rope
Improver Rope Technique 
/ with Lily Rubin-Miller (2025)
Welcome to the wonderful world of rope! This class is perfect for those who are newer to rope and want to build a strong foundation while refining their technique. You’ll learn how to apply this knowledge to create fluid sequences and dynamic movement in your rope practice.
The class will begin with a warm-up to prepare your body, followed by an exploration of foundational dynamic techniques, including bell, pike turn, and straddle beats. We’ll then move into learning skills, whether it’s a pose or a drop, and conclude by connecting everything together in a smooth, flowing sequence that emphasizes momentum and dynamic transitions.
This class is designed to help you build confidence, improve your technique, and unleash the creative potential of your rope practice!
Prerequisites: Catchers, S-wrap, wheeldowns (these can all be on fabric or rope and don’t need to be pretty!!), 15 second dead hang from 2 hands on either fabric or rope.
Skilled Rope Technique
/ with Kate Dunne (2025)
Exploring Choreography, Flow & Creativity
This workshop is designed for experienced aerialists looking to expand their creative movement and deepen their understanding of aerial rope pathways. Kate’s approach to choreography blends structured and unstructured improvisation, challenging students to explore fluid transitions, shifting directions, and dynamic sequences.
Participants will be guided through brain-teasing choreography that encourages personal adaptation and creative expression. Expect a focus on flowy pathways, innovative applications of technical skills, and smooth integration of elements such as simple rolls, side planche, and back balances.
Pre-requisites:
– Basic dynamic technique
– Basic rolling technique
– Comfortable with back balance and weight shifts
– Good stamina for sustained aerial work
Join Kate for an inspiring session where technique meets artistry, and explore new ways to trust and interact with the rope!
Advanced Rope Technique
/ with Danilo Pacheco (2025)
The classes aims to refine basic movements, explore swings, introduce dynamics, and teach elements from Danilo’s personal silks/rope vocabulary. The goal is to provide students with exercises that develop body awareness and prepare them to execute dynamic movements such as inlock, twist, and others, utilizing the rope’s flexibility to enhance technique.
The second focus of the classes are also dedicated to exploring different movement qualities, new pathways, and rhythms. The objective is to stimulate participants’ creativity through exercises that encourage the creation of original sequences and installations. The proposal is to bring a choreographic perspective from the world of dance into circus arts, enriching movements and breaking away from traditional clichés of climbs, tricks, and predictable combinations in aerial performances. This approach seeks to move toward a broader and more innovative perspective, redefining what an aerial act can be.
A mix of technical and artistic tools will be shared with the students
Advanced Rope Technique
/ with Yiaki (2025)
In this lesson, following a proper warm up and body activation on the apparatus, we will begin with some basic positions and conditioning exercises. Then, we will use beats to approach these positions and taking advantage of the momentum, we will try to create “dynamic combos” on the rope. Furthermore, we will analyze the rolling up technique, static and dynamic.
Attendees should comfortably execute multiple inversions in the air and have a previous experience with the dynamic technique.
Progressions for different movements will be shown, and everyone can go as far as they feel comfortable!
Group Rope
/ with Sara Granda (2025)
Group Rope is where the madness of all you rope peeps joins with the madness that happens in Sara’s brain and through a creative process over the 2 weeks we will all create a piece and it will be performed in the showcase on Saturday 26th of July as part of Emma Insley Night.
Sara will not be teaching repertoire or tricks, this is more about combining your skills up in the air (and down on the ground if you have it of course!) through a lot of creative tasks, different ideas… This is basically like a goody bag, you never know what you are gonna get !
This is your opportunity to collaborate with other amazing group artists and to be a badass on the stage!
Requirements
Strong rope vocabulary, aerial inverts, and stamina of at least 5 mins in the air.
Note: This is not a technique class, you must do both weeks.