**Aerial Dance Festival registration is NOT required to attend evening workshops. All are welcome to join!**
Build It Together: Co-Creating Aerial Learning Environments
with Jackie Beth Shilcutt
Wednesday, July 30th – 7:45-9:15pm
at Frequent Flyers’ Studio
Price: $20
Ages: 14+
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.
Creativity Toolbox
with Frequent Flyers’ Founder/Artistic Director, Nancy Smith
Wednesday, August 6th – 7:45 – 9:15 pm
at Frequent Flyers’ Studio
Price: $20
Ages: 13+
In this fun hands-on workshop, we’ll ponder and answer these questions:
– What is a toolbox for creativity and why have one?
– What is inspiration and where does it come from?
– What do you mean by creativity?
– What if I’m not creative?
We’ll work with tools for sourcing, changing perspective, thinking outside of the box, and getting unstuck! Everyone will leave feeling energized and more awake to the world inside and outside from which to draw inspiration, as well as the beginnings of your personal toolbox!
Prerequisites: No movement or arts experience required, just a willingness to be open and explore.
More about Jackie Beth:
Jackie Beth Shilcutt has performed, collaborated, and choreographed for various dance projects both stateside and internationally. Dr. Shilcutt is an assistant professor at Utah Tech University where she teaches aerial dance and is affiliate faculty at New Mexico State University. Jackie Beth’s choreography has been presented in venues from Texas to New York to Brazil and Kenya. Her research focuses on implementing an Activist Approach to teaching in dance settings including university dance/aerial classes, after-school dance clubs for middle school youth, dance content courses for physical education teacher candidates, and community programming. She is also involved in Youth on the Move, a program originally funded through Paso del Norte Health Foundation geared towards engaging disengaged youth in physical activity.
More about Nancy:
Nancy Smith originally wanted to be an astronaut or a racecar driver and instead she became the founder & artistic director of Frequent Flyers® Productions since its inception in 1988 and the Aerial Dance Festival since 1999. She teaches Aerial Release Technique (A.R.T.) around the US. Her work with Frequent Flyers has been presented in Boston, Baltimore, California, Louisiana, Virginia, Montreal, Utah, the Bahamas, throughout Colorado, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She has received numerous awards including “Living Legend of Dance in Colorado” and “Women Who Light the Community” among others. She is Lecturer for CU Boulder’s Dance Dept. Ms. Smith also co-wrote the first book on the history / theory of Aerial Dance with Jayne Bernasconi.
