Kate Vilain
Kate began her aerial training in San Francisco in 2003, focusing on static trapeze for a year under first Lorelei Ashe and then Elena Panova. After a 9-year hiatus following a move to Kansas City, she resumed training and took private lessons on static trapeze, corde lisse, and lyra until Fall of 2018, when she began to train at Kansas City Aerial Arts as a student, joining the Training Company in August 2019. In Spring 2021, she joined Circus Scorpius’s student company Circ.S where she has added handstanding, juggling, and straps to her training repertoire. Kate has performed stage shows and gigs—private and public—on rope, static trapeze, dance trapeze, duo trapeze, and duo lyra, with a few dance and acro bits thrown in. Her fondest aerial show experiences so far have been playing Patrick Mahomes (as “the Nutcracker”) in KCAA/VidaDance’s productions of Cracked! and playing the immature RuPunzel in Circus Scorpius’s The Glass Combat Boot.
Disciplines: Aerial, Stilts
