Alayne Gobeille is an aerialist, circus theater producer and environmental attorney. She has appeared in numerous theatrical shows, corporate events and benefits on duo and solo trapeze, aerial sling and silks in the Gulf Coast and DC metro area. She produced Revenge From the Deep Water, a circus adaptation of the classic Japanese film Godzilla v. Mothra for the 2010 New Orleans Fringe festival and a shorter work Synchronicity, based on the timeless story Invasion of the Body Snatchers, for a children’s hospital unit. Alayne moved to Baltimore in 2011 and is grateful for the warm welcome she received from the DC Aerial Collective. Image c. Andrew Bossi.

EChO is really excited to have found a passion that combines both the freedom of acrobatics and expressiveness of dance. She began as a competitive artistic gymnast at American Twisters and included a solid dance discipline for technique and articulation. After completing a BS in philosophy at Smith College, she began aerial under the mentorship of Arachne Aerial Arts. Recently, she has been seen flying in the Baltimore Aerial Festival (October, 2009) presenting “Eve’s Serpent” an aerial net piece and “Shashaloza” a double-silk duet piece. She also performed “Shashaloza” with Nina Charity in September 2009 at the African Arts Smithsonian for “Community Day”.



Gwynne has been involved in the exploration of aerial acrobatics since the fall of 2007. She trained and performed with New York Circus Arts, the Lady Circus under Jordann Baker, and In-Flight Theatre in Baltimore Maryland. She hails from Southern California, and is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA Acting program. In addition, Gwynne is a founding member of Infinite Stage Theater Company, and ensemble based troupe that creates and performs original work and reinvented classics. Gwynne is interested in where the spectacular and the everyday meet - the journey of the human spirit and the power of honesty. For her, aerial theater emcompasses all these traits.



Kate Winston has been studying aerial dance since 2007 and has performed solo aerial silks pieces at Dance Place in Washington, DC and at Joe’s Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier, MD. She has trained with Arachne Aerial Arts in Mount Rainier, MD and has taken classes with Air Dance Bernasconi in Baltimore, MD and Trapeze School New York in Washington, DC. She has a background in ballet and jazz dance, including and dance coursework at the University of California, San Diego. She is drawn to aerial dance because it embodies the space between the imagined and the real worlds where our lives take shape.



The four founding members of the DC Aerial Collective have backgrounds in dance, gymnastics and theater and have performed at a variety of venues, including Dance Place, the Baltimore Aerial Festival, the National Museum of African Art and Joe’s Movement Emporium.