What We Do

Evelyn Shapshak
Artistic Director

Evelyn is a multidisciplinary movement artist, choreographer, and co-founder of ShapeScape. With a foundation in classical ballet and over 12 years of training, her practice has expanded to include contemporary, jazz, hip hop, and global styles like whacking, Bollywood, and African dance. In 2021, she began training in aerial and acrobatics, which transformed her approach to movement, deepening her focus on physical storytelling. She now creates and performs work that blends floor and aerial movement to craft emotionally resonant narratives.

Kenzie Mitzner
Creative Producer

Kenzie is a multidisciplinary performing artist and coach using prop manipulation, aerial dance, partner acro, character work and ensemble creation. Her favorite things to perform with are aerial silks, LED hoops, fire fans, and other people. She has studied with the talented folks at NECCA, Paper Doll Militia, and AWOL Dance Collective. Between coaching, performances, and character appearances, she manages to find time to argue with health insurance companies-her true calling. With a passion for education, injury prevention, and labor justice she hopes ShapeScape will be the first project in a long career of creating more equitable opportunities for artistic athletes.

Maxine Cadman
Social Media Manager

Maxine was a gymnast for almost a decade before pivoting to circus arts and aerial. She is both proficient and prolific in her dance trapeze performances including choregraphed and improvised acts, and while minoring in dance at Lewis & Clark, she hopes to branch out into other performance disciplines. Maxine can really light a stage up with her combination of staff spinning, acro and handbalancing! She's at a malleable point in her life where she is eager to see how far a career as a circus artist can go.

Clare Finessy
Marketing Manager

Clare has been training circus arts for over a decade in a wide range of aerial and ground disciplines. While considering herself an acrobatic generalist, she is currently infatuated with aerial fabric, dance trapeze, partner acro, hand-balancing and contortion. Her talent has been showcased on stage with Echo Theater Company and Tempos' Toss Collective and she coaches students of all ages and abilities at Echo Theater.

Audrey Pietrok is an Aerial artist and dancer whose art focuses on strength, flexibility, and grace. When she’s not on stage you can find her coaching, in the gym, or working on her degree in fire science. Her goal is to be able to inspire and nurture others and she loves everything fitness, health, and movement related!

Mallory Zabrocky is a performing artist who blends acting, clowning, acrobatics, and dance, and thrives on creating with and sharing space and trust alongside others. Mallory is passionate about movement as a means of storytelling, ever seeking to evoke feeling through practice and performance.

Lucille Lamane is an interdisciplinary movement artist focusing on the beauty of strength and art, both in aerial arts and floor work. Her motif is striving to present the human body as the most beautiful piece of art in any facet possible.

Siren Nephilim, aka Amber Dawn is an artist of many alternate avenues. You can find her singing, hyping up the crowd in eccentric outfits, fire dancing, or grooving in natures tune. Throughout her winding journey she aims to promote true compassion in the world toward each other, and ourselves.

Nod has been captivated by flow arts since being introduced to them in Colorado, where its potential for personal and communal growth inspired a full creative dive. Influenced through his journey with the Boy Scouts, Air Force, and the Steel Talons Base Honor Guard, his performances emphasize unity elevated through creative expression.

Amanda is an aerial coach and performer specializing in Silks, Lyra, Tippy Lyra, Sling, Lollipop, Pole, and unique apparatuses such as the Spiral. She finds joy in expressing herself through aerial arts and is passionate about empowering others to discover their own strength and creativity in the air.

Bee Fadden is a dancer, aerialists, acrobat, and committed animal lover. They love to teach and perform contemporary dance as well as silks, rope, trapeze, sling, partner acrobatics, and more!

We’re looking for dancers, acrobats, flow artists, and interdisciplinary movers interested in collaborative creation and performance in a community-centered setting. This is a chance to showcase your work, connect with other artists, and be part of something new and exciting.