El Circo Dia is an aerial theater collective that cultivates working relationships between dancers, musicians, and theater tech artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area. El Circo Dia seeks to maximize a collective voice to create productions that serve as a launching point for meaningful, socially-relevant conversations.
El Circo Dia was the 2016 recipient of Dancer's Group CA$H Grant for Sandia’s aerial theater production of "Refuge: A Ballad of the Renting Class.” and has been supported in part by Zaccho Dance Theatre, Penasco Theater Collective, SPACE 124 at Project Artaud, and San Francisco Parks and Recreation.
You can help local arts education thrive with your financial support. We are a small locally owned business and every dollar goes into the cost of maintenance and productions. Donations can be sent through Venmo to @DaniSexton labeled El Circo Dia. We deeply appreciate your generosity.
We would love to hear about your unique performative vision and how we can collaborate with you and your talents! Contact Sandia (dani.sandia@gmail.com) to join the collective.
Vertigone is a collaboration between Artistic Director, Benjy Young and Aerial Choreographer and Performer, Sandia Sexton. Together, their collective expertise in theater tech, aerial rigging, aerial performance and costume design create fantastical, unforgettable aerial spectacle. Benjy and Sandia have collaborated on numerous aerial theater productions since 2016, directing and producing performances that incorporate an impressive range of invention, unique to their combined imaginations.
Benjy Young has an impressive history of achieving complex engineering and creative feats in filmmaking, rigging, sculpting, and theater direction. For 15 years Benjy was head rigger for Local 16, the international association of theatrical stage hands and motion picture operators, and in 1994 He won the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement for Visual Design and Production Design (In Steel's Shadow, Zaccho Dance Theatre). Benjy owns and operates Young Rigging with his son Miles Young.
He has worked with celebrated Artists including Ned Kahn Studios, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Circo Zero, Helen Wicks Works, SandiaCircus and El Circo Dia. He is a longtime resident of Project Artaud, serves as a member on their Board of Directors, and was 10 year managing director of the historic Theater Artaud.
Benjy is a third generation public gardener, and for five decades has seeded, planted, and stewarded 45 species of palm trees from 25 countries that surround the urban compound of Project Artaud, located in the San Francisco Mission District.
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