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Trapeze Exploration with Sarah Bebe Holmes * * Tod

Trapeze Exploration with Sarah Bebe Holmes
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Today's creative task was to play with movements UNDER THE BAR only. And of possible to make contact with the bar only with hands, while moving through sequencing. I particularly got inspired by also staying in a little ball and so attempted to keep this shape as throughout the sequence as well.
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Try and share with us!
FYI – it's brutal on your hands!! Yikes.
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Song: Learning by Perfume Genius
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✨Upcoming REMOTE Teacher Trainings✨
Level 1 Silks, Rope Trapeze or Lyra
Registration Open!
Course Start Date October 30th, 2021
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✨E-Courses available ✨
Belay for Days Theory based self-directed course
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Aerial Retreats⛵
• Catalina Aerial + Sail Retreat - Oct 10 - 16, 2021 – one space now open!

Rain Anya on Rope
📸Photo by @dave_b_photo
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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For beats, the downwards drive is as important as the upward force. Life is sometimes funny like that. When you want to go one one you actually need to put effort the other way.
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✨Upcoming REMOTE Teacher Trainings✨
Level 1 Silks, Rope Trapeze or Lyra
Registration Open!
Course Start Date October 30th, 2021
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✨E-Courses available ✨
Belay for Days Theory based self-directed course
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⛵Aerial Retreats ⛵
• Catalina Aerial + Sail Retreat - Oct 10 - 16, 2021 – ONE SPACE JUST OPENED!
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SWIPE FOR SNEAK PEAK OF OUR TEACHER TRAINING TUTOR

SWIPE FOR SNEAK PEAK OF OUR TEACHER TRAINING TUTORIALS – Silks
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Grip Study
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Theory is always important to us at Paper Doll Militia. We like to emphasize that learning is not memorizing steps, but understanding how and why the movements and wraps work. Here is a breakdown of the three most common grips we use in Level 1 Silks and Rope. How they relate to one another is pivotal to our comprehension of them.
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This is a short excerpt from our Level 1 Silks Teacher Training Course. However, this theory applies to any vertical apparatus or the ropes on a trapeze. We got this lovely theory floorial sequence originally from our dear friend and colleague Constance Echo Palmer @CircusEcho. We hope you find this theory breakdown helpful! Comment below with any observations or discoveries!
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✨Upcoming REMOTE Teacher Trainings✨
Level 1 Silks, Rope, Lyra, or Trapeze Registration NOW OPEN
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✨E-Courses available ✨
Belay for Days Theory based self-directed course
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⛵️Aerial Retreats⛵
Catalina Aerial + Sail Retreat - Oct 10 - 16, 2021 – WAITLIST ONLY
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🎭Feeling Extra dramatic today jammin' out to th

🎭Feeling Extra dramatic today jammin' out to this tear jerking ballad. (Sound On) Lady Gaga sure knows how to tug at my heart strings. (Anyone else bawling at the end of this movie?)
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Lady Gaga can inspire me with her soulful pipes, but a whole slew of talented movement artists inspired this sequence.
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The entry wrap is an adaptation of @borntoflycurriculum's "knee lock" that @lenalani and I were playing with a few years back. We call it the "no knee lock" (same wrap...just skip the knee lock part of it)
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The roll through to back balance was taught to me by @VaultAmyEll in a skill share gathering in Houston
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The ending was my own little musing, inspired by the drama of the song.
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✨Upcoming REMOTE Teacher Trainings✨
Level 1 Silks, Rope, Lyra or Trapeze - Oct / Nov 2021
📝Registration is now OPEN!
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Belay for Days Theory based self-directed course
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🏝Aerial Retreats⛵
Catalina Aerial + Sail Retreat - Oct 10 - 16, 2021 – WAITLIST ONLY

A Wire Apart * * Here is the last of the A Wire Ap

A Wire Apart
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Here is the last of the A Wire Apart snippets we are sharing this month. 24 hours left to see the show on the Fringe. Link Below.
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This moment comes towards the end of the show, where the two performers each leave their cable covered side of the stage and wobble their way towards one another. It begs to ask, how much risk are we willing to take, to cross the void in order to connect? In a time of great division, can we reach another still? We think so. If we are willing enough to quiet the noise without, to stop the ding dong pulse and see one another in the eyes again.
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Link for Tickets to the Show
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/wire-apart?fbclid=IwAR20e4Asb59LY3cxaztlcGGelMx_Y8b_vObdhmgFRQxYeD_Xa_7WyN1a6TE
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✨Upcoming REMOTE Teacher Trainings✨
Level 1 Silks, Rope, Lyra or Trapeze - Oct / Nov 2021
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✨E-Courses available ✨
Belay for Days Theory based self-directed course
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🏝Aerial Retreats⛵
Catalina Aerial + Sail Retreat - Oct 10 - 16, 2021 – WAIT LIST ONLY
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