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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Red aerial silks hung to the floor at National Dance Academy in Coralville before Mimi Ke wrapped the ...

Sarah Burch and Amanda Delapointe share a dream of joining the circus. The two visited Minneapolis earlier this year to find out more about enrolling in circus school. So when the two friends saw an ...

Aerial silk performances are only seen by most people at concerts or theater shows. Nick Erickson, associate professor in the Theater department at LSU, is changing that for the Baton Rouge community.

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 ...

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 ...

You could say Emily Jesse fell for aerial dance as soon as she tried it. “I kind of stumbled into it,” she laughs. “At the end of my first class, I was like, ‘How often can I be in here?’” Eight years ...

“That is where we come from. We have opposable thumbs,” said Hilary McDaniel-Douglas, the artistic director of Project in Motion Aerial Dance Company. “Once we become adults, we really limit where we ...

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 ...