Mara is interested in using acting and aerialism in nontraditional ways to offer students and audiences occasion to engage in pertinent civic and social issues and to challenge cultural and personal boundaries and limitations. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and has over 20 years in the field of pioneering new forms of creating ensemble based aerial work and original solo performances and is a recipient of commissioning grants from The National Endowment For The Arts, The NY State Counsel For The Arts, The Deutsche Foundation, and Dance Asylum.

Mara trained at The San Francisco School of Circus Arts, Trapeze Arts, Oakland, NECCA and The Toronto Circus School and is a protégé of aerial pioneer, Terry Sendgraff. Neimanis is a graduate of The Dell’Arte International School Of Physical Theatre where she served as an instructor and company member for seven years. In Baltimore, Mara was a Creative Alliance Resident Artist from 2004-2007, where she created solo and ensemble performances and produced The Baltimore Alley Aerial Festival, which combined graffiti and aerial artists in the rich urban landscape of down-town Baltimore.

Neimanis has toured aerial performances and taught residencies internationally in Israel, Latvia, Canada, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom and has written and produced aerial theater performances including, Air Heart, Naomi’s Flight, Points of Grief, Out Of The Blue, Swing.Aerial collaborations include Vacio with Teatro Abya Yala in Costa Rica, Paraffin with Naoko Mashieba, The Snow Queen, at Gallaudet University, Gravity Stories at Stevenson University, For That Which Returns with Arachne Aerial Arts, as well as a variety of work with sculptor Tim Scofield  and director Bryce Butler in alleyways, rooftops and abandoned buildings in Baltimore. Mara is a recent member of The Actors Collective at Cherry Arts Ithaca where she appeared as the flying Baba Yaga and was commissioned to create Round Time in January 2026 .Cultural collaborations include 2003 production, Borders and Borderless, at the Dell’Arte Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake C.A, written and performed with elders and youth of the Yurok Nation. Neimanis served as the key-note performance artist for Dementia Care Matters in Brighton England with her run of Naomi’s Flight for The Old Market Theatre, and has served as a guest artist at the The Studios of Key West, The Tennessee Williams Theatre, UNA University in Hereria Costa Rica, The University of Costa Rica in San Jose, Rhodes College in Memphis, University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of Missouri at Springfield, University of Toronto, Cal Arts, MICA, and For Pixar Studios movie It’s A Bugs Life, and founded and directed The Artpark Institute for Devised Performance in the summer of 2022 at Artpark NY. She is currently a professor of Aerial and Ensemble Physical Theatre at Niagara University where has created ensemble aerial productions, Us & Them based on the May 14 shooting in Buffalo NY set to  Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of The Moon and Re-Envisioning Joan  an aerial version of The Passion of St. Joan, Her choreography has also been seen in Shakespeare in Delaware Park in Buffalo. She is currently working on an aerial version of Waiting For Godot with the 2026 graduates from the Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC.