Erin Ball

Image description: Erin, a white femme and double below knee amputee, hangs high in the air with the biggest smile because she’s in her element. Her fiery hair flows as she dangles from white aerial fabric with clear white skies as a fun backdrop. She has just said a line (live!) about people who harass her and the audience laughed. Joy. The photographer was upside down when she took the photo and the perspective is disorienting. Erin’s silver and purple skin tight bodysuit shines in the sun.
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Erin Ball identifies as a white, Mad (from the Mad Pride Movement), Disabled  treaty inhabitant. She is a double below knee amputee and circus artist based in Katarokwi/Kingston. She is the director of Kingston Circus Arts and is the co-founder of LEGacy Circus (a performance company co-created with Mad artist, Vanessa Furlong). Erin achieved Disability in 2014 and she took a year off. She has since returned to her passion of training, coaching and performing with a focus of including as many people in her audiences, as collaborators and performers in shows, as well as students in her classes. She has traveled internationally to perform and teach. She strives for representation, access and inclusion in the arts.
Erin loves collaborating, adapting and creating new/different ways of executing skills. In 2017, Erin developed a course and manual for movement-based coaches (specifically circus but it applies to movement in general) called Flying Footless. The course centres around dismantling ableism, Disability theory, access and methods of teaching and suggestions to work towards welcoming the Disability community into movement-based classes. She has won accessibility awards and in 2018, she was the recipient of the Creator’s Award at the Mayor’s Art Awards.

​http://www.kingstoncircusarts.com/
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