Location: Trapeze area | 8 Brookley Road, Boston, MA, 02130

Description:

This workshop gives students an in depth understanding of the 4 foundational wraps of vertical theory using several different sequencing examples.   Students should be ready to work with several sequences to understand in new ways how they connect together.

We will begin with single pole sequencing.  Students will learn how to use the foundational wraps to create new sequences, dynamic nuances, and learn to ‘choose your own adventure” in sequencing.  

Then we will add split pole variations, adding new skills and variations by moving the single pole tricks between the 2 ‘poles’ of the aerial fabric as well as sneaky ways to use wrap theory to change from one ‘side’ to the other.   

 

Kerri Kresinski, founder, director, and head coach at Sweet Retreats Mexico, is an aerialist, dancer, choreographer, and coach. She has been performing and teaching acrobatics, dance, and aerial arts for over 25 years. Her life’s work, as an artist and teacher, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually.   She is truly a unique performer, coach and mentor and her students’ biggest cheerleader.

Kerri has always been the most passionate about movement.  She has dedicated her life (since age 3) to studying movement arts including dance, theater, acting, music, circus acrobatics, flexibility, fitness science, personal training, and of course aerial arts.  She has studied extensively and now teaches functional movement, aerial skills, acrobatics, dance, flexibility, and creative development as well as functional anatomy for aerialists and movers, and is passionate about helping people understand how their bodies work. She has also studied holistic health, herbalism, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, massage, and nutrition. Her professional career as a multi-disciplinary performer has brought her to shows and festivals all over the world.

Kerri teaches her students how to own their practice going beyond teaching skills and sequences. Through encouraging a strong and committed movement Practice, she teaches how to identify, alter, link, and create skills and sequences, and how to fully embody the movement of each skill in a satisfying way.  Kerri’s technical expertise comes from working with students of all kinds to figure out the best training for each individual.   

Read more about Kerri here.  You can find Kerri’s performance videos here and Circus Fit free online tutorial videos here.  Find Kerri on Instagram @SweetCircusKerri.

 

Available: 7/8

Price: $120.00 Taxes waived

Required age: 16+ on the day of the activity

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: This workshop is for vertical aerial students and teachers at the 301 and above level.  Students should be able to execute the following skills:  hip key, leg lock (aka thigh hitch or tourniquet), and have some experience with basic saltos and wheeldowns.  Students should have the ability to climb easily, invert in the air, and have endurance to do multiple skills in a row

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