Bio
Georgina Ilona Cassels (1992) is a circus artist educated at the National Centre for Circus Arts (2013-15) and Gravity Circus Centre (2017) and is currently based in Budapest.
Georgina is a member of ‘Konstrukt’ directed by Dora Komenda/Cirkus Kolektiv which was selected as a CircusNext finalist of 2023. She was a fellow of the New Horizon’s Leadership Program EU of 2023-24 led by Cirkus Syd, DYNAMO, and Rigas Cirks, under the mentorship of Maartje Bonarius, Artistic Director of Tall Tales Company.
In 2017 Georgina spent three months working with the Palestinian Circus School as a volunteer aerial instructor. In 2018, she moved to Budapest and has since performed for Firebirds Circus and collaborated as part of an aerial rope duo ‘Rollmeknot’ researching innovative duo techniques and teaching workshops and performing across Europe.
In 2019 Georgina organised and co-hosted the Budapest Aerial Meeting with additional editions in 2022 & 2024.
In 2022, Georgina collaborated with Emily Aoibeann travelling twice to Ireland for artistic residency to artistically contribute to a conceptual piece “A Year of the Heart”.
She is the co-founder of the Budapest based aerial collective One Thousand Faces with their show ‘TERRA’ and ensemble piece “AXIS”. Both projects were granted awards at the Cyrkulacje Contemporary Circus Festival in which Rollmeknot received the Media Award & Sponsor Award in 2020 and One Thousand Faces received the Media Award & Second Prize in 2021.
In 2024 Georgina received the Capital Circus of Budapest award at the Much Festival Showcase and debuted her tissu act “Indigo” at the Night of Circuses.