aerialist

Every night they’re open, Tuesdays through Saturdays, there is some form of entertainment happening during prime dinner hours, from jazz and Americana music to aerialist shows.

But after all that, the scheduled aerialist was out sick.

In the spring of 2004, Ron W. Bailey, a musician who has performed in the gutters of Pike Place Market, gathered a few of his friends — a bubble magician, an aerialist, a clown and several actors from the Fremont Players community theater group — and started Seattle’s own vaudeville and variety show: the Moisture Festival.

“The reason that I was so interested in doing Dracula is because Dracula as a character is naturally a shapeshifter. It lended itself towards contortionists, towards flying through the air with an aerialist, towards motion in general,” says Mann, who was drawn to circus entertainment but is also an accomplished contemporary dancer and choreographer as well.

With Dracula poised to assassinate her longtime rival, Tan rightfully brought this sensibility, and her aerialist abilities, to the role.