Contact :

marina.mezzogiornobrown@gmail.com

Marina is a professional contemporary circus performer specialized in aerial rope, and a visual artist.

She discovered circus in 2009 in the nightlife of New York, learning and performing at the Circus Warehouse and The House of Yes, while finishing her BA in liberal arts (ethnography and contemporary aesthetics) from The Evergreen State College. In 2013 she graduated from Flic Scuola di Circo (Torino, Italy).

Since then has dedicated herself to artistic research, circus shows, visual art, travel, and sharing what she learns through workshops and teaching. She currently works with Collectif And Then…  (UK), with Cie Pieds Perchés (CZ/FR), and with artist Natalie Oleinik. She has a long running collaboration with MagdaClan Circo (IT).

Through the rich and immersive world of circus tent life she has come into contact with all aspects of a show from the artistic creation and set/prop design, to setting up the sound and light systems; from PR, promotion and grant writing, to performing before a live audience.

Marina was trained in visual art by her grandmother, sculptor Bonnie Jean Malcolm, starting before she could fully control her hands and ending when Bonnie passed away at 100 in 2022. Her paintings and decor work appear in festivals and buildings in Seattle (Othello Building), Amsterdam (Jetlag Festival), Italy (Cleolo, MagdaClan, Fantasy Festival), and have been published in The Nunatak outdoor journal. She is currently collaborating with author and performer Tay Lane to illustrate their book “A Show of Hands”.