Bio
Loved by audiences around the world, Templeton Variety creates and produces circus, theater, and live entertainment for private clients and corporate events; their work is custom tailored to each event. Known for making whimsy and delight in the most unusual of places, Templeton Variety creates events that raise public visibility of companies, through interactive entertainment that makes audiences feel the heart of humanity beating within their being. Our approach is to engage audiences directly, to mingle as well as present our performances, in unlikely locales to enrich the environment for your event.
Monica is an interdisciplinary performer who enjoys integrating modern dance with circus arts. She graduated from Main Dance’s performance training program in Vancouver following her completion of a B.A. from the University of British Columbia.
Feeling stature challenged and desiring to nurture some pyromanic tendencies, Monica began performing as a stiltwalker and fire spinner in 1996. Her body of work includes dance choreography on stilts and the combination of modern and contact dance with fire spinning technique. More recently, her search for the ultimate high has lead to explorations in aerial dance, with a focus on aerial tissue.
Born in Vancouver, BC, Monica has worked with Mortal Coil Performance Society, Firebelly Performance Society, Public Dreams Society, Cirque Phoenix and The Cabiri. She has been involved in community celebrations, corporate events, film and television, and has toured festivals in Canada and the western U.S.A. Monica performed in a featured fire show for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and again for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino
Mike began juggling at a young age, with lemons in the supermarket as a kid. This mindless hobby has blossomed into a career spanning a century and a half, leading to amusement parks in Nagasaki and rock concerts across Italy.
Theater classes and Renaissance Fair performances did nothing to prepare him for street performing on Venice Beach, CA, which taught him more than he cared to know about the nature of Los Angeles. A tour of California led him to train at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts, later to become the Circus Center.
Countless street performances honed the the skills on Fisherman’s Wharf, but the culture clash of an American character immersed in another culture developed the humor that has touched so many street audiences the world around.
Performance highlights include the Seattle Opera House, Circo Romani, and the Kings vs. Laker’s championship halftimes.
