Elizabeth can perform a set routine for you, rove and interact with guests or tailor-make a particular performance for your event. For example, you may want a 5 minute handstand routine for a stage show, or a roving clown character for a festival. Just make contact and explain your event, and Elizabeth can discuss which option will work best.

Requirements

Elizabeth has a number of requirements for performing specific acts. The following are for individual acts, but there may be times when partner or group acts are possible. Elizabeth is fully insured for her performances.

Handstand routine (set routine while audience is still): A flat surface is required (hard if possible, but grass is also fine). Ground space of approximately 3x3m (minimum). A ceiling height of no less than 2.5m. A sound system for music. Note: Elizabeth can perform on her own handstand prop, which is 90cm high.

Handstand background (handstand skills performed either still or roving while audience is moving): Enough room to move in, but only a small space is necessary.

Clown roving (interacting with audience as they are moving): Enough room to move in, but only a small space is necessary.

Tightwire (set routine while audience is still): A tightwire (not highwire) and qualified rigger available.

Aerial (set routine of static trapeze or rope while audience is still): A static trapeze or rope and qualified rigger available. Sufficient ceiling height.

For examples of past performances, please see the Photo gallery and Video gallery.

Payment

Payment for a performance can be negotiated, depending on the conditions and employer. Elizabeth is also available for community non-profit events as a volunteer, although travel expenses would be appreciated. Please contact to discuss.

Act Description (for 7 minute set routine: Deluding Gravity)

Have you ever wondered if being upright is the right way up? What if there is another way to see the world; by balancing on hands, rather than feet? In Deluding Gravity you will be taken on a journey (that could be yours) towards an upside down perspective and a meaningful life.

Elizabeth’s grace and unique ability in her handstand act is both amazing and inspiring; she musters extraordinary strength to reach unlikely positions and splits her legs into contorted positions while balancing on one hand.

This act, however, is a more than a simple visual feast; it is a story about searching for a new way of living. Elizabeth is an anonymous heroine who questions the upright, mundane world as we know it. She descends from the everyday to land on her hands and discovers a new dimension where anything is possible. Problems arise, but she finally overcomes these to achieve a dream. This performance will motivate young and old alike to go beyond their comfort zones and try something new.

Elizabeth attributes the inspirations for her piece to such sources as Plato’s cave story in The Republic and Richard Bach’s Jonathon Livingston Seagull. She was assisted by Mathew Louden as the narrator and trained by James Brown in hand balancing. She collaborated with Adrian Dimitirievitch, Kate Herbert and John Saunders on direction/choreography and Amanda Fairbanks with her costume design and production.