Veronica Blair has studied with prominent artists including LaNorma Fox, Ringling Bros. African-American Aerialist Pa-Mela Hernandez, and the renowned Gérard Fasoli of Centre National des Arts du Cirque / Cnac. Her first professional performance was at the age of 17, the youngest professional African-American trapeze artists in the U.S.Veronica was personally selected by Cedric Walker, the founder of Universoul Circus, as a single trapeze artist and was the show’s resident aerialist for 5 years.
Veronica has since performed with several other renowned groups and productions around the globe such as AntiGravity, Universal Studios Japan and Warner Bros. Music. She has been a part of Germany’s “AFRIKA! AFRIKA!”, a lead aerialist in KAMAU’s “BooDha” music video and also launched “The Uncle Junior Project”. In 2017 she was a speaker at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and served as organizer and moderator on a panel highlighting the African-American circus experience. She’s also worked with the African-American Art and Culture Complex to stage Entrapment to Entertainment: A Celebration of Blacks in American Circus,
Veronica is a professional circus performer and educator and currently head of soft aerial apparatus at Circus Center San Francisco, and the head coach of the San Francisco Youth Circus.
