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Enhancing health & performance of artistic athletes through research, education & physical therapy.

04/20/2026

🎭Thank you to & .con_ed for the invitation to create and teach this course for the performing arts fellowship curriculum. It was great to also invite the community and to have a group of physical therapists and students new to the circus arts. The need for healthcare providers with an understanding of the demands of circus training and performing is great.

🎪We dove into the details around physiologic and biomechanical demands of various circus disciplines, discussed case examples and heard artist perspectives. A special thank you to for joining us and sharing your experience!

🤸🏽‍♀️Participants also got a feel for being upside down and hanging while considering alignment and muscle activation and went through clinical examination and exercises in the context of different groups of circus disciplines.

It was full and fun day and also a treat to be back in the place I started my physical therapy training!

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04/13/2026

Just returned from a rainy but sweet trip with my family to Montreal and Miami to spend some quality time with our extended circus family!

We were fed and pampered by & and almost won over the newest member of their family! Thanks for keeping us warm in the last stretch of Montreal’s winter.

Then on to Miami to finally see .rossi & .sok95 shine in .cirquedusoleil! Thanks for making time to hang with us Such a beautiful show! And lovely to meet & since I’ve been hearing about them for ages!

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04/01/2026

Back to school at the beautiful new campus in Downtown Oakland! Stunning city views from the classrooms. It will be so nice to teach in these beautiful spaces and to explore the neighborhood and all the great restaurants!

I was also very excited to see the new Motion Analysis Research Center rigged and ready to go for my aerial research. Looking forward to getting back to work on this with and Drew Smith!

02/18/2026

Thanks to and the Performing Arts Special Interest Group for having us at the Combined Sections Meeting in Anaheim! It was such a pleasure and privilege to present the new guidelines for concussion management in dance and circus arts with and ! We appreciate everyone that got up early on a Saturday to join us! The recording will be available starting March 1st for conference registrants.

It was also amazing to reconnect with my professors, mentors, colleagues and former students all in one place!

And so lucky to finish the trip off with a little Valentines Day celebration courtesy of and a couple days with my family and some friends at ! The celebration of the Lunar New Year and the diversity of our community at was especially meaningful!

02/06/2026

We are looking forward to sharing the new dance and circus guidelines for concussion management at Combined Sections Meeting next week!

Bring your ☕️ and join us on Saturday, February 14th 8-9:30am or catch the recording if you are attending online.

will be sharing the state of research on concussion for dance and circus arts. And and I will presenting the new guidelines in a case format to help rehab professionals to apply the guidelines.

Hope to see you there!!

Also both guidelines are published and available online open access.

11/25/2025

Skip to the end of Chapter 12 in “An International Circus Affair” for a spotlight on Pickle Family Circus clown, Diane “Pino” Wasnak and the story of how Master Lu Yi chose to pass on his bike act to her in 1990. This was an act tossing bowls on a bike. One he created and performed first in China.

Pino spent 8 hours a day, 7 days a week learning to ride the bicycle backwards in a circle for a 1000 circles each time. Next came learning to kick metal bowls onto her head while riding the bike backwards.

It took 2 years to get this act to performance level and she went on to perform this act all over the world for more than 25 years. When Diane retired from this act, she passed it on to .quesada, a San Francisco Youth Circus alumni who was also trained by Lu Yi and Xia Ke Min. Ori premiered this act a few months ago with .

11/24/2025

What a special recognition from the Circus Historical Society just in time for the one year anniversary of the publication of “An international circus affair: How a Nanjing acrobat in San Francisco changed American circus forever.”

The Stuart Thayer Prize is an award that recognizes the highest quality research, scholarship, and writing about American circus history. Our book was a finalist for the 2025 award.

Thanks to for inviting me to be a part of this incredible project with .quesada and capturing the story of Master Lu Yi and his influence on San Francisco circus community.

11/22/2025

Newest publication by the SIRC working group! Thanks to & David Munro for collaborating on this!

This chapter consolidates injury surveillance research in circus and aligns it, as possible, with our earlier consensus statement for recording and reporting methods of injuries and illness. We also make recommendations for interpreting the existing research and directions for future research.

Ours is one chapter in this entire book dedicated to performing arts medicine.

Available now at major bookstores as an ebook or softcover book.

10/24/2025

📝The submission deadline for the next general issue of Circus: Arts, Life & Sciences is November 1st, 2025. This is the only research journal dedicated to the circus arts and is completely open access. I serve as the co-editor of the sciences so please reach out with any questions.

The journal co-hosted the first day of the Australian Cirvus Summit and brought a little magic to the day. He is co-chief editor with the also magical .

🦘The day before the summit Emily O’Connor and David Munro took the CALS team to the Healesville Sanctuary to experience the amazing animals of Australia. Truly amazing day!

10/18/2025

A few highlights from an amazing few days at the Australian Circus Summit hosted by . The first day brought together circus researchers from around the world including all but one of our SIRC team, Janine Stubbe David Munro & Veronique Richard.

The 1st day was co-sponsored by Circus: Arts, Life and Sciences, our open access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to circus. It was also great to catch up with my fellow editors and talk to potential authors about submitting to the journal.

The summit brought together researchers, artists, coaches, artistic directors and performing arts administrators. We need more opportunities like this to learn from and support each other in helping the circus arts to thrive!!

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