Tanya Gagné's interest in the trapeze all started in a barn in Washington state while she was house-sitting for the Flying Karamazoff Brothers. She then quite literally traveled the seven seas, working for two and a half years as a rigger and deck hand aboard two- and three-mated Baltic trading ships.

Initially self-taught in the circus arts, she began her official training with Irina Gold in NYC. She then traveled far and wide to train, including stints at London's Circus Space, and studying with Jean Palacy in France and Master Lu Yi at the Circus School of the Arts in San Francisco. Tanya's dance/theater works have been produced in New York City at Galapagos Art Space, PS 122, Judson Memorial Church's Movement Research Series, La MaMa Theater, the Puffin Room, and Dixon Place; as well as in Europe, with performances at Kunstler Haus in Vienna and the Potsdam Theater in Berlin. We love Tanya, a brilliant performer with strong vision and clear, focused work on a scale that rivals .

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