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Side Effects of Learning Aerial Arts

If you’re thinking of taking up the aerial arts, I must caution you. You will experience side-effects, and I feel that you should know them before you get started! Pride in Pain: Once you fall in love with these arts, you will learn a new meaning of pain....

Christmas Show Memories

My favorite part of the holiday season isn’t Christmas, it’s the Aerial Dance Christmas Show. Don’t freak out–I do like Christmas. I only really see my family twice a year, and Christmas is one of those times. I most certainly look forward to...

Falling on Purpose

I was watching my classmates during my hoop class, and a couple of them were dismounting in really fast Choppers. It took me a minute to realize they were purposely FALLING out of the hoop and into a Chopper in order to exit! The rest of us, who didn’t know this...

Nemesis Moves

“We all have nemesis moves.” Truer words have never been spoken. A “nemesis move,” as I define it, is a move that somehow evades you, even after multiple attempts. As was said, we all have them! I am not proud of this, but I can make quite the...

Moving Up—Am I Ready?

  This term is coming to a close, and the Aerial Dance instructors are talking with students about moving up to the next level in the next term. There are some students who are just itching to move higher and are thrilled to hear their instructor offer it to...

Spread Your Fabric Wings and Fly!

I took my first Fabric Foundation class Wednesday night. I thought that an activity with “Fabric” in the name would lend itself to a softer sort of aerial art. This is not the case. I would venture to say this is the most challenging, but the most fun,...