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🎪 Meet the Cast: Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2026
Meet Emma Grace, aerialist, Sarasota native, and one of the most decorated young circus performers in the world today.
Emma began training at the age of six, graduating from the Sailor Circus Academy and Sarasota High School`s Circus Arts magnet program. At just 11 years old, she was the youngest circus performer at the 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall, performing for more than one million visitors. Now she returns to that same stage nine years later as a world-class professional.
Since launching her professional career in 2023, Emma has performed across the United States as a featured solo aerialist in Nik Wallenda`s Wonderland. She has since joined the world-renowned Flying Caballeros, considered the world`s best flying trapeze troupe, and most recently took home the prestigious Golden Clown award at the 2025 Monte Carlo International Circus Festival. She also performed at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam with the Flying Caballeros and continues to work with them internationally.
This Labor Day weekend, she brings her breathtaking aerial artistry to the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Three shows daily, September 5-7. Free and open to the public!
🎪 #AerialArts #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #CircusArtsConservatory #SailorCircus #MeetTheCast
🇺🇸 As America celebrates 250 years, the story of the circus runs right alongside it. Few art forms are as woven into the fabric of this country and this Labor Day weekend, the Circus Arts Conservatory gets to tell that story on the National Mall.
We are so proud to be part of this moment. September 5-7 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Free and open to the public!
📸 from The CAC at Smithsonian in 2017
🎪 #America250 #CircusArtsConservatory #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #Sarasota
🎪 Meet the Cast: Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2026
Meet your host! Chris Allison`s love for circus life began with a school trip to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the rest, as they say, is history.
After graduating from the legendary Ringling Bros. Clown College, Chris spent eleven years touring with The Greatest Show on Earth, including three years as Boss Clown. He has performed across the U.S., Europe, China, Hong Kong, and Mexico, entertained guests at Walt Disney World for eight years as Coney Island Chris, and appeared on America`s Got Talent, The Late Show with David Letterman, Oprah, and The Today Show.
Sarasota already knows and loves him from Circus Sarasota, and this Labor Day weekend, he takes the Rotunda stage at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival as host of our world-class productions. Three shows daily, September 5-7. Free and open to the public! 🎪
#ChrisAllison #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #CircusArtsConservatory #Sarasota #LiveCircus #MeetTheCast
🎪 Big news, Sarasota. The Circus Arts Conservatory is heading to Washington, D.C. this Labor Day weekend, and we`re bringing 26 Sailor Circus Academy students, 12 world-class professional artists, two trucks of equipment, and about a hundred years of circus tradition with us.
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival called. We answered. 💛
#CircusArtsConservatory #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #SailorCircus #Sarasota
🎪 We are so grateful to our friends at ABC7 Sarasota - WWSB for coming out and sharing our story! Our Sailor Circus students are Washington D.C. bound and the whole Suncoast is watching. 🙌
Twenty-six kids. One very big stage. One incredible community behind them. Thank you, ABC7, for helping us tell this story. 💛
Oh, and is that @alyssaperry.tv in the silks??? You`ll have to watch to find out. 👀
#CircusArtsConservatory #SailorCircus #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #ABC7 #MySuncoast #Sarasota #WashingtonDC #America250
📺 Watch the full story at the link in bio!
#CircusArtsConservatory #SailorCircus #SmithsonianFolklifeFestival #ABC7 #Sarasota #MySuncoast #WashingtonDC #America250
🤩 Thank You, Sarasota, for an AMAZING 2026 Summer Circus Spectacular season! 👀 Stay tuned for our ACTION-PACKED 2026-27 season, launching soon! 🎪
🎪🌟 CLOSING DAY! Today is the FINAL performance of the Summer Circus Spectacular at the Historic Asolo Theater - shows at 2:00 PM & 5:00 PM. This is your last opportunity to witness this extraordinary cast of world-class circus artists. We are so grateful for an incredible summer. Thank you, Sarasota! 🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio - the curtain falls tonight. #ClosingDay #SummerCircusSpectacular #CircusArtsConservatory #ThankYouSarasota
🚨 This is your final warning, Sarasota. 🚨
The Summer Circus Spectacular closes THIS SATURDAY, and there are only FIVE shows left. Today at 2:00 PM, tomorrow at 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM, and two final shows Saturday at 2:00 PM & 5:00 PM at the Historic Asolo Theater.
This is a world-class cast of international circus artists you will not see together again. When the curtain comes down Saturday night, that`s it. Don`t be the person who meant to go and didn`t. 🎪
🎟️ Grab your tickets now, link in bio. This one you`ll regret missing.
#LastChance #SummerCircusSpectacular #CircusArtsConservatory #ClosingWeekend #Sarasota #SeeItBeforeItsGone
