BIOGRAPHY
Gypsy Snider
A.R.T.: Pippin (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards). Gypsy Snider has dedicated her life’s research and work toward the melding of movement, theater, and circus. In 2002 she co-founded The 7 Fingers, a contemporary circus and production company where she created a series of shows: En Panne, SisterS, Réversible, Intersection, Amuse, Un Día, Traces, and Loft. She has choreographed televised feature performances for “America’s Got Talent”, Her Majesty’s “Royal Variety Performance”, the illusionist Darcy Oake, the EUFA, and several large-scale fashion shows in Asia. Most recently she created a show for the Virgin Voyages Cruise Line. Born and raised in San Francisco, Gypsy began her circus career at the age of 4 when her parents founded The Pickle Family Circus. She toured with the company for most of her childhood. She went on to graduate from the Dimitri Accademia of Physical Theatre in Switzerland. Gypsy then performed with the Cirque du Soleil for several years before creating Les 7 Doigts de la main in Montreal, Quebec. Gypsy is also a guest teacher and director at the National Circus School of Montreal. In 2015, she received the Evolving Circus Award in New York City, presented by Diane Paulus. She was invited to speak at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, in 2017 on Circus Arts in the United States.