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🎓 Celebrating the Next Level of Excellence!
🤗 Our dedicated teachers are back for more, diving even deeper into their craft in our Level 2 Silks Teacher Training!

These are the folks who as we like to say are the guardians of the industry. They are leveling up and caring for this ever changing and developing practice of aerial aerial arts.

Thanks for your dedication!
@_shayla_cordray
@ascutieshutterbug
@neko_jd
@cirquenukua

And thanks to our teacher @jessicajay
And studio @soraaerialarts

🤸‍♂️ Loving the Elbow Hang! 😅 But let’s be honest, it can be a bit painful.

💪 So many options – single, double... What I find fascinating is how it connects to the Iron Cross in such an intriguing way. The Iron Cross can be a bit of a dead end move, not offering many transitions. It’s a “get in and get out” kind of thing.

🧩 One of my favorite challenges is using a dead-end skill as motivation to create new movement pathways. Can you start with something like the Iron Cross and turn it into an entry or exit for another move? You might have to tweak things a bit, like going from both arms wrapped to just one, as done here.

Adjust and customize it further to match your style and personality.

Are there any dead end skills you know of? Any that you just do usually do anything with?
Drop it here and it will be a bunch of new seeds for everyone to try and play with!

🌟 Getting creative together is the best! Aeri

🌟 Getting creative together is the best!

Aerial art can sometimes feel like a lonely art, just you and your apparatus.

But we absolutely adore the ensemble aspect, and we've got so many fun ways to explore it with our Vertical Theatre Method!

We always include an hour-long sample of it in our teacher trainings. 🎓

✨ In our Greece Retreats we always make sure to integrate it into our classes.

Our first-ever Greece Retreat focused a whole week on the Vertical Theatre Method and act development. We capped off the week with a full-length performance for the community. It was a wicked show! 🔥

📢You can get a taste of this incredible experience when you join us for our Greece Retreat! And guess what? Registration opens this Monday at 9am PST!

🌴 Retreat Details:
Week 1: May 12 – 19, 2024 – Silks & Lyra
Week 2: May 22 – 29, 2024 – Silks & Sling

🔗 Link in the bio for more info. Don't miss out!

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Photo by @nloui
Performers: @aerialani @theflyingbruja @thenattiejean @themichellehewitt @twowheelsinair @isabellabusa

Presented as a part of a @womackandbowmantheloft production

Check out our most recent Level 1 Silks Teacher Tr

Check out our most recent Level 1 Silks Teacher Training graduates!
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We had two in-person trainings happening the same weekend on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

In Linz, Austria Sarah Bebe Holmes was with her group of incredible teachers and practitioners:
Gudrun Zauner
@sigridkostner
@juliacirc
@frau.kopfueber
@Lea.smile7
Sonja Schöner
@gulnarakashkarova
Sophie Worahnik

And in Lexington, Kentucky @Jessicajay was with her group of amazing aerialists:
@akers.jill_
@laurel_gracey
@amyandtherobots
@_cassidy.benavides
@anastasiaanddoodle
@idrawbugs
@_kgmcgee

Well done everyone. It was inspirational working with you all!

🌪️ Working with spinning my shrimp on sling

🌪️ Working with spinning my shrimp on sling

🦐 This body position is commonly referred to as “shrimp” and is a variation of center spin, where you find center by creating an accordion type position by bending at the hips and knees (& sometimes shoulders, depending).

👣 We would also consider it a “foot isolation spin” because if you get your toes in the right spot, there’s a neat illusion that happens where your foot stays in a fixed point while your body spins around it.

We go over these positions (and more!) in the Spin Theory section of our Level 2 Teacher Training if you are in the Bar Apparatus track (Trapeze or Lyra).

We don’t currently have a Sling Teacher Training (it’s on our to do list, for offerings in the future) but we absolutly LOVE using sling as a tool for playing with spin.

It is easy to get thrown out of center, and takes a lot of practice and control. Have you tried this spin variation?

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✨Upcoming Teacher Trainings✨

Level 2 Silks, Trapeze or Lyra
Nov 4 - Dec 2, 2023
Catch the early bird rate ($100 off!) - Register by September 10th

🌺 Upcoming Retreats 🌺

🏝️ Panama Aerial + Sail Retreat
Sept / Oct 2023 - 2 spots available!

🌶Aerial Escapades in Puerto Escondido, Mexico
@sweetretreatsmx - Nov 26-Dec 3, 2023
3 spots available

🇬🇷 Aerial Retreats in Greece
Week 1: May 12 – 19, 2024 – Silks & Lyra
Week 2: May 22 – 29, 2024 – Silks & Sling
Registration opens September 11th, 2023

💻 E-Courses available 💻
Belay for Days (Silks) & Momentum Essentials (Silks / Rope)

🦋Links in the bio🦋

❌Crossing and uncrossing our uneven chain loops

❌Crossing and uncrossing our uneven chain loops

Paper Doll Militia has been working with Aerial Chains since 2008. We love how versatile it is, you can transform the rigging orientation in endless variations, by adjusting what chain link you clip into.

We’ve performed with a single chain strand (like a rope), double chain strands (like silks), a single strand hammock, double loops, and uneven double loops.

⛓️What’s your favorite chain orientation? (from an audience or aerialist perspective) #aerialchains #aerialchain

Performance from “Unchained”
Performers Rain Anya & Sarah Bebe Holmes
🎥By @rarebirdmedia
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🌀Interested in creating your own unique sequences on any aerial apparatus?

Check out our Freebie ‘Your Essential Guide to Creating Innovative Aerial Sequences’
Link in bio🔗

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