Kristie Heath
Kristie
Heath has been a professional performer since the age of eighteen, beginning
her career with the Second City comedy revue company. After graduating
with a theatre degree, Kristie studied street performance with the Odin
Theatre of Denmark. She was soon combing her background in comedy and
theatre with the skills of stilt dancing, juggling and unicycling. She
has been performing her own unique style of physical comedy around the
world ever since, and continues to expand her repertoire of skills.
The Show
Combining her offbeat humour with the use of
objects, Kristie Heath has developed a show that blends physical
comedy with circus skills. Her show has delighted people of all ages
and nationalities with its direct approach and involvement of audience
members.
The show moves from juggling with scarves, balls,
clubs and Chinese yo-yo to a death-defying card trick involving a raccoon,
a deck of cards and a cannon. As well, you'll witness an audience favourite:
two ballroom dancers - life sized dancing puppets. What the audience
sees is a dancing couple- what they can't figure out is how one performer
suddenly becomes two.
Finishing the show is Kristie Heath's signature piece - a hilarious stilt ballet, with Kristie as a ten foot tall ballerina. The prima donna chooses an aspiring Baryshinikov from the audience and together they perform an unforgettable pas-de-deux. This routine has never failed to leave the audience in stitches.
Spin Cycle
Spin
Cycle is a high energy show filled with graceless acrobatics, keen juggling
with clubs and fire torches, costume changes, and audience participation.
It also includes a flamenco inspired stilt dance accompanied by musicians
from the audience. The show concludes with a bullfight narrated by a
ten foot tall storyteller and acted out by an equally tall bullfighter
and a four-footed bull selected from the audience. Ole! This is an act
that provided laughs around the world.
Spin Cycle consists of Kristie Heath and Greg Tarlin- Two Canadian performers with long careers in the visual and variety arts. Since 1994 Spin Cycle has performed in New Zealand, Australia Korea, Japan, The US, and coast to coast in Canada from Halifax to Vancouver.
Strolling Entertainment
Huge
visual appeal combined with Kristie Heath's innate sense oh humor
have made her atmospheric characters a favourite at corporate events
and festivals around the world for over a decade. She entertains on
a personal level whether effortlessly moving atop stilts, showing her
prowess with juggling clubs, balls, and diablo or pulling any number
of other items from her bag of fun. Kristie Heath has also created many
characters to fit in with specific themes and events.
"Kristie Heath has so many ways to
keep people laughing and entertained that even Mary Poppins would be
jealous of her bag of tricks"
- March of Dimes
"I wanted to let you hear all the praises
that came my way about your great costume, your funny interactions with
everybody, your juggling with the crowd and your amazing ability to
stay on stilts forever."
- Ministry of Health
"Kristie Heaths's outstanding performances
were most successful. Her excellent skill captured the Japanese audience's
heart. A top level international performer."
- Art Land, Japan
"She was fresh, and her act absurdly beautiful,
its comic exaggeration of formal beauty towering over street level."
- The Vancouver Sun
Performances
World Expositions: Canada and Japan International Festivals: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, London
Street Performer's Festivals & Children's Festivals: Toronto, London, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Ottawa, Whistler, Halifax, Fredericton
Corporate Clients
Toronto Blue Jays, Coca-Cola, Bell Canada, Maclean-Hunter, Glaxo Canada, Manufacturer's Life, Toronto Star, Sara Lee, General Motors, Nestle, Scotiabank and many more organizations.