Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She began studying ballet at age 11 in her native Colombia before moving to New York City at age ...

Aerial silks has become popular thanks to Cirque du Soleil and aerial silk acrobatics who perform in circuses. A form of dance, aerial silks can also be a form of fitness. In Jones’ class, students ...

You might not know the name, but chances are you’ve seen it. Think Cirque de Soleil—graceful women (and some men) twirling high in the air, suspended by long strips of silk. That’s aerial dance, a ...

ONE month after Maricruz Hidalgo began hoisting herself up the two silk strands hanging from a steel rafter in an empty room behind the Budapest Café in San José, she now wraps her limbs in the cloths ...

A simple fly through the air is rather quaint these days. Now it's about dropping from it — at great speeds, from great heights, cart wheeling toward the floor with cloth the sole security, or ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — In the monochromatic, warehouse gym setting of west Little Rock’s Absolute Athlete - surrounded by black mats, dark dumbbells and gunmetal weight plates - the 30-foot-long, floor ...

Dance in all its forms and genres is engendering. The skill and passion that goes into crafting this art is one that takes dedication. Aerial dance is slowly becoming a new phenomenon in South Africa.

It’s common for dance companies to collaborate. What’s fantastically uncommon is for two companies to train together so methodically for six months that discerning which dancers originated with which ...

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 ...

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