Our Team

BILL MULHOLLAND
(CO-FOUNDER)

Specializations
Acrobatic Movement
Gymnastic Strength & Agility
Flying Dance

Billy was a National Team Gymnast turned dancer/actor/circus and acrobatic character. He trained as a gymnast at the Olympic Training Center and became a member of the US National Team, an All- American and team captain at the University of Nebraska, where he studied advertising, marketing and dabbled in theater & dance. Billy and Gwyn met and performed in the early days of De La Guarda and also with Fuerza Bruta, Cirque du Soleil, Pilobolus, the Met Opera in multiple productions with Robert Lepage as well as in film and TV as stunt performers. They are also the co-creators and co-directors of Breaking Surface, a flying, dance-theater production that fuses acting, dancing, and acrobatics over a darkly flooded stage.

GWYNETH LARSEN
(CO-FOUNDER)

Specializations
Flying Dance
Float Fitness: Aerial Core

Gwyn was a contemporary dancer and aerialist turned actor/stunt woman. Both Gwyn and Billy were founding members of AiRealistic where they choreographed, rigged, designed and created full scale aerial work for many directors including; Julie Taymor (Midsummer Night's Dream at TFANA), Keith Warner (Andre Chenier at Bregenz Opera) and for many corporate clients. They founded 5th Wall Studio to return to their original intention of creating genre blurring live performances and to teach flying movement that cracks open the heart.

REBECCA MAGAZINE

Specializations
Flying Dance
Float Fitness: Aerial Core

Rebecca received her BFA in Dance at The Ohio State University. She trained with Hubbard Street Dance Company and performed in Italy with Pro Danza Italia. Some credits include: Aerial Captain for Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles at the Metropolitan Opera, Aerialist at the LA Opera, NBC’s “I Can Do That”, Off Broadway’s Rock and Roll Debauchery. Regional credits include: Spamalot, Legally Blonde, and West Side Story. Rebecca recently performed with 5th Wall Studio’s production of Breaking Surface. For more about Rebecca, please visit www.rebeccamagazine.com.

FABIO ANGELO

Specializations
Flying Dance
Rigging

Fabio was born and raised in Rosario, Argentina where he began his dance training in Argentine Folk at the age of 5. Shortly after that, he joined the renowned Ballet Latinoamericano in Rosario where he dance for 11 years. He later joined the internationally acclaimed Circus Orlando Orfei as a dancer, and advanced his aerial arts training in silks and trapeze. Recent credits include: Evita (NY City Center), Breaking Surface (5th Wall Studio), Saturday Night Fever (Broadway), and in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upcoming movie adaptation of In the Heights.

OLGA KARMANSKY

Specialization
Flexibility/Contortion

A US Champion and two-time Pan American Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics. Official Olympic Alternate Athens, Greece. She is an acrobat and flexibility/contortion instructor, teaching in NYC and worldwide. Olga began to form her advanced but egalitarian training philosophy while living and training with the Russian Olympic team and believes her students will achieve extreme results regardless of age, previous injury or level of experience.

She's always happy to work with you privately by appointment. In order to help sculpt a great experience for you, please send a description or photos of where you are at in your skills to O.Karmansky@gmail.com.