Sarah Bebe Holmes

Sarah Bebe Holmes: Co Artistic Director of Paper Doll Militia Sarah Bebe Holmes’ aerial style is characterized by quality of movement, emotional narrative content, and original innovative choreography. Sarah is co-founder and co-artistic director of LA/Edinburgh based aerial theatre company, Paper Doll Militia, which in turn has been creating progressive aerial theatre in the States since 2006 and set up headquarters in Edinburgh in 2013. She has performed, choreographed and taught around the US, UK, India, Lebanon, Egypt, Austria, Germany, Croatia and Greece, including Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival, Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, New Orleans Fringe Festival, National Mallakhamb Championship (Mumbai, India), Treasure Island Music Festival (San Francisco), and Derry City of Culture (Ireland). Sarah also co-founded Structural Integrity Project (SIP), an international aerial film project;that filmed aerial in unexpected locations, including  silks on a banyan tree outside an abandoned palace in Lebanon, chain suspended from stationary cranes in Edinburgh, and the underside of the onramp to San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge. Sarah  toured as an aerialist with London-based threesixty Entertainment’s 1300-seat pavilion production of Peter Pan, as well as with Osborne&What’s production of Birdy 2015. Sarah  choreographs and directs circus aerial productions including Sharashif (Beirut Lebanon), Two and a Half Sisters (Zagreb, Croatia), SnowQueen (Zagreb, Croatia) and RISE (Edinburgh Scotland) and currently working on EGG, an aerial theatre production on aerials plastic looking at our modern approach to fertility. Sarah Co-produced and had a leading role in LoopsEnd, which toured the US and UK in 2016.