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aerial arts and more…
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Aerial arts are awesome to watch let alone try! 🙂
I've been poling for 8 months now and I have my first Aerial (a combo of silks/lyra and rope) class tonight. YAY! So stoked to give it a try!
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Circus arts are amazing and they work different muscles than the pole so it really strengthens your body all around. Check out the aerial equipment and information here:
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I pole, & hoop here & there. Hoping to get into lyra & silks soon. I’m lucky there are several places in Los Angeles that offer all sorts of aerial arts. Just need to find the time and $$$ to do it all.
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I've kind of moved away from pole (mostly because of no place to put it) to stay with silk. I started at a school in Tucson a couple of years ago, and have been working at it off and on ever since. I've been slacking some lately, but I'm working back into it.
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I found circus arts first, through the Burning Man festival community, which is a mecca for that. For a year after that I went to a drop-in silks practice and just learned by watching others (some of who were aerials teachers). This place only cost $10 for three hours. I also picked up lyra while I was there. During this time, I took up pole to help me build strength. Of course, I fell in love with pole and it became my main focus. Sadly, just recently that open practice space closed, and my only option now is to take silks and lyra lessons for nearly $30/hr. I'm doing that now, but I really can't afford to continue it. Long story short, my dream now is to go to a year long program at a real circus school and train in Chinese pole, silks, and lyra. If I'm going to spend all that money, I might as well do it the right way and get properly trained. Afterwards, I would teach. It all depends on whether I can raise the money, though.
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@elektro: I have been contempleting to go to China too, I got a yes form the international school of Pekin, did you try to get into it?
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I did about a year of Lyra and I loved it. I did it with my sister to combat my fear of heights. I tried this first and then discovered that a few of the girls who were in my Lyra class also did pole. Pole was something I always wanted to try so I gave that a go and now I am hooked. Lyra is fantastic and very different from pole. I found that in the class that I took we learnt at a much quicker pace than in pole which was a really slow build up to inverting. I guess because in Lyra you have huge crash mats underneath you where in pole there is just the hard floor to catch you !
I wish I could afford to do both but I cant so I am sticking with pole for the time being. Oh I have also been spinning fire poi for about 8 years now and perform at childrens parties and some events here and there.
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@ahlemh – I was thinking of going to the New England Center for Circus Arts in Vermont. I had not even considered going to China- what a wild and wonderful idea! I think you should go!
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I started doing aerial silks about 9 months ago. I had been poling for about 3 years at that time. If I hadn't been doing poling for so long and had the core and upper body strength I would not of progressed so quickly. So much of what I do on pole translates nicely onto the silks. I find I get tired out on the silks quicker than on pole but find learning new advanced pole tricks much more difficult than learning something new on the silks.
My instructor also recommended the New England Center for Circus Arts to me but I haven't had the time or money to do it.
I did purchase a rig for my backyard and when its not so hot outside I practice on it.
I still love pole more than silks though. I did try lyra but didn't like it.
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I started doing silks (and some corde lisse) in 2006, when a music project I was involved with was sharing a space with a circus school. I witnessed one of their classes during my rehearsal and was totally transfixed. So I’ve done silks on and off since then. I tend to be biceps-strong, which is good for silks because you’re always holding on! Pole is my primary apparatus by far, though.
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Well, I belly danced through highschool and performed with my college's troupe. Around the same time (in college), I picked up hooping– I was too indecisive and thrifty to buy just one (haha!) so I bought a roll of tubing and made several of my own. Having the use of so many different sizes (and a lot of dance space) helped me learn very quickly and it became part of my daily routine for a few years. When I started grad school in Arizona, I had stopped hooping for the most part, but realized that my other form of cardio (running) was pretty difficult for me because of the dry air. One day I found a pole studio and decided to give it a go– and I haven't looked back since! I'm actually looking into silks classes in Tucson, too, at the moment. 🙂
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I was going to pole class for a year and a half when I moved to doing almost entirely aerial dance after the prompting of one of the upper level girls at pole. I wish I could take regular pole lessons, but my schedule no longer jived with the pole teachers I liked. I really love my aerial studio though… I currently take lessons in tissu, static trap and lyra (in fact the wonderful corbyOconnor is one of my trap teachers https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif) I still do pole by myself at home and try to self teach coz I still really like it. Home schooling has been challenging and I still wish I had access to quality studio lessons. At first I thought aerial dance and pole were very similar, but the longer I do both, the more I realize they're different. While aerials have made it easier for me to do things on the pole that involve "pull" muscles or a lot of abs (like aerial inverts/inverted V's or aerial shoulder mounts), things that involve "push" muscles are a bit more of a challenge. I guess I don't get to use my tiny "push" muscles as regularly in aerials. My handstands have begun to get shaky and I lost my caterpillar and have to relearn it… it used to be easy for me when I was taking pole regularly! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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I am originally from Tucson and I started at Tucson Circus Arts. http://tucsoncircusarts.com/
There is instruction for poi and stilts and other arts available too.
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I too have wanted to learn other things like silks, hoops or fire but live in georgia and can’t seem to find any lessons for anything besides pole here does anyone know of some place i live in locust grove about 1hr from atlanta henry county
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@gummypia I noticed the same thing about push-pull with silks and pole! I had to work extra hard to train my shoulders because my silks work never really used them. Trapeze folk don’t have that problem so much, and they usually have nicer shoulders too. 🙂
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