Eliana Pliskin Jacobs is a Yiddish singer and composer, circus performer, visual and conceptual artist, and performance artist. She is a classically trained mezzo-soprano and vocal composer with a background in Baroque and Yiddish vocal music, and has studied with many of the most internationally renowned contemporary Yiddish singers*. A circus performer, Eliana began her circus training as a child and has been performing as a professional aerialist (trapeze and aerial ring) in Canada, the US, and throughout Europe since 2012. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous and Western art history and fine arts (printmaking)
from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Fine Arts from HEAD-Geneva, and has been a guest artist at various residencies in Germany and Finland.
As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors from Germany and Yiddishland, Eliana's artistic research explores contemporary Holocaust memorial culture in Germany as well as Yiddish music, culture and history. She has developed numerous multidisciplinary projects and productions, including the brand new Yiddish-Klezmer circus production "The Flying Balagan" (2023), which she produced in collaboration with the renowned klezmer band Dobranotch.