Owen Gaynor

Owen is a Manchester-based circus performer and teacher. He has walked on wires, juggled fire and flown through the air all over the world. When he's not away performing, you can find him teaching and sharing his skills at The Circus House in Longsight, Manchester.

Louiseanne Wong

Louiseanne Wong (she/they) is a non-binary movement artist, dancer, choreographer and coach with Esprit Concrete. Her roots are from Hong Kong, and she studied for her bachelors in Music at the University of Manchester and Choreography MA at Trinity Laban, London. She fuses dance, circus, parkour and l'art du déplacement to map herself in space, searching for authentic connections with herself and audiences. She explores her identity and East Asian heritage through playing with non-horizontal dimensions, object manipulation and overcoming obstacles.

Louiseanne's performance and coaching work revolves around storytelling, self-discovery and empowerment, aiming to encourage others to tell their story too. Performances include Marinella Senatore (feminist inclusive luminarie exhibitions celebrating Les 20 ans du Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Upswing UK (European Short Film Festival award winner) and Imagineer’s Bridge (BBC feature); training in Chinese pole with Kundle Cru (Crying Out Loud), parkour and l'art du déplacement with Esprit Concrete and Yamakasi founders. These all contribute to her person-centred socially inclusive coaching style at Scarabeus' Take Flight, with Royal Academy of Dance dancers, and Central School of Speech and Drama Applied Theatre MA students.

She has a wide understanding of the body in both athletic and artistic contexts, having performed in various multidisciplinary works indoors and outdoors around the world. She views the body as non-gender, holding a humanistic lens to the communities she meets.

Photo by Jordan White.