M I M I  K E  A E R I A L

With an ineffable hang for movement, Mimi has travelled around the world to perform and build her craft. To Mimi, aerial dance is action painting, sheer life experienced through energy in motion, with space, physics and rhythm as its main ingredients. She draws from her background with dance and yoga as a way to create circus performance unbound by the traditional constructs of circus and dance. 

A lifelong dedicated movement practitioner, she considers movement her first language and most natural approach of communicating and understanding the world.  After 20 years of training on the ground, she found aerial dance as a way to reshape body language and composition in the vertical space. 
 

Mimi is a graduate of the Pro-Track Program at Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance in Boulder, Colorado. Upon graduating she was invited to work with Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Professional Company where she choreographed, performed and taught aerial dance. Currently, she offers aerial classes, private lessons and workshops in Coralville, Iowa at National Dance Academy.
 

Her performance work spans over a decade and has been seen across the world, on traditional stages, circuses,  festivals, and site-specific performances. She continues to craft her own work as well as participate in cross-disciplinary projects.  Mimi was recently awarded a 2024/2025 Art Project Grant for Individual Artists from the Iowa Arts Council which will support a new work-in-progress show with aerial rope.  In 2023, Mimi was a recipient of the Creative Catalyst Artists Grant award from the Iowa Arts Council. 

Recently, she performed in Butoh choreographer Tadashi Endo’s work, Ohaka in Oaxaca, MX and as Clara in the circus rendition of the Nutcracker in Charlotte, NC. Her passion for improvised based work drives her creativity, allowing her to express the freedom of aerial dance and the spectacle of theatrical circus.