"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

Liselle is a neuro-divergent performance artist and director of Not Your Circus Dog Collective (2018). In 2019 she directed Not F**kin’ Sorry in 2019 (https://notyourcircusdog.wixsi... for Soho Theatre. She also makes feminist crip performance as Doris La Trine. In 2018, she curated and hosted Wickedly Wild Women Cabaret for WoW Women of the World at Southbank Centre, & for Royal CourtTheatre, Take-Up Space Cabaret. Liselle is an Associate Professor in Performance at University of East London whereby she co-runs a degree, publishes and presents on her performance-practice. Terret’s solo performances as alter-ego Doris La Trine has toured nationally including Duckie’s, Café De Paris, The Chelsea Theatre with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stevens, Limerick Arts Festival, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, WoW Festival, Southbank Centre, Take up Space Cabaret at the Royal Court Theatre, DaDa Festival, The Sisterhood, Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival, and Word Of Warning.

Liselle co- founded with Access All Areas, the Diploma in Performance Making for adults with Learning Disabilities & Autism Central School of Speech & Drama that won the Guardian University Award for Student Diversity and Widening Participation in 2015. Liselle’s Performance-Practice is conducted collaboratively with learning disabled and neuro-divergent artists, co-constructing radical and political questions about continued exclusion and discriminatory assumptions around binaries of ‘ability/disability’. "