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ARTIST
SPOTLIGHT: RAIN ANYA
Co-founder, Co-Artistic Director
of the Paper Doll Militia
Rain Anya is an actor / aerialist / dancer / singer
/ circus performer who holds a degree in “Performance
for Social Change.” Rain's beginnings in circus
were in 2003 with the political circus company Wise
Fool New Mexico, where she was a performer, instructor,
and producer within the company. Co-founder of the
Paper Doll Militia, Rain continues to draw from her
lifelong background in theatre and dance, and integrates
circus arts with various other performance disciplines.
Recent full length Aerial Theatre credits include,
BALD (San Francisco), Peter Pan (U.S. Tour of the
original West End London Production), and This Twisted
Tale. (Paper Doll Militia International Tour) |
Rain
studied aerial arts and physical theatre intensively at
Circomedia- Center for Contemporary Circus and Physical
Theatre, in Bristol, England. She also completed an extensive
Professional Training Circus Program at the New England
Center for Circus Arts under the instruction of Elsie Smith
and Serenity Forchion, former Cirque de Soleil artists.
Rain is an aerial arts instructor, having taught classes,
workshops, and private lessons at The San Francisco Circus
Center, Acrosports, Kinetic Arts Center, Trapeze Arts, The
Athletic Playground, in the Bay Area, as well as many other
facilities around the country and the world. www.RainAnya.com
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