Classes may or may not have a performance aspect where students participate in a show or showcase.
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A circus approach to aerial arts class will typically focus on building full body strength, super controlled and precise technique, and an understanding of supports required for more advanced moves. Modern circus, including Cirque du Soleil, takes a more theatrical approach where storytelling is entwined with the acrobatics and aerial displays. In traditional circus, aerial artists wowed the crowd with amazing acrobatic moves, breathtaking moments and good, old fashioned derring-do. While there is a lot of crossover between the different approaches, there are some defining characteristics that distinguish them from one another. Some of the more common approaches to aerial are from a circus perspective, a dance perspective, a yoga perspective, a therapeutic perspective, or a hybrid approach.
Some of the most common are Aerial Fabric (commonly called Aerial Silks even though they are not in fact made from silk), Aerial Hoop (also called Lyra or Cerceaux), Trapeze (static, swinging, flying, and dance trapeze), Aerial Rope (also called Corde Lisse), Straps, Loops, Slings, Hammocks, and a variety of other apparatuses of all shapes and sizes.Īerial classes can have a variety of different approaches, depending on the background, interest, and training of the school and instructor. What activities does Aerial cover?Īerial arts refers to physical disciplines involving the use of apparatuses that hang down from a rig point. Now that a variety of aerial arts are becoming popular and many people cross train, aerials can refer to doing aerial arts. So up until recently, if you told someone you did aerials, it would mean something quite different. It wasn’t too long ago that an aerial only referred to a ground-based dance and gymnastics move, similar to a cartwheel but with no hands, and has nothing to do with aerial arts. Everyone wants to be a princess, just don’t get confused by Disney’s mermaid Ariel. There have been a few attempts at formalizing nomenclature, but getting people across the country to follow the same rules is going to be a long slow process.
There aren’t too many standards and you tend to go with the norms of whatever town you’re in. The vocabulary of aerial arts is a little bit like the wild, wild west.
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