Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She began studying ballet at age 11 in her native Colombia before moving to New York City at age ...

Red aerial silks hung to the floor at National Dance Academy in Coralville before Mimi Ke wrapped the silks around her forearms like candy cane stripes. In a swift movement, she twisted her body, ...

There are so many things you can do with a Saturday. For your entertainment, I’m spending mine in a scarlet silk hammock womb. A disembodied voice is telling me to breathe, focus, relax. I can’t see ...

The origins of the art of aerial silks is debated, but it was in the late 1980s when Cirque du Soleil revamped the technique and brought it to the masses. Now, fitness groups in Southwest Florida are ...

Throughout the Camp Terrier/Dance Arts program, one of the highlights of our campers’ week was their Aerial Dance class. Campers would hurry through lunch and line up eagerly at the door, brimming ...

Instructor: Gala Orba, of Boulder, who has been doing aerial silk dancing since 2009. She was trained at the Boulder Circus Center’s AirCat Aerial Arts program, and she has attended the Frequent ...

Carolyn Harper was suspended sideways six feet in the air on a recent Thursday morning, her body held in place by a draped piece of red nylon. With one leg wrapped tightly in the fabric to support her ...

After its launch last semester, AZ Pole and Aerial, the first club of its kind at the University of Arizona, is returning for its first fall semester on campus. Before you envision effortless showroom ...

Have you ever wanted to join the circus? At ten years old, I found myself obsessed with aerial artists, circus clowns and acrobatics. One day, I was hanging out in my dad’s garage and in the corner I ...

When my sons were toddlers, they loved to tumble on mats, flip over parallel bars and balance on beams at our local gymnastics studio. But by the time they went to elementary school, they didn’t know ...