Masha Terentieva

• assisting artistic director Crystal Manich on REESCH Evol, originally conceived by Sean McKeown, working alongside Mukhtar Mukhtar as creative consultant
• liaising between artists and production team
• overseeing aerial choreographies
• chroreographed new acrobatic pieces, using the artists' vocabulary

Popcorn Underground

• Created a concept for a late night Speigeltent cabaret featuring 8 artists and a live band
• Orchestrated a creation over 2 weeks
• In collaboration with the artists, created new acts & adapted existing acts to new concept, music, character, and costume
• Choreographed group acts, transitions, opening & finale
• Worked with artists & the production team to create atmosphere, a unique immersive world for the audience to experience

Circus Wonderland

• Directed a family show in a speigeltent with a cast of 5 artists
• Worked with clown to create original character arc
• Adapted existing acts to new music
• Choreographed and unified transitions
• Precised movement quality, timing, and character development

• Assisted award-winning director Craig Illot in creation of L'Hôtel, commissioned and co-produced by Sydney Opera House with Alfred
• Performed as character and acrobat on Aerial Hotel Cart
• Acted as in-house artistic director during the season, maintaining show quality by giving notes
• Integrated new artists and resolved challenges
• Received artistic mentorship aimed at elevating emerging creative leaders, specifically selected for Contemporary Performance Industry Development Initiative

Kurios, 'Twas The Night Before

• Designed on original apparatus, the aerial hotel cart
• Created a unique award winning act (Cirque de Demain 2017) & franchised it around the world
• Taught the act to different aerialists
• Incorporated the hotel cart into the specific thematic worlds of the individual shows
• Adapted it to the bodies, concepts, and circumstances

VANITY

• Led Research & Development of a new work in progress production on the topics of Vanity and Self-Worth in the performance arts
• Improvised and experimented with a cast of three, blending circus, theatre, and dance
• Collaborated with a composer, a props maker and a lighting desginer
• Imagined, wrote & devised a series of vignettes
• Put on an exclusive showing at Holzmarkt 25

AUTOCANNIBAL

• Directed a solo show of physical theatre, circus, clowning and performance art (In collaboration with Mitch Jones)
• Showed successfully at Sydney Festival (2021) & in Theatre Works, Melbourne
• Nominated for Green Room Award 2018 - Best Lighting Design

AUTOCANNIBAL short film

• Co-directed with Oozing Future to shoot a psychedelic film version of AUTOCANNIBAL the show in Melbourne (still in post-production mode)

• Collaborated in Research & Development of a new work Now Departing
• Co-created new aerial and acrobatic material
• Choreographed & devised scenes
• Led improvisations and experimented with a talented cast of acrobats, dancers and musicians

• Mentored senior year students to prepare their graduating acts
• Worked on choreography, technique, musicality, movement, character, presence, precision
• Acted as an overall outside eye
• Counseled & coached in various disciplines (aerials, pole, juggling, slack wire, clown, hula hoops, contortion, etc.)

• Developed act choreography with students, focusing on fluidity, quality of performance & transitions
• Trained all levels in aerials, contortion, and movement

"YOU"

• assisted with a remount of a solo circus show
• finessed dramaturgy, choreography, musicality, timing, and comedy

Filament

• Oversaw the overall quality of movement and choreography in the show
• Offered constructive advice to help team members improve performance.

Schematics

• Created an original show in collaboration with cast and production team
• Choreographed new acts with various circus disciplines
• Conceived and realized experimental ideas
• Blended genres of circus, spoken word, multimedia, and absurd theatre

Le Petit Bleu

• Workshopped and developed experimental ideas in collaboration with professionals of various disciplines such as: multimedia, mapping & projections, live electronic music, dance, performance art, club site specific performance, photography, design, and fashion