Installment Four Meet an Instructor Mark Segal

Mark is a Toronto based aerialist who has been training, teaching and performing aerial and circus since 2001. Mark began his training at the Toronto School of Circus Arts. His background includes nothing that has anything to do with aerial. He went to Sheridan College for animation and illustration and worked in film for four years before accidentally falling into circus. He spent the next ten years making performance and movement his life. Mark’s apparatus of choice is aerial rope or ‘corde lisse’, but he also specializes in partner silks, silks, trapeze, and acro and is making straps and handbalancing a serious part of his life. In addition to his circus experience, Mark is a Canfitpro Certified Personal Trainer. Mark currently performs with and for Suspended Animation Circus, Hercinia, ABS Dance, Circus Orange,  Anandam, Zero Gravity  Circus, and  has started appearing with Les Coquettes (burlesque troupe).