Since its founding Shayna has created 3 full length shows and 4 interactive performance parties. Shayna formed the Aloft Loft in April 2006 to provide a supportive and vibrant community training space for physical artists of all sorts. Her work was also presented at the International Circus Performerʼs Gathering in Brattleboro, Vermont, and at many Chicago dance festivals. Also that year the Chicago Reader named her a “Mover and Shaker” of the Chicago dance scene.
In 2006 her choreography was selected into the repertory of Thodos Dance Chicago and featured in the Best of Dance Chicago Showcase. That same year Shayna formed her own company “Aloft” and, with a CAAP grant from the City of Chicago, produced the critically acclaimed full-length show “Rolling Blackouts”. In 2005 she received the Glenn P Davis Scholarship to the Aerial Dance Festival, awarded every year for excellence in aerial choreography. He was also a founding member of the short-lived Dusk Beat Circus. In the early 2000's, while back in the San Francisco Bay Area, Matt performed in a number of theater shows and as a cast member on the television show Stand UP It's Thursday Night and produced the Spring Comedy Competition in San Jose, CA. In 1997 he competed in the Acrobatic Bicycle World Championships as the only American in nearly two decades to do so. He has performed circus on the high seas and in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia with companies such as Royal Caribbean, MSC, The New Pickle Circus, Cirque Productions, Poet Productions, Aloft Circus Arts and Midnight Circus. He has been seen in circuses, USO shows, musical and straight theater, television, commercials, movies and voice over. He has been performing for the public in venues as diverse as backyard birthday parties to the stage of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with everything from a bicycle act on a cruise ship to the top of a 60' sway pole overlooking the skyline of Dubai. Originally from Saratoga, CA, Matt grew up performing in musical theater and after graduating high school was fortunate enough to attend the prestigious National Circus School of Montreal where his focus was acrobatic bicycle and clown.
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Matt Roben is a circus performer with over 24 years of professional experience as a clown and actor. Matt Roben, Co-Producerfor the Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival, a six day event featuring contemporary circus companies from around the world which will take place in Lakeview from January 6-12, 2014.
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