Ester & Mira (working as Estis Mira) were awared a Music & Circus residency, under DYNAMO’s residency programme, exploring the crossover between musical composition and circus creation. A work in progress presentation took place in DYNAMO in June 2026.

About the performance

Estis Mira is a multidisciplinary duo performance where movement, circus techniques and music meet in an ever-shifting landscape. The artists move between seriousness and humor, to subtly create community and connection – through carrying, and being carried. By reshaping everyday materials into grand landscapes, the creation deals with the unknown and the uncertain in both the physical and inner worlds.  The artists recycle glass and old ideas, intertwining disciplines and listening to the approaching storm, in a dramaturgical blend of circus and music, inspired by Nordic folk archives. 

About the artists

Mira Leonard is a Swedish circus artist, aerial acrobat. Educated with a BA in circus from the University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm (SKH), has worked internationally as an aerial acrobat since 2009, with companies such as Cirkus Cirkör (SE), Cirk La Putyka (CZ) and Un Loup Pour L’homme (FR). Specialized in duo trapeze, hand to hand and icarian games.

Ester Thunander is a Scanian traditional and improvisational musician.
Plays violin, vocal and flute. She is educated in the folk music department at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with exchanges at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and the University College of Southeast Norway in Rauland. Her main genre is folk music but she moves in different musical landscapes of folk music, new composition, baroque and free improvisation.

The residency is part of our Music & Circus residency series, made possible with funding from the Danish Arts Foundation. The purpose of the series is to support crossover projects between circus and music.