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Elsie Smith & Serenity Smith Forchion are identical twins specializing in aerial acrobatics. Their teaching & performing backgrounds include a 4 year tour on Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco, as well as Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, Circus of the Kids, the New Pickle Circus, Pilobolus, the Actor's Gym, Circus Juventus, Umo Ensemble & Canopy Aerial Dance Studio. As performers they present a duo trapeze and duo fabric act, as well as various solos on aerial apparatus. Serenity also performs a partner handbalancing act with her husband, Bill Forchion.
As teachers, Serenity helped found the San Francisco School of Circus Arts & was Pilates captain for Saltimbanco where she worked closely with physical therapists to promote injury prevention & rehabilitation. Elsie taught aerials at the SFSCA, has a coach's certification in trampoline, & has choreographed for the UGA Dance department, Circus Smirkus & Sea World, among others
The twins choreograph for circus, dance & theater and offer workshops and residencies to circus schools, dance companies and performers. They perform & teach around the world & are happy to have their own performance troupe to create & play with. For more information about Elsie & Serenity as performers and for residency information, visit www.trapezetwins.com
In 2003 they founded NIMBLE ARTS their Vermont based trapeze & circus school that transitioned into the New England Center for Circus Arts in 2007. The two continue to teach at NECCA and work as Artistic Director and Executive Director of the growing school.
www.trapezetwins.com.
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"I like NECCA because we can do a lot of athletic stuff and it doesn't have the same kind of toxicity of gymnastics. I like the people who teach there. I love that we do circus stuff, because it's rare. I get a lot of street cred at school for it. And it helps me stay in shape. I just love it!"
Janet's daughter, Fiona, age 15
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