Erin Ball
Erin Ball is a Mad, Disabled circus artist and coach based in Kingston, Ontario. She runs and owns Kingston Circus Arts; a circus space created with Disability in mind. Erin is also the co-founder of LEGacy Circus, a performance company co-created with Mad artist, Vanessa Furlong that strives to create access in performance for both artists and audience members. Erin uses aerial arts and ground acrobatics to tell stories on stage. She took a year off in March 2014 due to life changing events that resulted in having both lower legs removed. She has since returned to her passion of training, coaching and performing. Erin loves collaborating, adapting and creating new/different ways of executing skills and sharing that info in a course about dismantling ableism for movement-based coaches called Flying Footless.
To find out more on Erin Ball and her work follow these links:
CBC Acrobat who lost legs shares grief, hope in performance
CBC ‘Larger than life’: How depression and anxiety influence this artist’s work
