MEET MARIA PUCCIARELLI

Maria Pucciarelli is a New York native with a gymnastics background and is currently a professional circus artist and coach. After starting her gymnastics training at the age of 11, she fell in love with contortion and hand balancing and quickly switched to training in circus arts at the age of 14. Not long after that she started performing professionally in circus at the age of 15 and has been performing in venues all over the United States and internationally since then. In addition to her own circus career, she has been coaching youth circus artists as well. She has received multiple choreography awards for her students’ contortion acts and her students have gone on to perform their acts professionally and in various venues across the United States. She has a huge dedication to her students training and makes sure to approach each student with individualized training that is specialized to help them reach their goals, build confidence, and advance their training and skills. Maria looks forward to coaching her students and performing her own acts for years to come.