Allie Rose

Circus:
Performer
Teacher
Writer

• Who is she?

Self-portraiture, 2026
A harshly-lit headshot of Allie, a white femme person with blonde hair and green eyes. She looks directly into the camera with slightly parted, red lips. He has face and neck tattoos, a large silver septum ring and earrings, and black winged eyeliner.

Éclosion (QUIET)

An essential artifact of modern digital queer ephemera, QUIET is a triptych project examining chains as fetish (precious) objects and modified bodies as deviance (autonomy). Èclosion takes the performer’s body through a six minute contemplation along pockets of sounds composed by Joseph Holiday (Snakes of Russia) and against the backdrop of spinning looped aerial chains.

Violence

Sensual, in the way that the body reveals its own desires, despite intellectualization and surveillance. An erotic exploration of tension and possession, Violence blurs the lines of object manipulation and object partnership with bullwhips.

Untitled WIP

This untitled work in development is a continuation of the body to object to body exploration. Past works use objects that are either mundane to find meditative peculiarities of my body or use spectacular objects to relate to the banality of my body. In this, I introduce another support element to the chains and investigate the perception of reduced or increased risk.

Snake Farm (Collab)

A group project initiated by Rachel Strickland to deconstruct 'sexy' movement through the medium of a collaboratively choreographed chair dance. Snake Farm aims to untangle what feels good from what’s been internalized.

Soft Approach

to hard apparatus

A path of receptivity, I create and teach from bottom-up processing, where sensations from environment, apparatus, and from within the body direct movement decisions.Because an apparatus is an object, it has no directives other than the physical forces exerted upon it by me, the human operator, or by the environment. We can share information between each other, but the information it shares isn’t characterized by desire. What I do with the information shared with me, however, is colored by my human desire. This creates an interaction format unique to each individual and to each encounter.

• Workshops

Photography by Mx.Wolfe, 2025
A performance photo of Allie tightly tucked into a ball, hanging upside down from one hip and one elbow in looped chains. Her palms are slightly open toward her face and the lighting is pale green and pink.

Circademia!

Critical Analysis

Deep in the deep thoughts about what makes up contemporary circus, what conditions contribute to its evolution (or stagnation), and what techniques are blossoming, I’m researching the present moment of USAmerican circus and its attachments to (and departures from) capitalism and neoliberalism. My current interests are centered on embodied cognition in movement development, the role gender and eroticism play in that, and problematizing visibility (spectacle), risk (authenticity) and subjectivity (refusal).

• Writing Sample

Photography by Mx.Wolfe, 2025
A performance photo of Allie from behind, her body upright and supported at the hip by a cross she's creating with her arms on one chain loop. The other chain loop floats in front of him and the lighting is pale green and pink, with a heavy white spotlight from directly above.