NoT YoUr CiRcUs DoG CoLlEcTiVe (the Circus Dogs) are a collective of learning-disabled & neuro-divergent artists. The Circus Dogs make radical, political, subversive & shameless sexy punk queer crip cabaret-theatre and are an Associate Company of Access All Areas.

We are Stephanie Newman, Adam Smith, DJ (Housni Hassan), Xandri/Emma Selwyn, Daisy Hale, Liselle Terret/Doris La Trine

Xandri / Emma is a performance artist, actor, director. Since graduating from the Access All Areas’ 2016 Performance Making Diploma at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2016 Emma has performed 2 solo shows:

My Hands and Feet are Wiggling for Steakhouse Live at Rich Mix, 2016; & performed in Norway and at the Aespia festival.

#Binariesbegone - performed in 2019 for Battersea Arts Centre Occupy Festival, and GLYPT Pride festival and the Autism Arts festival at the University of Kent. As a co-founding member of The Circus Dogs in 2019 their Not F**kin’ Sorry was performed at Soho Theatre, with iterations of it at Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Duckie, WOW festival, Southbank Centre and the Royal Court Theatre.

They are a member of the Access All Areas Performance Company and in 2020 performed in unReal City at the Battersea Arts Centre with Access All Areas and dreamthinkspeak. Emma and Liselle have written, published and presented a number of chapters together on their crip performance practice. Most recently Emma co-directed The Interrogation for Access Areas: http://www.accessallareastheat... "