Lee Brasuell, production manager and technical director in the Department of Theatre, and Henry Segerman, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, met years ago during a new faculty orientation. Segerman noticed Brasuell drawing sketches and spoke to him after the meeting.

“Henry mentioned he had been developing concepts for some circus apparatuses and asked if I would look over them,” Brasuell said. “We eventually met to start talking about how to integrate circus performers into them.”