PERFORMER
Pamela Kay Macdonald is a professional circus artist, aerial dance instructor, & speaker/performer based in Los Angeles, California. She consistently performs and trains in multiple disciplines within the aerial world of circus arts, including aerial sling/hammock, aerial hoop, dance trapeze, duo aerial, aerial silks, flying trapeze, and other specialty apparatuses. She has performed solo featured acts, duo pieces, ambience performances, and custom acts for traveling circuses, private parties, film/videos, print, shows, and other events, as well as special aerial performance/speaking engagements.
Pamela loves to share her great passion for the aerial arts through consistent training, performing, and teaching aerial dance. She is the owner/creator of VisionAIRy Aerial Arts , where she provides aerial instruction and services through one on one lessons and group classes at her private location. At VisionAIRy, she also combines the powers of aerial dance, music, character work/acting, photography, and film in order to produce visual storytelling through aerial art short films, pictures, and music videos in collaboration with talented cinematographers, photographers, and fellow aerial artists. In addition to circus arts, Pamela is also a professional dancer/L.A. Music Center Performing Artist in the critically acclaimed Filipino Dance Troupe and folk dance organization, Kayamanan Ng Lahi. She has a true passion for the performing arts and loves to share her joy of circus, dance, theater, and movement with others.
Pamela is known by colleagues, clients, circus coaches, and her students as a joyful, passionate, and dedicated artist - "she draws you in with her musicality, genuine emotion, and physical strength" through her performances, and brings with her "professionalism, quick learning, a contagious energy, and kind encouragement" when performing, training, and collaborating with others."*
FROM NURSE TO AERIALIST
The course of Pam's life changed when she, her husband, and their children attended a performance by Circus Vargas in her hometown. Inspired by the amazing acrobats and feeling a great "pull" towards circus, she enrolled quickly in her first aerial dance class. She immediately realized that this great art form was one of the biggest missing pieces in her life's puzzle, and finding it was nothing short of an answer to prayers.
Diving deep into training, act creation, and performing, she and her circus coaches discovered she had "a great affinity for the air enhanced by her physical strength in her small stature, innate aerial abilities, and dedicated passion."* Aerial felt completely her and completely right. Within less than 2 years of discovering aerial, Pamela found herself performing at various events, theaters, companies, universities, and venues. Things came full circle when she was offered contracts by traveling circuses such as Venardos Circus, and being brought on as the principal aerialist in Splash Cirkus, a traveling aquatic circus, on their 2023 U.S. debut tour. Pam's success helped her leave her previous career as a registered nurse in order to continue performing and teaching aerial, as well as starting VisionAIRy Aerial Arts, where she offers aerial dance instruction for children and adults.
Behind her cirque work, Pam is a wife and a mother of three. Her greatest motivation and joy is in her family, and it is with them where she feels most uplifted and grounded.
INSTRUCTOR
Pamela is an aerial dance instructor/owner of VisionAIRy Aerial Arts, where she offers aerial private lessons, online training resources, and group classes. She focuses on safe technique and progression, building strength, fluid transitions, and discovering self-expression, meaningful movement, and storytelling through the beauty of aerial dance. She is a passionate and welcoming teacher, bringing energy and encouragement to all her students. To train with Pamela, visit www.VisionAIRyAerialArts.com or contact her for more information, rates, locations, and scheduling.
SPEAKER/SOCIAL ARTIST
After discovering the aerial arts, Pamela felt inspired to use this amazing art form in a unique way to try to help others. Knowing the joy arts can bring and the power of service, she decided to combine her experience in aerial performance with her background in public speaking and working with women and children. She created unique presentations in which she combines aerial dance along with motivational speaking to uplift audiences throughout schools, retreats, camps, conferences, fundraisers, non-profit organizations, and other events. These presentations were created with the goal to encourage youth and women to pursue their talents, and to realize their potential to use those talents and strengths to strengthen others. She also has a passion for working with events and organizations that support youth, women, and the arts and that help facilitate positive change in communities.
Pamela has shared her unique presentations to uplift hundreds of girls and women through girls and women's conferences, girls camps, and other events. To learn more about Pamela coming to speak to your school, troop/group, or other event, check out the aerial speaking engagement page.
Pamela is also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Known as "The Latter-day Saint Aerialist," she also loves sharing her aerial work and faith-filled presentations with Latter-day Saint youth and women through stakes, firesides, conferences, camps, and other events in California and throughout the country.
Pamela Kay Macdonald is a professional circus artist, aerial dance instructor, & speaker/performer based in Los Angeles, California. She consistently performs and trains in multiple disciplines within the aerial world of circus arts, including aerial sling/hammock, aerial hoop, dance trapeze, duo aerial, aerial silks, flying trapeze, and other specialty apparatuses. She has performed solo featured acts, duo pieces, ambience performances, and custom acts for traveling circuses, private parties, film/videos, print, shows, and other events, as well as special aerial performance/speaking engagements.
Pamela loves to share her great passion for the aerial arts through consistent training, performing, and teaching aerial dance. She is the owner/creator of VisionAIRy Aerial Arts , where she provides aerial instruction and services through one on one lessons and group classes at her private location. At VisionAIRy, she also combines the powers of aerial dance, music, character work/acting, photography, and film in order to produce visual storytelling through aerial art short films, pictures, and music videos in collaboration with talented cinematographers, photographers, and fellow aerial artists. In addition to circus arts, Pamela is also a professional dancer/L.A. Music Center Performing Artist in the critically acclaimed Filipino Dance Troupe and folk dance organization, Kayamanan Ng Lahi. She has a true passion for the performing arts and loves to share her joy of circus, dance, theater, and movement with others.
Pamela is known by colleagues, clients, circus coaches, and her students as a joyful, passionate, and dedicated artist - "she draws you in with her musicality, genuine emotion, and physical strength" through her performances, and brings with her "professionalism, quick learning, a contagious energy, and kind encouragement" when performing, training, and collaborating with others."*
FROM NURSE TO AERIALIST
The course of Pam's life changed when she, her husband, and their children attended a performance by Circus Vargas in her hometown. Inspired by the amazing acrobats and feeling a great "pull" towards circus, she enrolled quickly in her first aerial dance class. She immediately realized that this great art form was one of the biggest missing pieces in her life's puzzle, and finding it was nothing short of an answer to prayers.
Diving deep into training, act creation, and performing, she and her circus coaches discovered she had "a great affinity for the air enhanced by her physical strength in her small stature, innate aerial abilities, and dedicated passion."* Aerial felt completely her and completely right. Within less than 2 years of discovering aerial, Pamela found herself performing at various events, theaters, companies, universities, and venues. Things came full circle when she was offered contracts by traveling circuses such as Venardos Circus, and being brought on as the principal aerialist in Splash Cirkus, a traveling aquatic circus, on their 2023 U.S. debut tour. Pam's success helped her leave her previous career as a registered nurse in order to continue performing and teaching aerial, as well as starting VisionAIRy Aerial Arts, where she offers aerial dance instruction for children and adults.
Behind her cirque work, Pam is a wife and a mother of three. Her greatest motivation and joy is in her family, and it is with them where she feels most uplifted and grounded.
INSTRUCTOR
Pamela is an aerial dance instructor/owner of VisionAIRy Aerial Arts, where she offers aerial private lessons, online training resources, and group classes. She focuses on safe technique and progression, building strength, fluid transitions, and discovering self-expression, meaningful movement, and storytelling through the beauty of aerial dance. She is a passionate and welcoming teacher, bringing energy and encouragement to all her students. To train with Pamela, visit www.VisionAIRyAerialArts.com or contact her for more information, rates, locations, and scheduling.
SPEAKER/SOCIAL ARTIST
After discovering the aerial arts, Pamela felt inspired to use this amazing art form in a unique way to try to help others. Knowing the joy arts can bring and the power of service, she decided to combine her experience in aerial performance with her background in public speaking and working with women and children. She created unique presentations in which she combines aerial dance along with motivational speaking to uplift audiences throughout schools, retreats, camps, conferences, fundraisers, non-profit organizations, and other events. These presentations were created with the goal to encourage youth and women to pursue their talents, and to realize their potential to use those talents and strengths to strengthen others. She also has a passion for working with events and organizations that support youth, women, and the arts and that help facilitate positive change in communities.
Pamela has shared her unique presentations to uplift hundreds of girls and women through girls and women's conferences, girls camps, and other events. To learn more about Pamela coming to speak to your school, troop/group, or other event, check out the aerial speaking engagement page.
Pamela is also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Known as "The Latter-day Saint Aerialist," she also loves sharing her aerial work and faith-filled presentations with Latter-day Saint youth and women through stakes, firesides, conferences, camps, and other events in California and throughout the country.
*compilation of feedback in reviews and performance evaluations from clients and coaches
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
AERIAL TRAINING & PERFORMANCE
Pamela has had the great privilege to work with and perform for various clients, circuses, organizations, venues, and troupes including (a selection): Splash Cirkus, LA Music Center Performing Artists, Level 8-DTLA, Moxy Hotel, Houston Brothers Hospitality, Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Dance Troupe, 626 Night Market, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Aya Serpent, No Vacancy, Venardos Circus (offered contract), She-Is nonprofit, Thanksgiving Point, Utah State University, Retreat for Girls, Be the Best You Girls Camp- Barbara Barrington Jones Foundation, Hilton Universal, Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union, Bootleg Theater with Rock Circus LA, Gold’s Gym events with ElevAtion Aerial Dance, The Lovely Hearts aerial dance troupe, Girl Scouts of America troops, Angels Way Maternity House, LA Women’s Shelter, Good Shepherd Shelter, Laurel House, Ladies First, various women’s/youth groups with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Online Influencers & Bonneville Communications.
Pamela has also been trained and inspired by top notch mentors, choreographers, circus schools, and coaches including legendary trapeze artists Richie Gaona of "The Flying Gaonas" and Alex Gaona, Amanda Ruth Ritchie, Rachel Bowman, Darielle Williams, Kimberely Simonetti, Tania Holt, Sita Acevedo, Lydia Lara, Womack & Bowman the Loft, Up Flying Yoga, and Cirque School.
NURSE & TRAINER
Behind her aerial work, Pamela is an ACE certified trainer and a registered nurse with a Bachelors Degree in the Science of Nursing. As a trainer, she teaches aerial dance, assists in teaching aerial yoga classes, and has taught women’s bootcamps and fitness classes throughout Los Angeles. Before entering the aerial world full-time, she worked as a nurse, specializing in the obstetrics field and working with mothers and babies in Labor & Delivery/Postpartum.
NON-PROFIT WORK
From 2014-2017, Pamela and her husband co-founded and directed Project Lead Kindly, a non-profit organization that assisted women and children in need. Pamela spoke through various workshops, presentations, and events, motivating, uplifting, and serving women and youth throughout southern California.
In 2021, Pamela proudly joined the Zip Zap Circus team as a member of the Zip Zap USA board. Zip Zap Circus is a social and professional circus that was founded in Cape Town in 1992 to inspire and empower young people through the power of circus arts. Zip Zap's youth and outreach programs are free to all its beneficiaries, and youth are trained in the circus arts, progressing through programs that provide them with opportunities to professionally perform locally and internationally. Zip Zap promotes social cohesion, creates opportunities for youth, and unlocks their limitless potential while transferring life skills to them.
Pamela believes we can take care of our brothers and sisters from different corners of the earth & in our local communities and try to better understand issues they may face. Such work can further connect us as a people globally and strengthen us individually.
Pamela has had the great privilege to work with and perform for various clients, circuses, organizations, venues, and troupes including (a selection): Splash Cirkus, LA Music Center Performing Artists, Level 8-DTLA, Moxy Hotel, Houston Brothers Hospitality, Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Dance Troupe, 626 Night Market, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Aya Serpent, No Vacancy, Venardos Circus (offered contract), She-Is nonprofit, Thanksgiving Point, Utah State University, Retreat for Girls, Be the Best You Girls Camp- Barbara Barrington Jones Foundation, Hilton Universal, Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union, Bootleg Theater with Rock Circus LA, Gold’s Gym events with ElevAtion Aerial Dance, The Lovely Hearts aerial dance troupe, Girl Scouts of America troops, Angels Way Maternity House, LA Women’s Shelter, Good Shepherd Shelter, Laurel House, Ladies First, various women’s/youth groups with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Online Influencers & Bonneville Communications.
Pamela has also been trained and inspired by top notch mentors, choreographers, circus schools, and coaches including legendary trapeze artists Richie Gaona of "The Flying Gaonas" and Alex Gaona, Amanda Ruth Ritchie, Rachel Bowman, Darielle Williams, Kimberely Simonetti, Tania Holt, Sita Acevedo, Lydia Lara, Womack & Bowman the Loft, Up Flying Yoga, and Cirque School.
NURSE & TRAINER
Behind her aerial work, Pamela is an ACE certified trainer and a registered nurse with a Bachelors Degree in the Science of Nursing. As a trainer, she teaches aerial dance, assists in teaching aerial yoga classes, and has taught women’s bootcamps and fitness classes throughout Los Angeles. Before entering the aerial world full-time, she worked as a nurse, specializing in the obstetrics field and working with mothers and babies in Labor & Delivery/Postpartum.
NON-PROFIT WORK
From 2014-2017, Pamela and her husband co-founded and directed Project Lead Kindly, a non-profit organization that assisted women and children in need. Pamela spoke through various workshops, presentations, and events, motivating, uplifting, and serving women and youth throughout southern California.
In 2021, Pamela proudly joined the Zip Zap Circus team as a member of the Zip Zap USA board. Zip Zap Circus is a social and professional circus that was founded in Cape Town in 1992 to inspire and empower young people through the power of circus arts. Zip Zap's youth and outreach programs are free to all its beneficiaries, and youth are trained in the circus arts, progressing through programs that provide them with opportunities to professionally perform locally and internationally. Zip Zap promotes social cohesion, creates opportunities for youth, and unlocks their limitless potential while transferring life skills to them.
Pamela believes we can take care of our brothers and sisters from different corners of the earth & in our local communities and try to better understand issues they may face. Such work can further connect us as a people globally and strengthen us individually.