Episode #48: Circus Will Change The WORLD with Amy Christian

Shannon invades the kitchen of Amy Christian, the artistic director of Wise Fool New Mexico. Amy is on the forefront of a section of circus known as social circus. In this interview, she begins to define social circus as, “using circus to work with under-served or marginalized communities.” In the next breath, she says, “all those words are yucky and I hate them. Show Notes: Wise Fool New Mexico: https://wisefoolnewmexico.org/ Zapatist Revolution: http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/news-item/the-zapatista-movement-the-fight-for-indigenous-rights-in-mexico/ Massacre at Octaal: https://www.revcom.us/a/v19/940-49/941/chiap.htm adrienne maree brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ A message from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uTH0iprVQ   Please won’t you be a Patreon?: http://www.patreon.com/theartistathlete This podcast is dedicated to CIRCUS. Aerialist, Shannon McKenna interviews guests from acrobats in Cirque du Soleil to circus therapists and everyone in between. Learn the backstage lives of those who flip, twist, sparkle, and shine under the big top. Shannon McKenna is an internationally recognized circus performer and coach. For the past decade, she has been a freelance artist: giving workshops and classes across 7 countries and working on and back stage for both traditional and contemporary circus shows in the US, Portugal, Germany, and Australia. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration on post-modern physical theater (how’s that for a mouthful?). She founded The Artist Athlete in 2018 as a means to produce educational materials for aerial artists and a podcast in which she interviews experts in the circus industry about their careers. If you’re reading this, you’re probably listening to it. Thank you! She currently lives in Atlanta, GA USA, but gravitates towards whichever circus community is the warmest. Find her online: www.theartistathlete.com Facebook: The Artist Athlete Instagram: @the_artist_athlete