Acrojou

Blending acrobatics, hand-built structures and sublime visuals, we create unique contemporary circus experiences for events worldwide. Performance crafted from circus, story and soul.

Combining twenty three years experience in this specialist area, Acrojou provide bespoke commissions, extraordinary entertainment, one of a kind promotions, and more.

Acrojou was formed in 2006 by company co-founders Jeni Barnard and Barney White.

With backgrounds in dance, theatre and visual arts, they met whilst studying at the National Centre for Circus Arts, London. Their first performance together gained them a commission for the Trafalgar Square Festival and ‘Acrojou’ was born.

Their work has so far been seen by a hundred thousand people, toured to thirteen countries, and been broadcast on national television in the UK and Israel. It has been featured in print in the UK in The Times, The Evening Standard and Freestyle Magazine, as well as newspaper and magazine articles in the Asia, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Russia and the Czech Republic.

Online they’ve been featured on the MSN and Flickr homepages, the Huffington Post, ABC News, Trendhunter, Design Taxi, The Moscow Times, The Stage and hundreds of other blogs and online magazines in over 15 languages inc’ Russian, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Thai, Slovak, Portuguese, Hebrew, Bulgarian.

“One of Britain’s most exciting dance and circus companies… Stunningly inventive”
 – Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, 2013