About
ELENA DAMASIO is an Italian circus artist from Asti, specializing in Cyr wheel.
She graduated from Cirko Vertigo in Turin (IT) in 2016 and, in 2020, she got a bachelor degree from Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam (NL).
In 2021, she co-created her first show. The fairy-tale like circus show "MOI-RA-I", with the Trenina collective based in The Netherlands (together with Saana Tolonene and Carina Klingsell).
During this time, she also moved to France to work for two years as a performer in the show "Trait(s)" with the SCoM company and toured all France.
In 2022, Elena and Monika Neverauskaite founded the Accompany ME company, creating in June 2024, their first show together: “À Mesure - Handle with care”.
Accompany ME is now creating two new shows which will premiere in 2026 and 2027, respectevely called "The Onion Technique" and "Beat the Circle"
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Elena Damasio is a versatile performer specialized in Cyr wheel. She also has skills in dance, acrobatic, juggling and she likes to play the violin.
She likes to explore the numerous qualities and limits within herself and within the Cyr wheel, in the communication towards the public, in her own artistic enrichment as performer and in the general development of her skills.
Her approach to the wheel is quite energetic and playful, it can also be very sweet and soft at times. Elena often thinks and feels that the wheel and her form a duo and that they can affect each other in different ways. She likes to create surreal and absurd realities to add another layer to her work. For her, imagination is the best tool to be able to transmit an idea or a message to the audience and to be meaningful in what she does.
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Elena likes to challenge herself in the different acts by creating combinations of hard tricks and hard manipulations while keeping the dramaturgy and the physicality throughout the piece. Elena’s work often aims to make the audience perceive the cyr wheel as an entity of its own, another being, not making clear who is manipulating who.
