Jonas Whalen

Jonas has been studying performance since his first Scottish highland dance lessons at 5 years old, with the Colorado Youth Pipe Band. He went on to study theater at Denver School of the Arts and has continued his education incessantly ever since. Currently studying spanish and translation at MSU Denver he makes is a stage hand with Local IASTE #7, working concerts at Red Rocks amphitheater through the summers and trade shows at the CCC the rest of the year. Jonas has always had a keen interest in aesthetics and the philosophy of art his current curiosities include the ways we describe pain, Latin American aesthetics, and turtle mythology. His broad appreciation of art and aesthetics (sometimes unfiltered to a fault) is a chief source for his love of contemporary circus and its multifaceted engagement with its audience.