JOSEPHINE SOMERVILLE

Josephine Somerville is a dynamic, expressive circus artist.  Specializing in tippy lyra and german wheel, Josephine enjoys finding new and unexpected movements on any apparatus, and is particularly drawn to circles, with their finite infinity.

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Josephine grew up reading books and making music on an aspiring suburban farm in Boston, MA, with her family cats, dog, occasional bees, and eventually chickens. She has been performing since age 4, singing the entire soundtrack of The Sound of Music on her grandparents' porch. At age 12, Josephine went to a circus show with her oma and fell in love. A few years later, she started taking circus classes, and soon she was spending all her free time in the air or rolling around in a wheel. After graduating from college with a BS in neuroscience, Josephine completed the New England Center for Circus Arts ProTrack Program in 2023. She has since graced theaters and tents across North America and Europe and is excited to continue doing circus across the globe! Josephine is also a trained and experienced circus rigger and coach. When not upside down, Josephine can be found baking cookies, befriending neighborhood cats, or gallivanting about forests and mountains.