WHO WE ARE


  • Co-Founder

    Miranda is known for her work as one of Toronto’s most avant-garde aerialists. As at home in glitter as she is in fake blood, Miranda’s circus resume is full of festivals and notorious events across North America, including the Snake Oil Festival in New Orleans and Theatre Bizarre in Detroit.

    Miranda is also the co-producer of Toronto’s largest regularly-occurring fetish event, Impulse, as well as the variety show cabaret series ‘Nerdgasm.’She is the owner and artistic director of Illuminair Entertainment, one of Toronto’s longest-operating circus troupes, and holds an undergraduate from the University of Toronto in, of all things, religious studies.

  • Co-Founder

    Tifereth's teaching and performance career began in 2011 when she volunteered sight unseen for a shibari photoshoot. Since then she's drawn on her dual background in high-performance athletics and figurative arts to push herself physically and aesthetically on both ends of the rope. With projects ranging from an undergraduate thesis body of work from OCADU exploring the bound form to large scale performances with a surprising volume of fake blood, her work is provocative and unabashed.

    A veteran educator and performer with credits including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Prague Shibari Festival, Theatre Bizarre, Helsinki Shibari, Berlin’s EURIX festival, as well as weekend workshops and performances all over the globe, she is most often found wherever the weird stuff is.