Following the journey of a pole instructor, studio owner, and accident prone aerialist!
We are crazy excited to announce that we are opening a second location!!!! Aerial Dance Green Bay is currently under construction. Our GRAND OPENING with be Thursday, September 6th with an Open House. We expect to start running classes in July. LOTS more information will come about our second location in the next few months…
Last night the women of Aerial Dance performed at Bazaar After Dark on Wisconsin Ave. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! We had a number of Aerial Members perform short sequences alongside four Instructors on 3 apparatus. Even cooler, we had dozens of members come out to cheer us on!!!! It was so amazing to see our little…
There was an article and video yesterday showing a 13-year old girl being forced into a stretch by her cheer coach. There was obvious pain and no understanding of the long term damage that was being done by the coach when forcibly assisting in their stretching. The girl will have long term damage from this.…
Since I spent so much of the weekend doing saftey checks, I have saftey on my mind. And I thought some of you may be interested in the redundancy put in place to keep you safe. You see the crash mats and super visible things we use, but do you know that the attachment points…
A large portion of my Sunday morning was spent at the studio changing the attachment points for the hammocks from double point to single point so we could launch our new hammock program. And I have to say, wow is our aerial structure awesome. I knew when I worked with mechanical and structural engineers to…
In the Pole program at Aerial Dance, we use Levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Extreme) to structure our curriculum. Why? Because leveling is the best method to use for learning a new skill. Educational research has proven that grouping people together by similar skills results in the best environment for learning. Benefits of our leveled pole…
It’s started. The “get your summer body” posts. And I just want to SCREAM at these advertisers who are trying to make you feel like crap about your body so they’ll shame you into starting their program and using their product. And how well is that going to work? If you only care about “looking…
In the aerial arts, people hang from the ground and if it goes wrong it can be serious. When you looking at joining a studio, you need to look at the saftey factors they have in place to protect you. What is a saftey factor? The “extra” saftey built into their equipment that goes above and…
The topic of carpal tunnel surgery keeps coming up in my Facebook news feed. Both in my pole and aerial feeds and in my friend groups. I read the comments and think about writing a dissertation on the topic in the comments as I know way more about this than the average bear. (oh, wait…I kinda already…
Have you ever looked in the mirror and had no clue who was looking back at you? Here you are a strong, confident person, but somewhere along your latest journey you lost you. You knew it could happen so damn it you were watching for signs to make sure it didn’t. But here you are…