Noeli Acoba, a Montreal-based circus artist specializing in aerial rope, describes herself as your friendly neighborhood circus artist. She has performed her rope act internationally in festivals and at premier venues such as TOHU. She also collaborated in researching new, inventive apparatuses with companies such as Cirque du Soleil and Acrobatic Conundrum. Lately, Acoba has been compelled to make sense of the impact of quarantine on our circus community so she has put together a mini-documentary about how social distancing in quarantine times has effected circus.

Interviewees from the circus world: Rain Anya, Shana Carroll, Ruth Juliet Wikler, LeeAnn Ball, Terry Crane, Augustin Rodriguez Beltrane When I asked her what her inspiration was for the video, she replied, “...