Creative Team
Amanda Miles
Executive Producer & Managing Director of Air Dance Productions & My Aerial Home
Trained as a professional dancer at the Arts Educational Schools, Amanda has worked extensively as a dancer in all forms of theatre and TV before moving into theatrical management as an agent for dancers, models and choreographers before moving into TV production where she created and produced television entertainment shows for all the major channels for over 20 years. Clients included the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and was Disney Channel's talent executive working around the globe.
Trained in trapeze and rope at the National Centre for Circus Arts Amanda has created aerial pieces for Naughty Boy at the MOBO awards and for the Launch of the latest Lotus electric car. Amanda has worked in the cruise industry for over 10 years creating routines for P&O as part of their productions shows. Air Dance Productions is a fantastic way of bringing her extensive production knowledge and her love of aerial arts together in one place to create unique pieces of aerial theatre.
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Jen Robinson
Lead Choreographer, Ground & Air
Jen Robinson has a BA (Hons) degree in Dance and Theatre Performance from Bird College in London. After graduating she went on to specialise in aerial circus and has been performing and teaching aerial skills for over 10 years.
Her aerial performance highlights include: Chess at the London Coliseum; the UK tour of Barnum; The Red Shoes for Upswing; The Hidden People at Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre, and motion capture in VR film Fallax for Hikapee aerial theatre and Huldefugl. She was the aerial consultant on the British feature films The Limehouse Golem and Love Sarah.
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Rachel Entwistle
Lead Choreographer, Ground & Air
Rachel Entwistle has a BA (Hons) degree from LIPA and won the prestigious LIPA dance award during her time there.
Rachel trained in circus to diversify her skill set and bring a new dimension to her creative projects. As a performer she has worked extensively with Hikapee Theatre Company both performing and devising new shows and her work has humour as well as a high level of aerial skill. Rachel devised and appeared as part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations. Rachel's first love is Rope but has a broad knowledge of all the aerial disciplines.
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Iryna Korniichuk
Associate Choreographer, Air
Originally from the Ukraine, Iryna is a professional aerial gymnast with a degree in circus from the Kiev Municipal Academy of Circus Arts in the Ukraine. Her specialisation was trapeze but after many years working on cruise ships she can turn her incredible ability to all of the aerial disciplines.
Starting as an artistic gymnast, aged five, she changed tack at twelve to train in circus. She started her professional career in Turkey as a solo performer and has worked all around the world before joining AIDA cruises as their aerial performer. Iryna stayed with AIDA for over five years but it was when she met her husband who was a singer they left sea life and moved to the UK where she has been working as a performer, teacher and choreographer since 2020.
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Tabbi Coleman
Assistant Choreographer, Ground & Air
Tabbi trained at Bodywork Company in Cambridge and has a Level 6 diploma in professional dance. She came to My Aerial Home in 2016 and started training aerial on our 1 month Foundation course before getting her first professional aerial contract on a cruise ship where she also worked as a dancer and magicians assistant alongside her aerial act.
During her time on the ships she worked her way up to dance captain and company manager. Coming back to the UK she continued to train aerial, completing a three month professional course and was Air Dance’s first aerial cast on the recently launched Arvia. Since returning to land she has joined the production team as assistant choreographer and brings her sunny disposition to every rehearsal.
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Leigh Miles
Ground Choreographer
Leigh has recently joined the Air Dance Production Team as a ground choreographer and movement director. Trained in dance at the Arts Educational schools she worked extensively as a professional dancer in the TV industry working with all the great tv personalities of the time. In 1995 she became a choreographer and continued her work on premier television productions and feature films.
Leigh is skilled at working with both large numbers of artists on feature films and large TV entertainment shows as well as working with artists who need encouragement to find their performance.
Production Team
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Zöe Marshall
Head of Production
Zoe had a 15 year career in television production and was a producer/director in factual entertainment and documentaries. Her numerous career highlights include hanging out of the side of an RAF helicopter filming over the Cairngorms at night. Being serenaded by Bill Bailey with his Death Metal Version of the Friends Theme whilst driving around the New Forest and appearing on Dom Joly’s show as a Dancing Monkey.
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Lynn Nguyen
Production Assistant
Lynn has a Degree in hospitality management Portsmouth University (BA Hons) and has recently joined the company working across many organisational areas.