Workshops
Intensify your Knowledge
Workshops are a fantastic way to offer new or unique perspectives to aerial students at any level and any location. These opportunities allow students and professionals alike to hone their craft, explore different pathways, and create connections between their skills and an audience. Contact Jen to schedule workshops at your studio. She is available for travel nationally and internationally. Private and semi-private sessions could be offered as well.
Aerial Dance
Aka Floor2Air. Utilizing an aerial sling (hammock) apparatus, you will integrate classical dance technique with movement specific to suspended elements and learn floor and air sequencing that is fluid and exciting with level changes and use of the floor and air.
- Level: All levels; can be used for fitness based classes
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Aerial Hammock (Sling)
- Requirements: Rigging point 10’ or higher, single point hammock sling with swivel, dance flooring
Aerial Silks
Discover new skills, new pathways and new ways to think about your relationship with aerial silks.
- Level: Must have beg/int aerial experience (invert from the air), basic familiarity with fabric apparatus via silks or hammock
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Silks
- Requirements: Rigging point 14’ and higher, crash mats
Aerial Lyra
Lyra technique and sequencing workshop to explore skills and pathways with the hoop.
- Level: Organizer needs to choose in beg/int, int/adv in advance (beg/int - mostly below and inside hoop, int/adv - includes top bar and span)
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Lyra
- Requirements: Rigging point 10’ or higher, crash mat under each apparatus, need to communicate single or double tab apparatus plus length of round sling connection
Aerial Sling Pathways
Aka Slingwayz, aka Criss Cross Sling Sauce. Break down aerial sling pathways to open up opportunity for shape variations and sequencing creation. The workshop will conclude by learning a choreographed sequence with the challenge added to either deconstruct or add more elements to make the choreography unique for you.
- Level: Must have beg/int aerial experience and basic familiarity with fabric apparatus
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Aerial Hammock (Sling)
- Requirements: Rigging point 12’ and higher, single point hammock sling with swivel, crash mats
Let’s Get Twisted
A Double Sling workshop. Maybe you have one, maybe you don’t. Come explore and play on this fun apparatus. You will use both open and closed fabric positions comparable to hammock skills. Bonus: skills can transfer to aerial chains, spans and straps.
- Level: Must have aerial sling experience
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Double Sling or Dance Straps
- Requirements: Rigging point 12’ or higher, single point double sling or straps, crash mats, need to communicate about rigging set-up
Sling Choreography
Using aerial hammock sling, learn two to three sequences that you can mix and match to combine for a full choreographed performance.
- Level: Must have aerial experience
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Aerial Hammock (Sling)
- Requirements: Rigging point 12’ and higher, single point hammock sling with swivel
Floor2Air Fluidity
Are you confident on your apparatus but have trouble with the floor work? Have entrances and exits lost their excitement? Do you feel like you have two left feet when partnering with your apparatus on the floor? This workshop covers some techniques and “tricks” to make the transitions clean, fluid and more exciting for the audience and the performer.
- Level: Must have aerial experience
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Silks, Lyra, Hammock/Sling, Pole, Lollipop, Custom Apparatus
- Requirements: Rigging point 12’ or higher, pending apparatus
Eye Candy
Aka Posing for Photos. You NEED or WANT great photos to show off your talent. Maybe you are flexible, maybe you aren’t. What works on camera? A little bit of knowledge and practice. Use this workshop before a planned photo shoot so you come prepared and ready to look FIERCE.
- Level: All levels
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Any apparatus or none at all
Performance Prep
Engage your…Audience! All those muscles too 😉
Make your act memorable by including those that are watching in your creative vision. How? Let’s talk, explore, and create.
- Level: All levels
- Time: 1-2 hrs
- Apparatus: Any apparatus or none at all
