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Improver Fabric Technique 
/ with Lily Rubin-Miller (2024)
For silks students with some experience under their belt, this weeklong workshop will help you develop your aerial skills and take your practice to the next level. We will focus on technical skills, drills, theory, and technique, then string everything together with some creative sequencing. You will walk away with new moves and sequences, a deeper understanding of wrap theory, and a grasp of key technique concepts that will inform the rest of your aerial practice moving forward.
Prerequisites: Can hipkey in the air and climb to the top of a 20 ft silk 2x in a row (climb of your choice)
Improver Fabric Technique
/ with April Bliss (2024)
Fabrics with April Bliss is a fun combination of sequences, drops, and spinning figures and shapes. We will also build a foundation of conditioning drills that you can take to your daily practice to help you develop the strength you need in order to advance as an aerial dancer! We will aim to combine all the skills we learn in the week into a sequence that we will then use to play with different themes and moods to explore movement quality and create our own fabric routine.
Skilled Fabric Technique
/ with Kate Dunne (2024)
Kate will lead you through clever and creative sequences to help push your fundamental knowledge of silk repertoire. You will indulge in new pathways and technical wraps and even develop new shapes whilst handling these silky fabrics.
Pre-requisites: Good understanding of fabric pathways and tension. A comfortable helicopter roll down and long arm inversions.
Advanced Fabric Technique
/ with Kate Dunne (2024)
Kate will lead you through clever and creative sequences to help push your fundamental knowledge of silk repertoire. You will indulge in new pathways and technical wraps and even develop new shapes whilst handling these silky fabrics.
Pre-requisites: Good understanding of fabric pathways and tension. Back planche and roll up pathways (not necessary to have perfect execution of these skills)
Chains
/ with Alec Stoddard (2024)
Participants should be comfortable inverting and pulling up repeatedly, as well as have some spin tolerance already developed. This is not because the course is that demanding, but rather, the chains themselves can be! Knowing your baseline aerial conditioning is solid will help you focus on new chain-specific sensations!
This course will allow students to indulge in the luxury of more consecutive time on chains to build their knowledge of and tolerance to the bruise noodles! Concepts will start low and slow, moving focus throughout the week from body part to body part while progressively building grip conditioning.
We’ll explore:
-Multiple types of spins and how to tame wobbles on the heavy beasties
-Standing and balance skills
-Working with higher height: drops! and under the chains choreography
-Adding more sensitive body parts safely: wrists, elbows, and neck
-Student-directed choreography exploration
-Ongoing desensitization care like chain-proofing clothing, bruise tending, and nervous system hygiene
Suggested equipment:
-Layers for hips, thighs, ankles, shins, elbows
-Trapeze boots or gaiters if you own some!
-Plain rock rosin
-Ginger candies or Sea Bands for dizziness
-Arnica gel for bruising!