For the past three years Aussie circus star Angelique Ross has based herself in Belfast and is now set to make her début at the city’s Festival of Fools this coming Bank Holiday weekend.
Performing her ‘Spit’ show Angelique’s show will be on Monday, May 6 at Writer’s Square at 3pm and 5pm.
The 27-year-old visited here for a week, and has been here for three years, entertaining and educating as well as working with Belfast Community Circus School.
“I’m really happy to be performing in the city I now live.” Angelique said.
Qualified with a Bachelor of Circus Arts in Melbourne, Australia and trained with Lunar Kids in a shed in Karridale, rural Western Australia she has travelled the world with her act.
“It’s a messy one-woman Circus Revenge. Brutality balanced by beauty,” Angelique explained.
An award winning relentlessly ferocious circus show. Tight wire, tricks and tomatoes.
“It’s about attack hard and spit back,” she said.
It comes after a long journey that began as an 11-year-old climbing trees and learning some “DIY pyrotechnics”.
As well as shows for NoFit State’s Bianco, Tumble Circus’ Unsuitable, Maxima’s Fearless and her own Spit Angelique has one series of dates that sticks in her mind.
“My biggest Circus achievement is touring my solo show to Australia. And surviving!”
Listing her hobbies as “gardening and knife throwing” Angelique reckons her biggest lesson in the business is how to put up a big top, as well as rescuing one in extreme winds.
She said her show will be a “one woman circus revenge with tight wire, tricks and tomato throwing.”
Angelique has toured as a soloist and in companies throughout Australia, Europe, Hong Kong and New York.
After her show at Festival of Fools Angelique will take on an Irish tour.
This year’s Festival of Fools takes place from Friday 3 – Monday 6 May
It is jam-packed full of the best local and international circus and street arts talent. Expect to be dazzled and delighted as professional and community performers from around the globe capture your imagination, wow you with their skills and escort your dropped jaw through the streets of Belfast.
This year the festival is once again supported by Arts Council for Northern Ireland; Belfast City Council; Department for Communities; Destination CQ; Tesco; Tourism Northern Ireland; Third Source; Excalibur Press; Ramada Encore Hotel.
For full details on the Festival of Fools check out the programme on the websitewww.foolsfestival.com