Who We Are
Circus Amara is a multi-faceted professional performance collective that bring a wide range of skills and enchantments, including curious characters, circus flow arts and contact juggling, dynamic stilt dance and acrobatics, high tech LED props, hand balancing, partner and group acrobatics, aerials arts and curated costumes.
Circus Amara exists in two ways:
The Trio & Collaboration and Curation
The core crew consists of Ariel Amara, Lukas Knab and Aleasha Lynn Rosette, a dynamic trio with a variety of talents that have been performing together since 2021.
Hailing from the West Coast, these individuals have performed professionally for over ten years and have been collaborating on this trio project for three years, developing shows for The Livingroom Stage at the Shambhala Music Festival and beyond.
Inspired by the nonsensical dream like quality of their art forms, they play with a variety of aesthetics ranging from classy vaudeville to anthropomorphic creatures, to futuristic LED. Excited to be dreaming up new possibilities, they are always using their skills, passion and curiosity to hone their craft, and to develop new ideas and make them into reality.
Their primary goals in life are to delight peoples senses and inspire a twinkle in the eye, enticing wondrous joy, mischief and more…
Meet the Artists
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Ariel Amara
Ariel Amara has been working and playing within the local and international circus and flow arts community since she was a teenager, where she found fire arts and character work to light her way forward. It is her pleasure and passion to engage in the performing arts, both as a performer and mentor herself and as a connecting point for artists to collaborate, learn and share their work. Inspired to bring her ideas to life as a producer, Circus Amara was born from her name and life’s focus and she is thrilled to be growing her creative pursuits through this project.
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Lukas Knab
Lukas Knab, is passionate performer and instructor that has been an active member of the Vancouver flow arts community for over 20 years. He is a founding member of Acrofire Entertainment, a company known for its incredible fire shows with acrobatic choreography, and has helped maintain a standard of professionalism within the local performer community for much of his career. He has been collaborating with Circus Amara since its inception and contributes a range of valuable skills both on stage and behind the scenes with his industry experience.
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Aleasha Lynn Rosette
Aleasha Lynn Rosette is an accomplished circus artist who studied at SANCA, and continues to be a leading aerialist in the community. She is a two time CPAC national champion, winning first place in the aerial hoop professional division. Aleasha has been collaborating with Circus Amara since 2022, bringing her professional experience and ideas as well as her performance skills to the crew. She is a dedicated mentor and circus arts instructor and has been excited to develop work with Circus Amara.
Circus Amara
Curation and Collaboration
by Ariel Amara