Salieri Circus Award | Show Direction

Show Director

Elena Grossule

Elena Grossule

Artistic Director of CircArtis, a Circus Production Center based in Legnago, Verona. Within the circus field, she has gained solid experience performing as an acrobat and dancer with Darix Togni’s Florilegio Circus and teaching dance for 15 years at the Circus Arts Academy of Verona.

She directed and choreographed the shows of the Danish National Circus Dannebrog (2011 and 2012) and collaborated with Antonio Giarola as assistant director and choreographer in various international productions across Europe and Asia.


For Giarola, she created the choreography for *White* (2014–2016), a Circus-Theatre production in which she also performed as a soloist. She was the first Italian, in the history of Russian circus arts, to sign the choreography of the shows “Carnevale” (2015) and “Fantastica” (2020) at the Nikulin Moscow Circus. Her most recent work is “Fascination” in France, directed by Mario Luraschi.