TAYLOR CASAS
Aerialist | Movement Director | Producer
Bio
TAYLOR CASAS is a movement director, creative video producer, aerial arts coach and choreographer. Her work shines a light on impactful narratives in traditional and non-traditional athletics. She strives to capture the human experience through diverse perspectives of age, culture, and community. Her mission includes honoring movement and circus arts through storytelling and filmmaking.
Her movement training is grounded in dance, theatre, circus arts, and traditional sports including competitive soccer. She is committed to a lifelong active lifestyle and encourages others to discover what moves them.
Taylor has worked with brands including HOKA, and performed in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The CW: The Big Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, The Tank NYC, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre & Manitoba Theatre for Young Audiences in Canada, UnidosUS, Diavolo theater - Los Angeles, and Hollywood Fringe Festival.
She recently directed and produced a spec ad highlighting performance activewear brand ATHLETA through the unique movement expressions of female aerial artists from diverse ages and backgrounds.
As an artist and athlete, she has experience in front of the camera and behind the scenes. Her knowledge of anatomy and personal training elevates creative and movement direction on any project she works on. Her direction expands her clients’ potential, focusing on strength and body awareness, creating striking images for the overall aesthetic and feeling of the given project. Her extensive physical training and performing arts experience allows Taylor to easily connect with her subjects and build an organic and trusting relationship, bringing out their unique and dynamic movement capabilities on set or on stage.
Previously, Taylor co-founded an award-winning acrobatic theatre company BOSSY FLYER, where she produced and performed nationally and internationally, creating thrilling acrobatic adaptations of classic stories and playing with mixed forms of movement and storytelling.
Taylor is a graduate from CSULB with a B.A. in Theatre Arts, and holds a diploma in circus arts from Circomedia - Centre for Contemporary Circus & Physical Theatre (Bristol, UK). She splits her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
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