Past Performances

The theme for this years Ball of Witches was glamour and gore — and what else would you expect from a Halloween masquerade ball?  As for your favorite local aerialists, we brought the witches to their namesake ball, flying on broom and casting spells on the crowd from above.   The lobby of the gorgeous Statler Hotel was crawling with glamorous oddities, and all of Statler’s many ballrooms were decked out with sparky and spooky amazingness. https://www.witchesballbuffalo.com/ Photos by Glenn Murray

The inaugural Doom n Boom event was Buffalo’s heaviest Halloween party.  The event brought national musical acts together with carnival rides, fire performers and stilt walkers from Showstarters Entertainment and some high flying aerial acts from you-know-who.  Riverworks has the best ceilings in town for aerial arts!  And some of the best music too.  We loved rocking out with Sullivan King, SWARM, and Sandman Metallica tribute

We loved getting our art on for the hip happenings of Play/Ground.  With tons of local artistic talent, this event engaged the senses, expanded the mind, and inspired imagination. We performed at the Friday evening Preview Party alongside some amazing inflatable sculpture from Chicago artist Claire Ashley.

Music is Art is an ever-evolving experience.  This year the festival expanded beyond just the Riverworks terrace into the neighboring grain elevators.  It was so much fun to perform aerial fanciness in Buffalo’s famous industrial landscape, dressed up with some striking sculptures by local artists Tara Sasiadek and Marquis Burton.  These concrete relics were the perfect complement to our splashy circus tricks, a unique combo that reflects Buffalo’s rebirth in the arts and culture. Read all about it

We love this festival!  It brings together people from all over the Western New York region and showcases their creativity.  If you love dressing up, the Victorian era, sci fi, or just a quality festival with lots to do and see, you’ll find this place a hoot. There are top-notch vendors, food trucks, and entertainment, not to mention all of the fanciful costumes.  This year is the first year that the event will be at the Orleans Co. Fairgrounds rather than at its namesake winery, but there’s sure to be a plentiful supply of the famous Steampunk cider all the same. As for our performance, after 4 years of this event, we think this one is going to be our best yet.  We’ve got steampunkier costumes, a new taller rig, and lots of new shenanigans and stunts.   It’s the whole kit and caboodle, so don’t be a noodle and miss this

We were so happy to be back at Buffalo’s best arts festival!  Perhaps we’re slightly biased, but we love that EAFA features performing artists so prominently.. The 2019 EAFA performance was choreographed by Jess BG, as described below: Buffalo Aerial Dance (BAD) performs cirque-style aerial arts on a variety of apparatus including aerial silks and trapeze.  This year’s piece centers on female strength and empowerment.  They demonstrate the limitless capabilities of women through physical feats of strength and flexibility. Their piece also symbolizes intangible support for one another and womankind through physically supporting each other in the air.

We are so grateful to have been a part of the Old Falls Street Summer Concert series for Summer 2019! August 23 was our final performance of the summer, and we drew inspiration from famous movie dance scenes for a feel-good set that was a crowd favorite.   Scenes that we recreated were a mix of the classics: Footloose, Grease, Center Stage, Pulp Fiction, Moulin Rouge, Flashdance, Donnie Darko, and of course Dirty Dancing!

For our third show of the Old Fall Street summer series, we embodied the elements Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water in an original B.A.D. creation.  The four elements harmonized, flowing, floating, flower-izing and flaming into a wonderful show that stopped pedestrians on the street in their tracks to watch!

If you know anything about Western New York in mid-July, you know the weather is very hot and humid, but that didn’t stop us from rocking our third set on Old Falls Street.  The evening’s musical headliner, Zak Ward Trio, is known for bringing the classics of rock’n’roll to the stage and we did the same–just up an extra 20 feet or so in the air.  Dr. Suess might’ve said that the riffs were catchy, the melodies steady, the energy contagious, and the aerialists courageous, and that sums it up nicely.  Also, it was tons of fun to wear these black and silver outfits designed by Eric Gorsuch.

We pride ourselves on versatility with themes, covering everything from jungle animals to the roaring 20s, but we decided to give the people a classic circus-style show for the nation’s birthday.  With carnival-inspired music, stripey costumes, and gravity-defying feats, we delivered one of our most high energy performances to date.  It felt great to show off some homegrown WNY talent to the out-of-towners visiting the falls for the holiday.