Eden Project

NoFit State Circus’s emerging stars

NoFit State Circus will be performing Labyrinth exclusively at Eden this summer, and, like Eden, they are dedicated to supporting and encouraging new talent. Their apprentice scheme enables emerging performers to train intensively and individually with their professional artists, and then feature in the shows. This is based on the belief that there is no way better way to develop one’s creativity and performance skills than performing to a live audience.

Kate-Inez ,  Zara and Blaze, profiled below, are just three examples of emerging stars on NoFit State apprenticeships who will be performing in the Labyrinth show at Eden this summer.

Kate-Inez Kieran profile

Birthplace: Cork, Ireland

Circus background: attended Circomedia in Bristol and trained at the Jonglier Katakomben in Berlin. She has spent the past year doing an apprenticeship with NoFit State.

Specialist performance skills: cloudswing, aerial hoop and corde lisse.

Most memorable performance: riding a triceratops in the parade at Trash City, Glastonbury Festival in 2009, with her sister in front of thousands.

Why she’s looking forward to performing at Eden: ‘getting to perform in such a spectacular space with such inspirational people’.

Zara Macbeth profile

Birthplace: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire

Circus background: she has always loved climbing and swinging on things and she decided she wanted to be an aerialist at the age of 10 when she saw a circus for the first time. She did a two-year BTEC in performance at Circomedia in Bristol and is now doing a year-long apprenticeship with NoFit State.

Specialist performance skills: swinging trapeze, rope and silks.

Most memorable performances: at the opening of Colston Hall in Bristol, in the Parklife show with NoFit State, and at her grandad’s 80th birthday party.

Why she’s looking forward to performing at Eden: ‘I love circus and I love plants and I am very excited at the two things are going to be in the same place!’

Blaze Tarsha profile

Birthplace: Birmingham but grew up in Bath

Circus background: ‘I was 14 when my mum ran away with the circus. She turned up one day at school to tell me and my teacher that I was leaving to go and tour with NoFit State circus. I was sad to leave school and my friends behind. However, NoFit State changed my aspirations, and I was told by one of the performers that there was a performance/circus college called Circomedia. I then completed my GCSEs and went on to achieve a Triple Distinction in Circus and Performance Arts. I stayed at Circomedia to do a Foundation Degree, which I finished this summer.

Specialist performance skills: aerial, mainly hoop, and physical theatre.

Most memorable performance: Performing Aerial hoop in an ensemble for Bristol’s Colston hall re-launch, in which we performed for thousands and had our very own live orchestra.

Why she’s looking forward to performing at Eden: ‘I’m very excited about performing in Eden in such a beautiful atmosphere and I feel very privileged to be apart of such a huge and spectacular production.’

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