Viivi Roiha started her circus hobby in 1997 in the Pukinmäki youth circus school. This hobby turned into her profession later in her life, as she graduated from the circus artist program in Salpaus Further Education in Finland in 2009. After graduation, Viivi continued her studies in France in the highly appreciated Centre National des Arts du Cirque, and graduated from there in 2012. After her graduation she toured with CNAC around France and the rest of Europe with their performance This is the End (directed by David Bobee). She left the tour after 56 performances to join known director Arpad Schilling's performance Noéplanete in one of the most known theaters in Paris. The performace toured France and Switzerland. Viivi has and co-coreographed and performend in various performances directed by Sanna Silvennoinen of the Finnish Circo Aereo (Ro-pu 2012, Pienempiä Paloja 2013, Mumbai Express 2013). She performed at the Silence Festival in 2014 with a forest trail performance, where the audience was brought to watch meditative aereal acrobatics in the middle of the quiet forest atmosphere of Finnish Lapland. In 2016 and 2019 Viivi was performing as a circus soloist in CirkOpera, the first opera/circus creation in Finland performed at the Finnish National Opera.
In France Viivi has worked with the multidisciplinary art company Le GdRA's performance Sujet, which contemplates insanity and the anthropology of sanity. She toured with Chloe Moglia's performance OSE, which premiered in November 2016 in Lannion. Moglia creates her performances through aereal acrobatics, meditation, martial arts and time-space-theories. Viivi also performed the French and Finnish versions of Cirkus Xanti's Bastard, and did the Finnish version of Xanti's Red Fever Tree. She toured with Company Galapiat's performance Mad in Finland 2014-2020.
Viivi is currently working with Fragan Gehlker. They won a prize with their rope act at Festival Mondial Cirque de Demain in 2018 and created a full performance, Dans ton Cirque, out of this act in 2019. She has also initiated work her first solo performance, planning for a premiere in 2022. Viivi has been working as a circus teacher for students of all ages since 2006.
Viivi is specialized in aereal rope. In her art she is interested in alternative circus and combining various art forms. In her work Viivi has been contemplating women's position in culture and as a performer. She is inspired by simplicity, absurdity, naturalness and her own way of moving and expressing. A review in the Finnish newspaper said that "Viivi Roiha's flowing aereal acrobatics are wild and rough" (Jussi Tossavainen, Helsingin Sanomat 12.9.2014).
Henna Kaikula graduated as a circus artist in 2003 from Cirkus Cirkör’s three-year circus artist education. Since graduation Henna has worked full-time as a performer in different scale projects around the world: all from experimental art pieces to larger stage productions in the fields of dance, theatre, circus, physical theatre, visual art, video art and cabaret.
Since graduation Henna has continuously led her own ensembles and individual projects. Her interest has been in creating processes exploring circus artists collaborating with other artists and art forms:
Company MedAndraOrd created seven performing art productions in years 2003-2009.
Sivuhenkilöt ensemble, led by Henna and director Alma Lehmuskallio, combines specifically circus and theatre art forms creating pieces of dramaturgical depth combined with abstract visual and physical expression and skills. MedAndraOrd and Sivuhenkilöt -performances has been performed in Finland’s major venues and festivals such as Tampere Theatre Festival, Helsinki Festival, Cirko - centre for contemporary circus, Kiasma Theatre etc.
Since autumn 2016 Henna worked as an artistic director at Silence-festival and since 2021 as an artistic director of Silence Organisation. Since 2017 Henna has also worked as a curator and artistic designer of Seasons of Silence - multidisciplinary concert concept in Särestöniemi-museum.
These days, as a performer, initiator of projects and a concept-designer Henna works mainly with cross-art ensembles and in non-traditional performance locations, increasingly specifically in nature. She is a true visionary in reshaping the art field into a better place for all from the position of an organizer as well as an artist, and her work has also been rewarded by the most valued artist grant the Finnish Arts Center distributes to circus artists.
Sade Kamppila was an artistic gymnast in her youth, and switched the hobby to circus when she was 19 years old. After graduating from Salpaus Further Education's circus artist program, she and 5 of her classmates founded their company Sirkus Aikamoinen. Their strenght lies in large variety in mastered circus disciplines as well as instruments played, and its signature style is a warm spirited acoustic flow accompanied with a strong do-it-yourself -spirit and strong friendship amongst the groups members. With Aikamoinen, Sade has been creating the shows Skaala (2009), Aisti (2011, a finalist in the Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe -program in 2010), Pluto Crazy (2012, a co-production with Norwegian Cirkus Xanti), Dr. Natchez Trio (2015), and The Land of the Happy (2o14, a co-production with Maracat Caravan and Circo Aereo). Aikamoinen has toured with its shows, street performances and school tours around Finland and visiting the other Nordic and Baltic countries, France, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands and Russia. Currently Sade is the artistic co-director of Circus I love you, touring with the company’s performances Circus I love you (2018) and Utopia (2021) with their own tents around Europe.
Sade has also performed for the Lahti City Theatre (2009-2010), Circo Aereo (2013&2016), Mirva Mäkinen (2015), Cirkus Xanti (2012-2016) and Cirkus Perspektiv (2016). She has been working as a circus teacher in various circus schools for all aged students since 2009. Sade directed Cirkus Cirkör’s performance Bloom in 2019 with Julien Auger.
Sade's strength as a circus performer is her pluridisciplinarity. From her main discipline swinging trapeze she has shifted focus during the years to banquine and a hand to hand, floor acrobatics, hair hanging and roller skates. Sade plays clarinet, ukulele and sings. Sade's acrobatics was described in a Swedish review: "Dance acrobat Sade Kamppila is a physical phenomenon who spreads energy and happiness through violent flips, responsive clarinet playing and by plucking her ukulele in a headstand" (Anna Ångström, Svenska Dagbladet 7.1.2016)