Blog | Katie Hardwick

Mar 22, 2019
1 min

Primary Paper Magazine with Vicki King

I was absolutely honoured to work with the incredible talents of Vicki King and Celia Burton in 2018, to create images based on the colour purple for Issue 1 of Primary Paper Magazine. Shooting on film and experimenting with bubbles, glitter, textures and light, Vicki King captured a series of portraits and acrobatic shots for submission to the magazine. We shot at her home and a nearby park with Celia Burton makeup, then at Aircraft Circus' Creation Studio. Here are some lin

23 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Nov 3, 2017
1 min

Blood From Above

Halloween 2017 The Vaults, Waterloo Bespoke aerial bat character for the Extreme Music 20 Years Undead Halloween party. Freestyle aerial hoop sets with wings and heels. Blood bags containing alcoholic drink were poured into the mouths of guests, as I took up different positions on the lyra. "You were AMAZING!! I was totally blown away." - Calum Brice-Stevens, Extreme Music. #aerialbartending #TheVaults #Waterloo #London #bespoke #entertainment #Halloween #bat #aerialhoop #lyr

9 views0 comments

Wedding Reception with Freestanding Aerial Rig

Katie Hardwick

Nov 3, 2017
1 min

Wedding Reception with Freestanding Aerial Rig

Ambient and interactive wedding reception entertainment for a beautiful wedding in Cambridge. Photographs captured by www.vividartweddings.co.uk In Queen's College, Cambridge, I erected and decorated a freestanding aerial rig for a Great Gatsby themed wedding reception. As guests entered the reception, I performed an energetic hoop act, creating excitement, animating the space and providing a focus for the beginning of the evening celebrations. After a short break, I returned

55 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Jul 6, 2017
1 min

Ritual of Light Silks Performance

I performed a bespoke aerial act as a character harnessing the ritual of light, at the Interiors House event for Italian designed chairs. The event was curated by Hoxton Lab, with art director Erica Mainini directing the aerial performance as the focus of the event. Anna Walker made my bespoke white aerial costume. The room at The Worx Studios was decorated with chairs and art sculptures, with an emotive soundtrack and atmospheric lights, so that the ambience was more art exh

34 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Jul 29, 2016
1 min

Bringing Ibiza to Ascot

The weather for the King George weekend at Ascot was a hot as in Ibiza. For the Saturday entertainment, a cocktail bar and white outdoor lounge area were set up by the events team at Ascot Racecourse, with Dj A-Roxx (Andy Critchlow) playing chillout music as guests took a break from watching the races. I provided the aerial entertainment with four, twenty minute long sets of freestyle aerial silks dance to the Dj music throughout the day, in a white a multi-coloured Ibiza the

71 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Jul 17, 2016
1 min

Aerial Acrobatics in the Glasshouse

This weekend was the third annual arts festival at RHS Garden Wisley. I returned to the beautiful Glasshouse to perform aerial acrobatics, which is my favourite venue in Surrey. I rigged silks and a hoop with the help of the cherry picker which is used to tend to plants high in the greenhouse. I performed four shows of eight minutes daily, each featuring an act on aerial hoop and on silks. My costume was made by Loz at DesignGuise. #WisleyArtsFest #2016 #Glasshouse #Wisley #a

47 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Feb 4, 2016
2 min

LUSH Alice in Wonderland Party

Les Enfants Terribles transformed the Bournemouth International Centre into an immersive Alice in Wonderland world, for the vegan cosmetics brand LUSH's Spring 2016 conference party. Parts of the set from the Alice's Adventures Underground show at the Vaults in Waterloo were transported to Bournemouth for the corporate event with a difference. Guests chose "Drink Me" or "Eat Me" to determine which tunnel they passed through to enter Wonderland. One tunnel led guests past the

72 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Jun 7, 2015
1 min

Starfiz Prohibition Party Entertainment

Petersham Road created one of the most decadent 18th birthday parties I've seen, at Hoxton Docks, for one very lucky teenager! The former industrial space was transformed into a 1920s speakeasy, with guests slipping through secret curtains to enter into a forbidden world of jazz bands, cocktails, gambling and dancing. As the guests stepped into the grounds of the warehouses, behind Kingsland Road, Leyla and myself performed ambient aerial hoop as glamorous circus performers,

6 views0 comments

Aerial Showgirl for Lisa Tchenguiz's 50th

Katie Hardwick

Jan 25, 2015
1 min

Aerial Showgirl for Lisa Tchenguiz's 50th

Last night was Lisa Tchenguiz's 50th birthday party at the Troxy in London, and I was one of four aerialists contorting and dancing in silks loops above the guests, being lowered and taken high on a winch. The aerial performers were organised by Graeme Clint, who himself performed a doubles trapeze act. Other acts included an aerial birdcage, showgirl dancers and some pretty great musicians! The party was extremely glamorous and we sparkled in white showgirl costumes with fea

50 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Jan 23, 2015
1 min

Stilt December, Silks January

Here is a video of my last job in 2014...stilt walking at Gatwick Airport on Christmas Eve, with The Dream Performance. You can spot me in an LED costume with a gymnastics ribbon. December was a month full of stilt walking jobs for me, with just a couple of aerial performances. January is usually a very quiet month so I took a holiday in Morocco...only to return to lots of silks jobs! Can't wait to share where I'm going at the end of this month...somewhere far far away! #stil

3 views0 comments

Harness photo shoot as Alice with Les Enfants Terribles

Katie Hardwick

Dec 16, 2014
1 min

Harness photo shoot as Alice with Les Enfants Terribles

Theatre company Les Enfants Terribles are creating a new show for 2015 - Alice's Adventures Underground - which will run from April in Waterloo's Vaults. I modelled as Alice for the show's publicity, using harness and wire work, plus a wind machine to create the effect of characters from Alice in Wonderland falling into the rabbit hole. Les Enfant's Oliver Lansley played the parts of the Mad Hatter and Rabbit, in a magical set created by designer and maker Samuel Wyer, with c

38 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Nov 12, 2014
1 min

Giltlines Classical Music Video

I have just finished shooting a music video for a waltz track called Find You Again, composed by Graham Jarvis. We spent two days in the Rhoda McGaw theatre under the direction of Doug Smith, creating an otherworldly character on the corde lisse, as the imagined character dreamed up by pianist in the video, Laurie Holloway. #giltlines #findyouagain #rope #cordelisse #waltz #dance #rhodamcgaw #theatre #shoot #musicvideo #grahamjarvis #dougsmith #katiehardwick #aerialist

7 views0 comments

Ethereal Silks Act at the Macmillan Enchanted Ball 2014

Katie Hardwick

Nov 7, 2014
1 min

Ethereal Silks Act at the Macmillan Enchanted Ball 2014

I had the great honour of performing silks at the Macmillan Enchanted Ball earlier this week. The event was held at the Savoy Hotel in London, and the theme was my favourite - enchanted woodland! #macmillan #specialevents #savoy #savoyhotel #london #ethereal #silks #cirque #enchanted #woodland #nymph #ambient #wowact #corporateentertainment #events #charity #fundraising #aerialist

7 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Oct 4, 2014
1 min

New Aerial Sphere Act

I have been working with Leyla on Starfiz's latest aerial act....the Aerial Sphere! Our first performances of our new act were at The Aeronaut pub in Acton, in a circus cabaret compered by Jon Udry. Aerial prop maker Jonathan Graham created our new apparatus so that we could further develop our Emma Insley Aerial Creation Fund Award work, which began with our unique Spinning Silks act. The Aerial Sphere is a more compact aerial act with faster spins, and can be rigged in low

34 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Oct 1, 2014
1 min

Commercial Video Clips

I have put together a short video of clips from commercial work I've done to date, which include an element of circus. For work which includes acting and modelling I have individual videos on my Moving Image page. In order of extracts, this reel contains: Silks on Strictly Come Dancing, at Wembley Arena, with Du Sol Productions. Silks and Harness / Wire Work in a Sony Xperia T3 commercial for the Beautifully crafted, Beautifully slim campaign. Silks on Sky's A League Of Their

2 views0 comments

Katie Hardwick

Aerial Circus Shows

Primary Paper Magazine with Vicki King

Blood From Above

Wedding Reception with Freestanding Aerial Rig

Ritual of Light Silks Performance

Tim Booth Photography

Bringing Ibiza to Ascot

Aerial Acrobatics in the Glasshouse

LUSH Alice in Wonderland Party

Starfiz Prohibition Party Entertainment

Aerial Showgirl for Lisa Tchenguiz's 50th

Stilt December, Silks January

Harness photo shoot as Alice with Les Enfants Terribles

Giltlines Classical Music Video

Ethereal Silks Act at the Macmillan Enchanted Ball 2014

New Aerial Sphere Act

Commercial Video Clips