Sarah Houbolt's guest appearances

Sarah Houbolt

Ideas at the House

NIRIN Podcast Series

Sam Harris

Alain De Botton

Arianna Huffington

Michael Mosley

Arlie Hochschild

Eve Ensler

Yanis Varoufakis

Michael Pollan

Dan Harmon

David Chang

Elizabeth Gilbert

Noam Chomsky

Chanel Miller

Denise Ho

P.J. O'Rourke

OwlTail

This podcast was made in collaboration with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Studio and field recordings: AFTRS Outro Song: 'Bumping Into You' by Natalie Te Paa Sound engineering: Barnie Duncan Sarah Houbolt is a Sydney 2000 Paralympian, international accessibility consultant and multi award-winning artist. She trained at Vulcana Women’s Circus before moving to New Zealand to work with circus theatre, children’s theatre and integrated dance companies, as well as on independent productions, film and TV. Sarah’s film highlights include featuring in Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Worlds Away’ and female lead in ‘Reflections in the Dust’. She was awarded the national Artistic Achievement Award by Arts Access Aotearoa in 2012, and organised the 2014 InterAct Disability Arts Festival. In 2015 she moved back to Australia and began creating her Green Room Award winning solo touring show Koo Koo the Bird Girl. In 2016 she spoke at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and organised the national arts and disability conference, Arts Activated. In 2017 Sarah spoke at TEDxSydney and in 2018 she spoke at the UN, NYC. Sarah is a CreateNSW fellowship recipient and a renowned Natural Born Freak. She spends the American summers working in the world famous Coney Island freak show and the clubs in New York, and has also worked with UK theatre companies Extant, Graeae and Extraordinary Bodies, and cabarets in London. Sarah was a Scent of Sydney artist for Sydney Festival and is thrilled to be a part of the Biennale of Sydney.Support the show: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/get-involved/donate/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This podcast was made in collaboration with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. Studio and field recordings: AFTRS Outro Song: 'Bumping Into You' by Natalie Te Paa Sound engineering: Barnie Duncan Sarah Houbolt is a Sydney 2000 Paralympian, international accessibility consultant and multi award-winning artist. She trained at Vulcana Women’s Circus before moving to New Zealand to work with circus theatre, children’s theatre and integrated dance companies, as well as on independent productions, film and TV. Sarah’s film highlights include featuring in Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Worlds Away’ and female lead in ‘Reflections in the Dust’. She was awarded the national Artistic Achievement Award by Arts Access Aotearoa in 2012, and organised the 2014 InterAct Disability Arts Festival. In 2015 she moved back to Australia and began creating her Green Room Award winning solo touring show Koo Koo the Bird Girl. In 2016 she spoke at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and organised the national arts and disability conference, Arts Activated. In 2017 Sarah spoke at TEDxSydney and in 2018 she spoke at the UN, NYC. Sarah is a CreateNSW fellowship recipient and a renowned Natural Born Freak. She spends the American summers working in the world famous Coney Island freak show and the clubs in New York, and has also worked with UK theatre companies Extant, Graeae and Extraordinary Bodies, and cabarets in London. Sarah was a Scent of Sydney artist for Sydney Festival and is thrilled to be a part of the Biennale of Sydney.<a href="https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/get-involved/donate/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/get-involved/donate/</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

NIRIN Podcast Series: Episode 4: Uneven Paths with Sarah Houbolt

What is the place on our stages and in public life for performers who don’t fit the conventional view of what an artist should be? In the past, ‘natural born freaks’ were the stars of sideshow performances, but this is now buried as the embarrassing past. Why should we ignore this history of performers with disability? And if we do, how can we celebrate the unique artistry of those who are different, who are ‘freaks like me’? Sarah Houbolt is an accomplished international circus and physical theatre performer, trained in aerials, acrobatics and hula hoop. By day she works at Accessible Arts in Sydney, and by night she is KooKoo the Birdgirl. Her show reel consists of everything from Cirque du Soleil to corporate aerials to starring as Hairy Maclary in children's theatre. Sarah loves bed of nails, angle grinding and blockhead. Sarah worked with Sideshow Wonderland at Adelaide Fringe 2015, and has created a one-woman show based on KooKoo the Birdgirl, a character from the controversial film Freaks (1932). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is the place on our stages and in public life for performers who don’t fit the conventional view of what an artist should be? In the past, ‘natural born freaks’ were the stars of sideshow performances, but this is now buried as the embarrassing past. Why should we ignore this history of performers with disability? And if we do, how can we celebrate the unique artistry of those who are different, who are ‘freaks like me’? Sarah Houbolt is an accomplished international circus and physical theatre performer, trained in aerials, acrobatics and hula hoop. By day she works at Accessible Arts in Sydney, and by night she is KooKoo the Birdgirl. Her show reel consists of everything from Cirque du Soleil to corporate aerials to starring as Hairy Maclary in children's theatre. Sarah loves bed of nails, angle grinding and blockhead. Sarah worked with Sideshow Wonderland at Adelaide Fringe 2015, and has created a one-woman show based on KooKoo the Birdgirl, a character from the controversial film Freaks (1932). Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Sarah Houbolt: Freaks Like Me