Michelle Dortignac Aerial Acrobat
Aerial Acrobat pierces your mental armor
Emotionally and spiritually uplifting works
Making audiences forget the heaviness of gravity
Specializing in theatrical aerial acts
Always tasteful, even when passionate
"achingly beautiful", "mesmerizing"
American Express Webmercial
The video to the right is an excerpt from an interactive web commercial for the American Express Gold Card, featuring Michelle Dortignac, Aerial Acrobat.
The entire interactive commercial can be seen here.
Available Acts
Aerial Acrobat is available as an aerial circus art performer, or as a choreographer of aerial circus acts. New acts can be created in a theatrical style, or a traditional circus style. Or, you can select and/or modify an existing act.
Contact (or call 917-312-4339) for more information on booking Aerial Acrobat performances; or to see full length videos of the available acts.
Meditation - solo Silks (5:37)
Serene ascension into the sky
Aerial Yoga/Unnata - solo Hammock (5:45)
Spinning contortion
Niiswi - male/female duo Rope Loop (5:32)
Mirror images and partnering tricks
Buttobi - solo Silks (5:35)
Displaying cat-like reflexes and flexibility
For Joshua - solo Silks (6:19)
Soulfully slow, way to go
Solo Again - solo Double Rope Loop (6:15)
Interplay between two levels of Rope Loops
Michelle Dortignac Biography
Michelle Dortignac has been a New York City artist, dancer and performer for the past 15 years. She has always enjoyed participating in the uncommon side of the performance and entertainment world, allowing her to explore a wide range of movement and performance techniques. During her career, Michelle has trained in and performed Aerial Acrobatics, Corporeal Mime, Butoh, Contact Improvisational Dance, and Yoga. She has even developed her own style of Yoga - Unnata® Aerial Yoga which is gaining worldwide notice. She has performed in such unique and diverse locations as the airport in El Salvador, Central America, the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage (Brooklyn, NY), the Joyce Theater (NY, NY), and the Dallas Cowboys stadium in Dallas, TX. She is also a founding member of Suspended Cirque, New York City's only Aerial Circus Theater troupe.
As a choreographer, Michelle creates (and has created) her own routines in the air, on the floor, and for video.
Download full résumé here (PDF format).
For more information on booking Aerial Acrobat performances; or to see full length videos of the available acts, contact:
Email:
Tel: (917) 312-4339