DANIELLE GENNAOUI

Danielle Gennaoui (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary circus and theatre artist currently based in Chicago, IL. Specializing in aerial arts,  partner acrobatics, and physical theatre, Danielle has been coaching, performing, and choreographing professionally for over 14 years.

 

Danielle is a first-generation Lebanese-American who grew up in St. Louis, MO. Since she was little, Danielle loved to direct plays in her parents’ basement, climb every tree in sight, and spin around in circles until she fell over. Fortunately, not much has changed (though the falling over is fewer and further between). Danielle took her first aerial class in 2008 and immediately fell in love with the art of circus. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, focus in directing and performance, from Jordan College of the Arts at Butler University and is a graduate of The Aloft Circus Arts Full-Time Training Program (Major: Lyra). 

 

Danielle is proud to have created new work, performed, and coached with: The Actors Gymnasium, Aloft Circus Arts, Circus Harmony, Chicago Center for Dynamic Circus, MSA & Circus Arts, Gravity Aerial Arts, Thodos Dance Chicago,  Apple Tree Theatre, Sussurus Performance Group, Indianapolis New Art Theatre, CircEsteem, Cabinet of Curiosity, The Brass Ring, Bounce Gymnastics, and The Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

Specialties: Lyra, Static & Dance Trapeze, Silks, Duo Lyra, Duo Trapeze, Partner Acrobatics, Physical Theatre

 

Additional Skills: Sling, Chinese Pole, Rope, Spanish Web, Clowning, Stilt-Walking, foundational Tumbling, foundational Juggling, Voice - Mezzo Soprano  

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*CV available upon request.