'AWE INSPIRING' - Outline Online Magazine
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'Fast and furious ... Daisy's a nuclear genius with those hula hoops.' - Mardi Gras Magazine
'Book her.' - Abi Collins 'Breathtaking' - NorwichBlog.com 'Never less than enthralling.' - Rod Laver CLICK FOR SHOWREEL Director, founder and creative producer of Gossamer Thread Circus, Daisy Black is a multi-skilled and versatile circus artist, producer, teacher & writer. Her skills range from graceful aerial artistry to swallowing razorblades, spinning flaming hula hoops and dancing on broken glass. In 2012 Daisy and partner Alex McAleer combined their disparate skill sets to create Gossamer Thread Circus, devising various original double-acts blurring the boundaries of cabaret, theatre, magic, circus and sideshow. These include audience favourite the star-crossed Love Machines, and Carny & The Tramp’s incomparable and unique tango on broken glass. Her performance work has taken her all over Europe & the UK for cabarets, corporate events & festivals. International credits include Vienna, Zurich, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Paris, Geneva, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Berlin’s famous Wintergarten. In 2017-18 she completed a European tour with Party Like Gatsby. She has collaborated on a multitude of theatre & circus productions since 2016 that have appeared at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Jacksons Lane, Underbelly's Southbank Speigeltent, as well as producing acclaimed Gossamer Thread's Curious Cabaret at Norwich Arts Centre & Norwich Playhouse. ‘Quite simply the best show in town’ - Future Radio In 2017 she was awarded Arts Council England funding to create a two-person show ‘Folie a Deux’ with Alex McAleer, which appeared at Postcards Festival at Jacksons Lane in 2018. Since graduating from the Creative Writing Masters Degree programme at the University of East Anglia (where she was mentored by Giles Foden & Ali Smith, CBE), she has been working on a book about the history of circus. In 2018 Daisy combined years of research, a background in theatre & both her passions to create the Gossamer Thread Circus’s first ensemble show ‘250 Years of Circus in 60 Minutes,’ marking 250 years since the birth of circus. The show launched the Circus 250 celebrations in Norwich in 2018 and was supported by Arts Council England, Norwich Arts Centre, Seachange Arts, Jacksons Lane & sponsored by Norfolk Gin. Learn more about the show and Gossamer Thread Circus here and watch the trailer here. “Incredible and intense 60 minutes of my life - go and see it!” “Quirky, beautiful, funny with moments that took my breath away” - Audience members “One of the most ambitious circus performances that has ever taken place in Norwich Arts Centre, it was an absolute joy to watch” - Pasco Kevlin, Director Norwich Arts Centre 'They are exceptionally talented at what they do… They innately seem to understand the alchemy of telling a story onstage… Their work is innovative and familiar, exciting and emotional, and utterly wonderful to watch.' — Vivacity Bliss, producer of Cabaret Roulette — With a background in theatre lighting design, Daisy began pointing lights at famous people (including Chuck Berry, Michael Nyman, Russel Brand) at the age of fifteen, alongside college and her undergrad degree, before scaling the dizzy heights of the big top in 2012 where, after teaching herself to hula-hoop, she joined a traditional circus and toured around East Anglia. Since then, she has travelled all over the UK to train with some of the of the most highly-skilled circus artists in the business. She has trained in London, Sheffield, Great Yarmouth, Indonesia and Liverpool, constantly honing her skills. Learning from a diverse array of specialists encouraged Daisy to devise original ideas and continue to development artistically and technically. A background steeped in art and writing lends her work a unique combination of narrative, artistic composition, musicality and humour.
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Light Leaks
Dom Martin x 2
Black Cravat Photography
Light Leaks
John Paul Bichard