Lauren K Jones
Lauren K Jones started her artistic career as a company member with Longview Ballet Theatre in Longview, Texas and continued with North Carolina School of Performing Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. After graduating Southern Methodist University, she lived in Europe for three years working as a fashion model. She then moved to New York City where she was signed to Wilhelmina Models, Inc. as a fashion print and runway model and to Carol Ingber & Associates for TV and film. She was based in NYC for the next 20 years with a brief one year hiatus in Los Angeles where she opened and developed the Sophisticated Women’s division for Wilhelmina LA as recruiter and head agent for the division. She is a vested member of SAG-AFTRA.
She graduated with dual MBA degrees in 2005 from London School of Business in London, UK, and Columbia Business School, NYC and currently resides in Cape Girardeau, Missouri with her husband and she has two children. She owns, operates, and teaches at The Edge Pilates-Aerial Arts and was an adjunct professor at the Holland College of Art & Media at Southeast Missouri State University from 2017-2022 where she developed their aerial arts program. She had students that have become professional aerialists/circus artists working with companies such as Virgin Voyages, Aerial Dance Chicago, San Diego Circus Center, Actor's Gymnasium, and New England Center for Circus Arts to name a few.
She is a certified aerial apparatus instructor obtaining over 450 hours of teacher training in fabric, sling, trapeze, rope & pole. She completed her 150 hour certifications in Aerial Arts Sequence: Theatre, Dance, or Recreational Circus and also in Peak Performance Aerial Sequencing. She is also an E-RYT200. Lauren has choreographed and performed on the aerial fabric, rope and trapeze both nationally and internationally and has realigned with Wilhelmina Models, Inc NYC as an aerialist for their Fitness Division. She is a vested member of SAG/AFTRA and also maintains membership in American Circus Educators, Pilates Method Alliance, Yoga Alliance and Pole Fitness Alliance.
Recognizing that there was an abundance of specialty & contemporary cirque talent in the Southeast Missouri area, and drawing upon her experience as a former talent agent, she formed Cape Specialty Entertainment Group in April of 2020 to bring professional talent in the Midwest region all under one roof. SoulSystems Orchestra based in NYC became aware of Cape Specialty Entertainment Group through word of mouth and is affiliated with them to book aerial and contemporary cirque talent on a national level. She conceived, write, directed and choreographed CSEG’s first full length, original contemporary cirque/cabaret show which debuted in the Bedell Theater in June of 2022. She is currently collaborating with the Director of Youth Programming at The Edge Aerial & Circus Arts to develop another full length feature adapting Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” as an aerial and contemporary circus arts show with the projected date of opening in March of 2024.
