You could say Emily Jesse fell for aerial dance as soon as she tried it. “I kind of stumbled into it,” she laughs. “At the end of my first class, I was like, ‘How often can I be in here?’” Eight years ...

Have you ever wanted to join the circus? At ten years old, I found myself obsessed with aerial artists, circus clowns and acrobatics. One day, I was hanging out in my dad’s garage and in the corner I ...

From the ceiling, giant red curtain-like silks hang from a simple pulley system connected to the walls. Five hoops, or lyras, are hung on the wall behind them. On the floor are various mats that Kim ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Red aerial silks hung to the floor at National Dance Academy in Coralville before Mimi Ke wrapped the ...

After its launch last semester, AZ Pole and Aerial, the first club of its kind at the University of Arizona, is returning for its first fall semester on campus. Before you envision effortless showroom ...

Jennifer Hebert frequently hits the gym. She lifts weights. She runs marathons. But lately, the Toronto resident has been mixing up her routine with something entirely different: exercises befitting ...

“That is where we come from. We have opposable thumbs,” said Hilary McDaniel-Douglas, the artistic director of Project in Motion Aerial Dance Company. “Once we become adults, we really limit where we ...

The origins of the art of aerial silks is debated, but it was in the late 1980s when Cirque du Soleil revamped the technique and brought it to the masses. Now, fitness groups in Southwest Florida are ...

Fly-by-Night Dance Theater has announced their 9th NYC Aerial Dance Festival. The performances will feature Aerial Dancers on a variety of apparatus including: harness, trapeze, rope, canes, lyra, ...