Refresh your silks vocabulary and technique in this 1-hour workshop that explores a new climb, drop and a spin.
Prerequisites: 1 Straddle up in the air, Hip Key in the air. Open to ages 12+.
About the Guest instructor:
Elise Southwick is an award-winning circus artist and champion aerialist at the Las Vegas International Variety Act Festival. She has performed internationally on Aerial Silks, Strap Loops, and Hand Balancing. Her performances include Cirque Dreams Holidaze by Cirque du Soleil, the Broadway Play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” AIDA Cruise Lines, The Santa Fe Opera and The Ringling Museum. She received her performance and teacher training at The New England Center for Circus Arts in the Professional Track Program (class of 2015).
Class Make Policy
We require a minimum of 4 people enrolled to proceed with this class. If you have registered, and we have to cancel because this threshold is not met, you will be contacted and receive a full refund.
Whether you’re pursuing straps as your main discipline or a new or seasoned aerialist in other disciplines, straps conditioning is a key part of aerial strength training. In this 1 hour workshop, we will go over all the basic positions including straddles, pikes, meathooks, skin the cats, and flags. Additionally, we will cover spinning technique and basic sequencing.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. Open to ages 12+.
About the Guest instructor:
Elise Southwick is an award-winning circus artist and champion aerialist at the Las Vegas International Variety Act Festival. She has performed internationally on Aerial Silks, Strap Loops, and Hand Balancing. Her performances include Cirque Dreams Holidaze by Cirque du Soleil, the Broadway Play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” AIDA Cruise Lines, The Santa Fe Opera and The Ringling Museum. She received her performance and teacher training at The New England Center for Circus Arts in the Professional Track Program (class of 2015).
Class Make Policy
We require a minimum of 4 people enrolled to proceed with this class. If you have registered, and we have to cancel because this threshold is not met, you will be contacted and receive a full refund.
Handstands for all! This workshop is for beginners all the way up to 1-arm balancers. We will learn techniques to build a solid handstand foundation as well as explore different handstand shapes and entries to handstands.
No prerequisites. Open to ages 12 +.
About the Guest Instructor:
Elise Southwick is an award-winning circus artist and champion aerialist at the Las Vegas International Variety Act Festival. She has performed internationally on Aerial Silks, Strap Loops, and Hand Balancing. Her performances include Cirque Dreams Holidaze by Cirque du Soleil, the Broadway Play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” AIDA Cruise Lines, The Santa Fe Opera and The Ringling Museum. She received her performance and teacher training at The New England Center for Circus Arts in the Professional Track Program (class of 2015).
Class Make Policy
We require a minimum of 4 students enrolled in order to proceed with this class. If we do not meet the necessary threshold, you will be contacted and given a full refund,