19th century, when specific rules of conduct dictated the behavior of young women, most fell into line willingly. For the famed Can Can dancers, the line formed in...

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The great kaplan

The Great Kaplan

We considered the idea of booking The Very Good Kaplan or The Merely Adequate Kaplan but then we considered what the Moisture Festival audience would find most entertaining. That settled...

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The Highsteppers

The Highsteppers are a brand new scorching hot soul band from Seattle. We play both the hits and deep cuts of the greatest era of music. With a full nine...

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The Innamorati

The Innamorati is the creative collaboration of Quynbi and Eric Esteb. They have been poetically described by Edward S. Koizumi as “abiding in a dimension of dramatic radiance and diminished...

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The Mouth Brothers

Two magicians from the Bronx to Paris, tip toeing on the edge of absurdity. Enforcing laughter through the power of silence. With over 75 years of performing mastery, resulting in...

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The One The Only INGA

The One The Only Inga is an internationally renowned burlesque star, born and raised in Seattle. Her charismatic and precise performances have entertained audiences all over the world, winning her...

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Thom Wall

Thom Wall

You can’t put Thom into a single category – He’s a juggler, Vaudevillian, corporate entertainer, public speaker, family entertainer and a 100% clean comedian. Thom’s show is great entertainment for...

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Thomas John

Thomas John is excited to be returning to the Moisture Fest after taking some time off to compete in America’s Got Talent and tour the German variety theater circuit. Thomas...

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Three Left Feet!

Seattle favorites (and internationally known) aerialists Rachel Nehmer & Ben Wendel of Duo Madrona have been working together with the fabulous aerialist Terry Crane (see separate bio under his name)...

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Thunder

Thunder – Your Fiendishly Funny Friend

I have two website / domain questions if anyone can help. I’m looking to cut costs. 1) I own a bunch of .com domains that are currently parked at GoDaddy,...

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Tina Lenert

Tina Lenert was born in Caracas, Venezuela. At age twelve she moved with her family to Malibu, California and took an interest in performing, first by playing electric guitar in...

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Tom Murphy

Knock ’em down, drag ’em out, laugh till you cry slapstick sketch comedy. Think: Buster Keaton meets Robin Williams. He co-founded two international touring comedy troupes: Mountain Mime and Klown...

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Tom Noddy

Tom has done something unique in show business … he created a new kind of act. When Tom Noddy first took his performance of Bubble Magic onto the Tonight Show...

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Tommy Twimble

International touring physical comedian and storyteller, Thomas Schroyer has performed from the West Coast to NYC and has just returned from a festival/theater tour in South America. Being partially deaf...

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Toy-Box Trio

Founded in 2007 by classical composer Harlan Glotzer, the Toy-Box Trio is devoted to helping audiences experience through-composed music in an entirely different way. The pairing of concertina, toy piano,...

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TRIcycle

Lyla Goldman, Anna Zuckerman, and Leah Zuckerman have worked together as members of SANCA’s Cirrus Circus for over 7 years. They’ve performed in countless shows throughout the Seattle area and...

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Trio Manchego

“Vaudeville audiences loved watching things spin.” Greg Palmer

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Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey

TRIXIE LITTLE & MONKEY are an award-winning acrobatic burlesque superduo who has been flipping and stripping since 2002. Based in New York City, they are known for their highly skilled...

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Truly Remarkable Loon

Yup, that’s right … Moisture Festival has booked a Loon. But not one of those regular or even one of those semi remarkable Loons but, from Madison, Wisconsin (so you...

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Tune Stranglers

Recently referred to as “a circus that plays music”, the Tune Stranglers have been entertaining audiences across the West since 2003. With a smorgasbord of stringed instruments, washboard and the...

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UMO

In the past seventeen years, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative, compelling and critically acclaimed performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. The Ensemble has...

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Uncle Alayna

Despite intermittent affliction with zombie-ism, Uncle Alayna cheerfully and toe-tappingly present crooning swing tunes and traditional standards from heroes past and present; hot musettes from the dance halls of France;...

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Uncle Bonsai

Seattle super-harmonizers UNCLE BONSAI are the Tim Burtons of folk music – dark and hilarious, but with moments of great insight and beauty. With three strong voices and a guitar,...

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Unique Derique

Unique Derique is a longtime San Francisco Bay Area favorite whose dual careers merge the performing arts and healing with the belief that the world can be a brighter place,...

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Valentina

Valentina is a life long performer, choreographer, award-winning educator and coach. Most recently she won a gold medal at 2020 Крылья/ Wings International Aerial Festival for her innovative tension chains...

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Velones

The Velones are Cathy Sutherland and Martha Enson. Between them, the theater arts scene in Seattle is and has been a richer. Aerialistas, Royal Famille du Caniveaux, The Velones, Flying...

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Vic & Nick

Swing into the New Year with the ultra smooth stylings of Vic & Nick, featuring two members of the award winning musical group, “The Bobs”; Vic, also known as Matthew...

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Vivian Tam

With dreams of dazzling since she was even shorter than she is now, Vivian began her beef cake aerial training at Hollywood Aerial Arts with Sagiv Benyamin. Previous confirmed sightings...

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Wang Hong

Wang Hong’s name translates into English as “rainbow” and the spectrum of talents that she employs in her performance are as beautiful and delicate as that ephemeral play of light....

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Warren Hammond

Warren is an exciting performer based in Boulder, CO who seamlessly blends the disparate arts of juggling, comedy and sideshow! After learning to juggle in his hometown of Roanoke, VA...

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Wayne Doba and Andrea Conway-Doba

Wayne Doba and Andrea Conway-Doba have been referred to as a “throwback to the old Vaudeville days” … fans of the Moisture Festival know that that’s a great compliment and...

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Wells and Woodhead

Veterans of film, television, radio and the stage, Wells & Woodhead have thrilled audiences on six continents. Two performers: one outwardly calm, the other wound tighter than a spring. If...

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Wendy Harden

Wendy Harden

Wendy grew up in Northern California balancing on logs, chasing butterflies and twirling bouquets of flowers. Now, Wendy lives in Seattle, balances on her husband’s head, chases after her 2...

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Won Israel

Won Israel is recognized internationally for his visual performance style. He is a protégé of legendary Pantomime Artist Marcel Marceau and he has traveled and toured the world performing his...

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Wren the Juggler

Wren has been entertaining audiences of all ages in Northwest Washington for over a decade by sharing his genuine love of juggling from fairs to corporate events, traveling circuses to...

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Xochitl Sosa

Xochitl Sosa is an Oakland based aerial performer and instructor. She is a graduate of the New England Center for Circus Arts’ (NECCA) Pro-Track Program, with a concentration in dance...

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yo yo guy

Yo-Yo Guy

John Higby is the Yo-Yo Guy! He has performed his unique high-energy comedy yo-yo show in 26 countries from New Zealand to Japan, holds the world yo-yo champion title and...

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Yo-Yo People

As seen on David Letterman, they hold a Guinness World Record, a 2008 Yo-Yo World Champion title, and have performed in over 20 countries. Who would have thought you could...

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Zebra Kings

As you can imagine, some of the Zebra Kings’ band members will miss having their regular springtime positions around the watering hole but most readily agreed that this would be...

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Zero Boy

Zero Boy is an East Village icon and vocal acrobat. His solo comedic routines have been featured throughout the U.S. and Europe in theater, vaudeville, burlesque, television and radio. Known...

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Zipcode Man

Who out of the 6 billion people on this planet can juggle seven balls, invent very funny stories on the spot, and recite the location of every zip code in...

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zoom —– Moisture Festival Volunteer Staff

This is a photo of a fraction of the many volunteers that worked together to pull off a recent Moisture Festival. Many of these hard working happy folk will be...

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