Atlas Circus Company challenges the current framework of circus by placing an emphasis on meaningful narrative. The company’s artistic mission is to create works that will appeal to people of all ages by utilizing a unique combination of dance, theater, and circus arts as an artistic medium that audiences can connect to on a social, political and personal level. The company strives to be a leader in American circus and to facilitate the next generation of American circus artists. The goal is to bring circus arts to mainstream America and educate the community to the boundless possibilities that circus arts can provide.

Noah Dach is a dance and circus choreographer, close-up magician, teacher, writer, and director originally from Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelor of the Arts from Muhlenberg College where he majored in Dance and minored in Business. While at school he and Henry Evans founded the college’s first Performance and Curricular Circus Program. Noah has trained as a circus artist at Circus Warehouse, Hollywood Aerial Arts, The Brooklyn Zoo, and NECCA and is versed in aerial fabrics, straps, hoop, hammock, loops as well as Chinese pole, acrobatics, tumbling/trampoline, juggling and clowning.

Henry Evans is a recent graduate of Muhlenberg College with a degree in business with entrepreneurial studies and theater. He also studied at Steps on Broadway, Circus Warehouse, Brooklyn Zoo, Stagedoor Manor, and was a competitive Chelsea Piers gymnast. His recent roles in theater include Mark in A Chorus Line and Arlecchino in A Servant of Two Masters at Muhlenberg. His dance experience includes Master Choreographers at Muhlenberg and as a featured dancer in Pascal RIOULT Dance Company. His business experience includes internships with the Drama League, Wicked, Fringe festival, and E.T.C. Custom Events. For fun he likes to take long walks on the beach and visit his grandma.

Tommy McCarthy graduated Cum Laude from Muhlenberg College with a Bachelors of Art in Dance and a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry. He has 14 years of dance training in ballet, tap, modern, jazz, Irish, and contemporary, and has trained with Boston Ballet and Joffrey Ballet. His performance credits include regional theater productions of Greg in A Chorus Line, Tulsa in Gypsy, as well as re-stagings of Karole Armitage’s Ligeti Essays and Bill T. Jones’ D-man in the Waters. He has 7 years of teaching experience in a variety of disciplines such as ballet, tap, creative movement, boys class, theater, and circus arts.