

Raising my phone up, I squint at the bright screen and try to read the work email. Half-intoxicated by the bass thumping the Vegas club called Verona. Half-intoxicated by the liquor in my veins.


We want you to take these new changes with stride, and as a veteran artist, I need you to set an example at work. Including your discipline: Wheel of Death. This season, we’re hiring a brand new choreographer who’ll oversee every act in the show. I’d like to formally welcome you back to Infini. Earbuds in and makeup brush in hand, I nod my head to the rhythm and prepare for my job. Swiftly, I swipe out of my email and into my music. “Twenty minutes until opening!” someone shouts into the room. If someone out there wants to grant me some luck, tonight will be the last time I do the Viva makeup. I work on my eyes, blending green shadow into gold. Vibrant green swirls form leaves, but I have to add more yellow detail. I touch my carved jaw, my face a contradiction of hard and soft angles-and depending on the day, I suppose my personality is just like that too. (I have to lift one of my cousins on my shoulders, for fuck’s sake. I set my phone aside and return to the mirror.īulbous lights outline the frame and illuminate my features: tousled brown hair, captivating gray eyes (just not as much as my brothers’), and sculpted but lean arms and torso. One of my cousins grumbles, “Damn Wellness Policy,” and simultaneously reads the email while jumping into a spandex costume: forest-green, silver splashes of glitter on the neckline and sleeves. I hate mass company emails-almost as much as I hate personal company emails. Everyone in the Masquerade’s backstage dressing room pauses to check their cells. On behalf of the company, I wish the cast of Viva all the best with their performance tonight. I’d also like to remind every artist (i.e., acrobatic performers, clowns, instrumentalists, dancers, singers, etc.) of the Wellness Policy that you’re required to follow while under contract with Aerial Ethereal. Resident Shows in Las Vegas (The Masquerade Hotel & Casino): Viva, Amour, Infini Resident Show in New York (The Opal Hotel): Celeste Resident Show in Montreal (The Palace Blitz): Nova Vega As a reminder, the current Aerial Ethereal show roster is as follows. Please keep this in mind as we begin the process of hiring new & veteran artists. From: Marc Duval, Creative Director of Aerial Etherealīcc: Luka Kotova, and other undisclosed recipientsĪ new year means big changes.
