Urban Cirque is delighted to be showcasing the following world-class performers in an intricately designed spectacular at the 2010 Australian TV Week Logies...

Director – Matthew Hills

Matthew Hills is Urban Cique’s Director and Cheographer. He has been in the performance and Artistic industry for over 10 years. Matthew has produced, written, directed, stage managed, stage designed, acted and even sung and danced in shows across the world. During this time Matthew has been based mainly in Europe, Berlin, Germany and Melbourne,Australia.
His abilities in sourcing and integrating different styles of performance, unique sense of staging, broad range of artistic ability and the family community spirit Matthew creates amongst performers, elevates shows to a spectacular connectedness with the audience. This has seen his latest venture “Urban Cirque” rising to acclaim over the
last two years.

Matthew is a rising star in artistic communities around the world. Coming home to Australia has been a great chance to showcase the amazing world-class talent Australians have to offer.

Arial Consultant – Brook Lester

Brooks message:
Greetings to you, I’ve been ‘me’ for 34 years. Thirty of those have been immersed within the circus realms, performing ground and aerial acts within companies such as ‘The Fruit Fly Circus’ and ‘Circus Oz’, as well being as a freelance aerialist world-wide.

Throughout this time I’ve had the pleasure of choreographing and directing acts, cabarets and circus shows and teaching a multitude of students and performers a variety of circus skills.

Circus rigging is another one of my pleasures. Other pleasures in life include my artwork, massage, reiki, living, laughing, learning, experiencing, playing and not taking myself or life to seriously. Life’s a gift, if you don’t like it you’re the only one with the power to change it. Why resist when dancing with the universe is so much fun.
In Love and Light, B.

Daniel Power

Daniel’s power and presence make him a preferred performer in the Urb

an Cirque family. Daniel began his professional career performing in many different corporate shows and events. This exposure led to him being chosen by Cirque Du Soleil for their development and production of “KA” which is a permanent show in Las Vegas.
Since returning to Australia in 2007 Daniel has been coaching and sharing his knowledge with Australian students as well as maintaining a high profile in the industry.
His Australian performance credits include:
•    ‘’Live 08’’ produced by Circa NICA,
•    Opening of the Asia Pacific ‘’Out Games’’, and  
•    Residency at Dance and Aerial Studios( DNA) in Canberra with Choreographer, Janine Ayres, developing and performing in the short work season “Distance 665” (2008) and “Made in Canberra” season “The House That Jack Built” at The street theatre in 2009.
Daniel arrived back from a cultural exchange tour of Central America with the International Ballet Theatre (IBT) February 2009. The tour helped to raise much needed funds for children living with HIV.
Daniel recently relocated to Canberra, and is performing nationally in corporate events and for companies such as Circus Monoxide and JAAD Janine Ayres Aerial Dance.

Billie Wilson-Coffey

Billie has become a preferred performer with Urban Cirque and her talents speak for themself. Billie’s circus career stemmed from being a young performer in a youth circus.
In her professional career Billie has refined her many skills, specialising in aerial work, trapeze, solo and duo aerial hoop. While Tissu is Billie’s forte, her edgy and elegant beauty transfers to the ground with hula hoops and walkovers.
In September 2009, Billie won Bronze at the 4th world Circus Arts Festival in Moscow, Russia, with a duo act,“Momento”.

Free Coulston

Urban Cirque is delighted to integrate the amazing talents of Free into this Logies event.. With her background in rhythmic gymnastics, Free began training circus in 2001 at the Vulcana Women’s Circus in Brisbane, performing to critical acclaim in the production Aviatrix (2001).  

In her professional career she spent over a year performing with Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan (2003).

Upon returning to Australia, Free continued to develop her two solo aerial acts, adagio, double lyra and perfect the double trapeze.  She has been performing these in events all over Australia and in many other countries including; China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Guam.

Free has performed Tissu for the Queen of Malaysia as part of the opening ceremonies of the Women’s Asian Games.   Her clients include: Louis Vuitton, Mastercard, AUDI, Cadbury-Schweppes, Macquarie Bank, BMW, Mercedes, ING, Mini Cooper, Nikon and Red Energy (commercial, 2006).
In addition to her corporate performances, Free has performed both aerials and adagio (duo and trio) at the National Circus Festival (2005 – Strangely Sublime); the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2006 – Human Water Fountain); the Woodford Folk Festival (2004 – Trix Circus, 2005 – Bulldust and Spangles, 2006 – TCM Cabaret, 2008 – Bulldust and Spangles).  She has performed as a special guest act in the Famous Speigel Tent’s in-house show La Clique (2006); opened the festival club at the Melbourne Fringe Festival (2007), and performed at The Streets of Melbourne Festival (2008 – Strut n Fret Production House). Free has also completed a two-year contract performing at Jupiters Casino (Gold Coast (2007 – 2008)) and Treasury Casino (Brisbane (2008)); and has been on tour with Circus Quirkus (touring seasons 2007, 2008).

Chiara Boardman

We are proud to announce Chiara’s involvement in the 2010 TV Week Logies. In 2004, after competing for 10 years in rhythmic gymnastics, Chiara decided to use this experience to begin a life of circus and joined Skadada, one of Perth’s leading aerial companies. While here she performed in Perth’s Artrage and Awesome festivals.
In her professional career Chiara attended the Australian Stunt Academy to develop skills as a performer at festivals such as Melbourne International Arts Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Chiara has performed for large scale corporate events both in Melbourne and internationally.

Jessica Ward

Urban Cirque is proud to welcome Jessica Ward as part of the UC family. Jessica has had a love for dance since she could walk. During her childhood she trained in dance, gymnastics and acrobatics and participated in national and international competitions. At 19 she gave up her full time job as a flight attendant to pursue a career as a circus performer. Jessica has now recently graduated from the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA). She now specializes in contortion hand balancing, aerial hoop, Tissu and acrobatics.
Since graduating in December 2009, Jessica has performed with Legs on The Wall, at Sydney International Festival, L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, as well as numerous corporate events.

Rosie Carberry

Rosie stems from an amazing performance family, “The Carberry’s” all growing up in the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Rosie’s two brothers and sister have performed with Matthew Hills over the years  also

Rosie has performed all over throughout Australia and the world as a circus student and in her professional career in shows: When 3 Meet-Adelaide Fringe Festival, The House That Jack Built-Canberra, 18th Arabian Gulf Football Cup Opening Ceremony-Abu Dhabi, as well as many corporate events.

Kali Retallack

Kali is another amazing recruit from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus (Fruities) to find their way into Urban Cirque. Kali has performed in shows the likes of: “The A4 Circus Ensemble”.,Adelaide Fringe and Sydney Darling Harbour’s, “Hoopla”, in the Mebourne Latin Festival as anAdagio performer with Retina productions, Tissu performance in “Circalicious”,Melbourne Fringe, erial Ring and Tissu for Stardust Circus, Aerial Ring  at bar mitsfa, speigletent.LarKarlie was an crobat in the Silverchair film clip ‘If you keep losing sleep’, and also inthe Cat Empire clip, “Eldorado”, where she performed Adagio and a group routine, which she’s also done during a live performance shows and and at corporate and other events.

Kali has also taught dance and circus skills to students of various performance schools.