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Kate Reid - Circus Artist, Musician, Visual Artist
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Kate Reid, Artist Home page
The Marble Circus is the home page of Artist and Ring Mistress Kate Reid. Blending, Circus, Live Performance, Visual Art, Sculpture, Costumery & Music. The Marble Circus brings together Kate's various Artistic practices.
Kate Reid
Bio
Playing music from a very young age as both a cellist and pianist, then progressing to visual arts, costumery and engineering, a perfect partnership for all disciplines was found in the practice of Circus Arts. Kate has founded and run companies, Entroupe, Electric Dollhouse and currently runs Candy Stripe Circus. Entroupe Circus with Jim Potts specialized in motorbike Circus and ran shows across Australia. Electric Dollhouse, run with Circus partner Zoe Ellis produced kooky, avant-garde works for Festivals and Events and toured Internationally from 2000-2006. Since establishing solo enterprise Candy Stripe Circus in 2006, Kate has produced works for Events and Festivals across Australia, Asia and Europe with short lyrical pieces, feature shows, major events and durational works.
MCA, Sydney. Primavera
Precarious life by Mira Oosterweghel 2016. Performed by Kate Reid
Candy Stripe Circus 2009
The Marble Circus, Carrara Italy 2017
Kate Reid
Candy Stripe Circus
Kate's current Circus Arts Company, since 2006, Candy Stripe Circus produce site specific work for Events and Festivals, working from small boutique one off events to major showcase productions. Candy Stripe Circus clients are many and varied and include amongst them Louis Vuitton, Google, LinkedIn and more. Candy Stripe Circus are an International touring Company producing tent shows, festival shows as well as unique individualistic shows for our specialized clients. Candy Stripe Circus provide all the entertainment for Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens Harbour Hoopla NYE Festival 2017 - 2019.
Miss Candy, Ring Mistress of the Candy Stripe Circus
Miss Candy as the stilted Ring Mistress with some of the Candy Stripe Circus entourage
All Candy Stripe Circus styling and costumery is custom designed and the majority is also hand made by Miss Candy aka Kate Reid
Candy Stripe Circus Harbour Hoopla NYE Event
Candy Stripe Circus provide all the entertainment for the Royal Botanic Gardens NYE Festival Harbour Hoopla 2017 to current
Candy Stripe Circus Hard Rock Hotel Bali
kate reid
Circus Artist
As well as running various personal ventures and companys Kate has also continuously works as a freelance Circus Artist performing with major Australian Circus Companies such as Rock'n'Roll Circus, Circus Monoxide and various roles at Legs on the Wall and Circus Oz. With an array of skills, Kate specializes in aerial work and hula-hoops. Aerial performance skills include trapeze, silks, strops, bungee, rope and aerial theatre. Kate also performs stilts, adagio, slack-rope, clowning, character work and specialty acts.
Aerial Silks
Aerial Trapeze
Aerial Bungee
Hula-hoops
Adagio, Balancing Belles
Characters, Alphonse the Magnifique
Specialty Acts, Mermaid Side-show
Aerial Theatre, Felix the Clown
Ring Mistress and Snake handler
Aerial Strops
Aerial Theatre
Stilt Acts and Stilt Walking
Stilt Acts and Stilt Walking
LED Hula-hoops
Stilt Acts and Stilt Walking
kate reid
Musician
Kate plays an array of instruments as well as composing and arranging music. Instruments include cello, accordion, piano, ukulele, voice and digital musical composition. Combining music and Circus passions means playing cello in the air and accordion on stilts. Kate plays music on stilts with Kush Cabaret and the Candy Stripe Circus Klezmer ensemble known as The Marble Circus band. The Marble Circus band do also play with their feet on the ground and have performed at many events including the The Australian Circus Festival, Legs on the Wall Sydney Fringe Hub opening, 5 Lands Festival and Karnidale Circus Festival WA, to name a few. Kate has taught music at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium of Music, worked as the musical director at Circus Monoxide and produced and performed live the sound tracks for small and large productions including Diagnosis Gravity, Sydney Fringe Festival 2019.
Aerial Cellist
Kate as Felix the clown in An Aerial Love Serenade. Sydney Olympic Arts Festival 2000 playing aerial cello
Accordion
Kate as 'Alphonse' the Ring Master with his circus wife the amazing Fifi Bouffant. Image from the Candy Stripe Circus, Little Big Top productions tent show 'Cirque Magnifique' 2010
Composition and live performance for stage shows
Kate as 'the musician'. In rehearsal for Diagnosis Gravity at Legs on the Wall, Sydney, with Catherine Wait 2019
The Marble Circus band, roving and festival band
The Marble Circus band, playing on the ground at The Australian Circus Festival Gala opening 2018. The band also perform as a roving acts on stilts.
Rigging
Kate Reid
Aerial Rigging. Kate is a ticketed Advanced Rigger with two decades experience in various fields of rigging including project manager for Skypeak Aerial theme park, St Marys. Kate owns various truss, and rigs including a freestanding tripod rig and large major event box truss rig. Rigging equipment and expertise for rigging jobs big and small. Rigger for sculptures at Scenic world Katoomba 2017 to 2020.
Floral rigging wedding
Turning venues into floral art
Sculptures at Scenic world
Rigged 250 hand blown glass baubles in a forest. Artist, Kayo Yokoyama
Sculptures at Scenic World
Mathematical sided sculptures. Artist, Louisa Magrics
Major events rigging
Bali, Mercedes Benz car launch
Kate Reid
Project Management
Kate specializes in managing complex projects which focus around artistic, social engagement, professional development and community development. Kate has managed projects both extremely large and beautifully small and worked on both short term and long term projects. Amongst many other artistic escapades, Kate ran The Brewarrina Youth Circus Program for 10years, Project managed the build and opening at SkyPeak Aerial theme park for 6months and in 2021 was the Project Manager for the Blue Mountains Recovery Eco-Arts Project 2021. This project, run through a series on online workshops, talks, seminars and events, brought together a team of Ecologists, Citizen Scientists and Artist working across various fields to investigate the impacts of the 2019/2020 fires in the Greater Blue Mountains. The aim of the project was to create an online Art Gallery of works that 'remembered, collated and curated the information collected by local Ecologists, Citizen Scientists and Eco-monitorers, camera traps and other sources. The final Gallery can be viewed at www.ecoart.space
