When the costumes go on and the makeup’s applied, when the music kicks in and the lights flick to life, the performers of Infamous The Show take to the stage.
They are the death defying and the raunchy, and in their Spiegel Big Top they travel across the country as one of Australia’s biggest circuses.
But behind the scenes of their bombastic performances are the performers, including the unassuming Jemima - a “newbie” to the circus scene who is the on stage sexy Blonde Bombshell, Marilyn – and the seasoned professional, Jensen, a seventh-generation circus performer.
Jemima, who was born in the Gold Coast, started out as one of the ensemble dancers, she progressed to centre stage and “ties the whole show together.”
“I’m one of the main characters now - mostly dancing but I’m mingling all through the audience throughout the show and getting the crowd going,” Jemima said.
“Involving myself in every part of the show, really – she’s Marilyn with a more contemporary, sexy vibe. And that’s hard to be sexier than she was!”
With a background as a dancer, Jemima has travelled across the world and took to circus life back on her home shores three years ago.
She attributes why she’s slotted in so well to the family feeling Infamous exudes, which is a feeling she shares with Jensen.
“The Circus always calls back to me, no matter how long you’re out of it,” Jensen said.
Jensen’s family, the Ashtons, have been proprietors of circuses for 180 years, back to 1850, and he has always lived in the Big Top – it’s his home.
His role is on the Wheel Of Death, a large rotating apparatus on which he carries out synchronised acrobatic skills with a partner, and it has always been his dream to be on it.
“My first memory of the circus was when I was three years old, and my dad and uncle were doing the Wheel of Death at the time,” he said.
“They stopped, took me up and held my hands while we did it.”
This pair with vastly different roles and experiences – one a dancer, the other an acrobat – are part of the Infamous family. Catch them while you can over the weekend
for an incredible evening of Cabaret.
Jemima as Marilyn
Jensen on the Wheel of Death with his partner
Images: Lu-Ella Oxley SB Photography
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