Emily Cutler

Natalya Howard

Josh Ward

Jessica Skelton

Rachel Oram

Luke Davies

Kieran Procter

Clarissa Hustler

Shane Masterman

Dave Young

As a member of The Remix, Dave performed in Breathe at the opening of the Olympics in Weymouth and travelled to Brazil to work with disability dance groups. Dave performed his poetry at the opening of the Paralympic games as part of the ‘Seen but Seldom Heard’ project and at Funky Llama Festival, Plymouth Theatre Royal.

Dave was a Fixer on ITV Meridian in 2014 where he explored perceptions of disability and asked people not to write off wheelchair users. He has written a book of poetry called the Shouting Mute and made several films. Dave is involved in several Diverse City projects including The Complete Freedom of Truth and Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists, and has documented the work of Extraordinary Bodies through poetry and film.

Beth Alsbury

Freya Garner

Hugo Lucas-Rowe

Rebecca Gear

Hi I’m Becca and I’m from Bournemouth, I joined the EBYA family in 2015 and began my circus journey. With EBYA we created ensemble work that included theatre, movement and aerial. I also got the opportunity to travel to Bosnia with EBYA and teach my skills to others, along the way learning many of new skills, such as parkour!
Thanks to EBYA, I am now currently a second year degree student at the National Centre for Circus Arts, my discipline is dance trapeze and I also have a love for acrobatics, handstands, movement and much more!
Working with  a group of disabled and non-disabled artists really opened my perspective of circus, it was really lovely to work with such a beautiful group of people.

Anthony Periera

Milton Lopes

Actor, Circus Artist

Milton Lopes was born in Cape Verde and grew up in Portugal, where he worked as an actor in various TV Shows, Theatre and Films. He won the Best Actor Award playing Domingos in the film O Delfim. Speaker of four languages, Milton has worked in Portugal, France, Angola, Mexico and the UK. As an aerialist he performed in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and Extraordinary Bodies’s show Weighting. He works regularly with Graeae Theatre Company having played the lead role Macheath in Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, a co-production by Graeae, New Wolsey Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep.

Milton has also worked in Early Days Of Better Nation, by Coney directed by Annete Mees. He played Peter in Bonobo a feature film by Matthew Hammet Knott. In 2016 he portrayed John The Savage in Brave New World for BBC Radio 4, directed by David Hunter; worked as an Aerialist in Calling Tree, Arts Admin production, directed by Rosemary Lee and Simon Whitehead; participated in the smash hit Portuguese Telenovela A Unica Mulher produced by Plural Entertainment for TVI.

In 2017 Milton toured Wales playing Areal in The Tempest by Taking Flight. In 2018 He played The Australian Aboriginal in Our Country’s Good, a Ramps On The Moon Production, played Athos in The Three Musketeers (The Dukes Park Show) directed By Sarah Punshon. He is in Death Of A Salesman, directed by Sarah Punshon at Royal Exchange in Manchester, playing Stanley The Waiter.

Milton is currently developing his own show,Elephant, with a cast of D/deaf and disabled performers, using aerial circus, theatre and live music.

Karina Jones

Actor, Artist - Wales

Karina Jones is an actor and aerial artist. At age 13 Karina became disabled through a degenerative sight condition, but she didn’t let that discourage her. Karina studied Acting at university, followed by an MA in Voice Studies from Central. In 2012, she answered a call out for disabled artists to perform at the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. She took part in an intensive training course for circus and aerial work at Circus Centre London, where her passion for circus was realised. From here Karina continued her training at the Green Top Circus in Sheffield, and joined the Extraordinary Bodies team for the premiere of Weighting in 2013. She described the elation and freedom of swinging on an aerial hoop high in the air as one of her biggest achievements.

John Kelly

Musician, singer, songwriter

John is a self taught musician and singer / songwriter. He has performed all over the world from Brazil to Estonia, playing for audiences of thousands. Most memorably he performed for 200,000 as part of an anti-austerity protest in Parliament Square, and for 80,000 in the Olympic Stadium as part of the Paralympic Opening Ceremony. John has played rock n roll in Memphis and Nashville, and has sang with the Blockheads, but his favourite gigs have been in the smallest of pubs back home in Ireland ‘with close family, friends, a packet of Taytos and a pint of the black stuff!’

John is proud to be a Disability and Human Rights Campaigner and has been most fighting for rights to Independent Living. On top of all that he is also a youth worker and a qualified facilitator who works with many different organisations to develop creative & inclusive practice.

Rowan Fae

Daryl Beeton

David Ellington

Dancer, Actor and Film Producer - Bristol

Dancer, Actor and Film Producer David Ellington is recognisable across the country for his multiple television appearances, including his ground-breaking in-vision signer role for the Channel 4 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games trailer. He has performed in multiple productions with Graeae, won best actor for his performance in DEF at the ‘Deaf Oscars’ Award Ceremony, and was also part of the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony. David is profoundly Deaf and a British Sign language user, who since being in Extraordinary Bodies has developed aerial circus skills to add to his bag of tricks.

Dave Young

As a member of The Remix, Dave performed in Breathe at the opening of the Olympics in Weymouth and travelled to Brazil to work with disability dance groups. Dave performed his poetry at the opening of the Paralympic games as part of the ‘Seen but Seldom Heard’ project and at Funky Llama Festival, Plymouth Theatre Royal.

Dave was a Fixer on ITV Meridian in 2014 where he explored perceptions of disability and asked people not to write off wheelchair users. He has written a book of poetry called the Shouting Mute and made several films. Dave is involved in several Diverse City projects including The Complete Freedom of Truth and Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists, and has documented the work of Extraordinary Bodies through poetry and film.

Flora Alwen

Circus Director: EBYA - Frome

Flora worked as a Circus Performer for over 10 years, specialising in in aerial acts (silks, rope, hoop, static and swinging trapeze). Her company ‘La Seda’ provided aerial acts for events across the globe, including Royal Albert Hall London, Monte Carlo, Rome, Paris and Toronto.

She also worked for The Dream Engine as one of the Heliosphere aerialists, and for Cirque Bijou as an Aerial Choreographer. Flora is now the Subject Lead for Circus at Steiner Academy Frome and runs the youth circus programme Circus Stars Frome.