Lyra Solo Demo Reel
Lyra solo performance teaser 2024. Music: Sparks by LAAKE
Growing up, though she loved the idea of acting, Elena found herself gravitating behind the stage, especially in college where she worked on the technical stage crew at the Lied Center of Kansas learning everything it takes to put on full-scale Broadway productions to intimate lecture series.
Elena’s passion for aerial & circus arts started soon after her undergrad and had begun working full-time as a fitness wearables User Experience Designer while researching fitness trends. She took a lyra class in 2011 and hasn’t gotten off the hoop since. Realizing aerial & circus arts are the perfect combination of all her interests (design, artistic & physical expression, stage production, fitness) she began apprenticing at the Quixotic School of Performing Arts in 2012 and later became a founding member of Kansas City Aerial Arts (formerly Lucia Aerial Performing Arts) where she coached aerial & fitness classes. In addition she has taken on several production & performance roles including prop, makeup, costume, and graphic design. She moved to Portland in 2015 for 18 months where she continued developing as a circus artist at Pendulum Aerial Arts, The Circus Project, and Night Flight Aerial as well as traveling around the west coast to find as much training as she could. She returned to her roots in Kansas City in 2017 to perform, choreograph, and coach circus skills to all levels, most recently through Circus Scorpius and Great Plains Circus Center.
Photo Galleries
Solo Lyra
Duo Kelaini
Straps
Other/Misc
Videos
Lyra act from Acacia Fund 8th Annual Fundraiser at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, MO.
Music: Egyptic by Beats Antique.
Video: Stephen Goldblatt, Oct 2018.
Brief teaser version of my lyra act (total time ~7:20, but shorter versions are available). Full version available on request.
Music: Wicked Games by Black.
Choreography: Rachel Strickland + Elena Sherman.
Video: Wittypixel Photography, 2016.