Originally a Lingerie, Apparel and costume designer, Melissa let her love of music carry her into dance and ultimately found aerial dance. She now finds herself performing on stages, in theaters, galleries and nightclubs much like the performers she once costumed.
She builds a repertoire of original acts and characters specifically for each client or occasion. These acts create an atmosphere that goes beyond the typical dimensions of entertainment as they take flight. Styles range from modern movement, vaudeville, cirque, daredevil, fantasy, overt sexuality, to fetish. Her characters have many themes: an organ grinder with her monkey, the preening peacock, flying spirits, sexy aerial go-go dancers, or vaudeville clowns vying for each other’s attention.
Melissa enjoys the spotlight and a breathless audience, hearing the surprise and screams coming from a crowd or watching the lights dance on her skin while she defies gravity. Most of all she aims to be an expression of beauty, music, or theme touching the audience in a striking, memorable and inspiring way.
Now Melissa is working on new circus skills such as fan dancing , fire fans, poi, rope dart, and jumping stilts or using her previous skills such as target cutting to create bullwhip acts. Costuming and apparel design remain a passion and lend themselves heavily to characters and involvement in circus as well.
Melissa Coffey
Name: Melissa Coffey
Hometown: Atlanta, GA USA
Upcoming Events:
June 5th Flux -the Livingston
June 6th Aerial Jam! - Pera Dance Studio
June 13th Aerial Jam! - Pera Dance Studio
June 20th Aerial Jam! - Pera Dance Studio
Past Events:
November 6th aerial gogo at Tongue and Groove nightclub Atlanta, GA
November 13th Art Party at Blue Tower
Atlanta, GA
November 21st+ 22nd La Caverna Nightclub
Atlanta, GA
November 21st The Dair Project Cultural Revival “Arabesque”
Atlanta, GA
December 1st World AIDS Day event
Prickly Pear- Atlanta, GA
Feb 26th Cirque Du Couer at Atlanta Athletic Club
Mar 20th Alice in Circus Land- the jungle, Atlanta
Mar 27th Moulin Rouge event with the Hot Toddies, Atlanta
April 11th Private event with Hot Toddies
April 16th pARTy
May 15th Rock n’ Rumble the Fillmore, NC
