Wednesday, Jul 30, 2025 at 9:00am
27th Annual International Aerial Dance Festival
Two weeks of 3-Hour Immersions, 90-Minute Classes, Workshops, Performances, Networking with aerialists from across the country, and more. Join us in beautiful Boulder, CO, for one week or two!
Schedule of Events:
Week A:
Week A Immersions: Meet everyday from 9 am - noon, Monday-Friday.
Tethered Dancing: Rope & Harness (All Levels) with Valerie Morris / Dairy
Circus as a Verb Curiosity as a Medium (All Levels) with Issac Endo / FFP2
Lyra: Dive into Sequencing & Dynamics Technique (Int/Adv) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP1
Week A 90-Minute Classes: Meet everyday Monday-Friday.
1:00 - 2:30 PM:
Split Fabric Drops & Theory (Intermediate & Above) with Anastasia Timina / FFP2
Flip It! A Horizontal Apparatus Exploration (Adv Beginner & Above) with Ariana Papousek / FFP1
Act Creation Toolkit (Intermediate/Advanced) with Summer Lacy / Dairy
3:00 - 4:30 PM:
Dance Trapeze: Connectivity & Flow (Intermediate & Above) with Summer Lacy / Dairy
Dynamic Sling Theory & Skills (Intermediate) with Anastasia Timina / FFP1
Everything Peg Stilts (All Levels) with Valerie Morris & Danielle Hendricks / FFP2
5:30 - 7:00 PM:
Aerial Straps: Spins & Shapes (Intermediate) with Cosmo Dudley / FFP2
Rope: The Dynamics & Art of Letting Go (Intermediate/Advanced) with Sarah Dawn / FFP1
Week A Meet-Up - Free
Week A Workshop: $20
7:45 - 9:15 PM: “Build It Together: Co-Creating Aerial Learning Environments” with Jackie Beth Shilcutt
Want to build class environments designed for the learners present that inspire growth while attending to safety? This Activist Approach workshop is designed to walk participants through building a foundation with aerial students to help co-create learning environments that attend to physical and emotional safety. By inquiring with students about their perspectives, teachers and learners can help co-design educational settings that connect with students’ interests, motivations, and learning needs. This information can help the group discover what could help their learning processes, as well as identify and negotiate barriers to their activity enjoyment and engagement. Workshop participants will experience ways to build a foundation for aerial classes, as well as how to co-create “ways of working” with the students to support their learning.
