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ADF Immersions, Classes, & Workshops

Aerial Dance Festival 2025: July 27 – August 8, 2025

A La Carte Registration OPEN NOW!

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ADF 2025 Immersion, Class, Workshop, Meet-Up Schedule

Schedule at a Glance
Class Descriptions + Prerequisites

WEEK A: July 28 – August 1, 2025

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

Tuesday, July 29th – 7:30-9:00 PM
Aerial Dance Festival & Circus Meet-Up:  Fire, Flow, Fun

Junkyard Social (2525 Frontier Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80301)

WEEK A WORKSHOP – $20 – Registration Open Soon!

Wednesday, July 30th – 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.

WEEK B: August 4 – August 8, 2025

WEEK B IMMERSIONS: Meet everyday from 9 am – noon, Monday-Friday. 

  • Bungee Dance & Build (All Levels) with Danielle Hendricks & Laurel Johnson / FFP1
  • Dance Trapeze (Intermediate) with Summer Lacy / Dairy
  • Silks Theory (Intermediate/Advanced) with Anastasia Timina / FFP2

WEEK B 90-MINUTE CLASSES: Meet everyday Monday-Friday.

1:00 – 2:30 PM

  • Split Fabric: Transitions & Tangles (Intermediate/Advanced) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP2
  • Heavy Metal Invented Apparatus (Intermediate) with Nancy Smith / FFP1
  • Choreographic Games (All Levels) with Issac Endo / Dairy

3:00 – 4:30 PM

  • Ecstatic Low Flow: Lyra & Dance Trapeze (Adv Beginner & Above) with Ariana Papousek / Dairy
  • Loops Lab: Sequencing & Choreography (Intermediate) with Casey Pottle / FFP2
  • Rope: From S to Z (but don’t forget C) (Adv Beginner & Above) with Sarah Dawn / FFP1

5:30 – 7:00 PM

  • Everything Peg Stilts (All Levels) with Valerie Morris & Danielle Hendricks / FFP2
  • Lyra: Smooth Maneuvers (Intermediate/Advanced) with Artoor Voskanian / FFP1
  • Sculpting Theatricality: Lights, Cameras, Actions (All Levels) with Issac Endo / Dairy

WEEK B MEET-UP – FREE

Tuesday, August 5th – 7:30-9:00 PM
Aerial Dance Festival & Circus Meet-Up:  Fire, Flow, Fun

Junkyard Social (2525 Frontier Ave Suite A, Boulder, CO 80301)

WEEK B WORKSHOP – $20 – Registration Open Soon!

Wednesday, August 6th – 7:45-9:15 PM

“Creativity Toolbox” with Nancy Smith

In this fun hands-on workshop, we’ll ponder and answer these ques%ons:

  • 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 inspira%on, as well as the beginnings of your personal toolbox!
    No movement or arts experience required, just a willingness to be open to explore.

ADF 2025 Class & Registration Information

Aerial Dance Festival FAQ

Locations

Week A and Week B classes, workshops, opening reception, and Intimate Encounters: Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Studios: 3022 E. Sterling Circle, #150, Boulder, CO 80301. “FFP 1” or “FFP 2”.

Week A and B classes plus the Showcase Performance are also at:  Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theatre: 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302. “Dairy Gordon Gamm”.

Housing Information

Frequent Flyers® Productions does not provide student housing. For additional information about other accommodations, visit the Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau. You may also visit the ADF 2025 Students, Performers, & Participants Facebook Group to network with other festival participants also looking for housing options. 

Transportation Information

Students should not schedule back-to-back classes between the Dairy and the Aerial Dance Studio, unless the student has a car / ride / bike. It is not walking distance. Boulder is bike-friendly and has a public bus system but isn’t quick to and from the Dairy to FFP on the bus.

Registration & Payment Instructions

Participants must be at least 12 years of age. An online liability waiver, photo release, and insurance form must be signed by each participant 18 or over, or by a legal guardian or parent if the student is under 18. 

***Students will be placed on the waiting list if a class is full at the time of registration.

Students must register for the full week-long class as material is contiguous. All Classes are ONE-WEEK and meet Monday – Friday.

IMPORTANT: For credit card payment and online registration: You will set up an “account” for Frequent Flyers payments at https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/adm/home.asp?studioid=12867.

PACKAGE REGISTRATION: To sign up for classes, after you have purchased your ADF package, please email office@frequentflyers.org with your class and immersion choices.

Please Note: Purchasing a Week A package with Bungee Dance will incur an additional charge of $10.00 to accommodate the extra price for equipment. Selecting a Package that includes Bungee Immersion constitutes an agreement to incur the additional charge. This charge will be assessed AFTER you purchase and check out for the base Package price.

Please review the refund policy carefully.

Refund Policy  

Switching classes after registering is not permitted, except by requesting a refund (if the date allows) and re-purchasing the new class at full price. Please read prerequisites and class descriptions carefully. 

  • 100% of the payment minus a $20 processing fee, is refundable through May 26, 2025. 
  • From May 27 through July 6, 50% of the payment, minus a $20 processing fee, is refundable.  
  • After July 6th there will be NO REFUNDS. 

NOTE: There are no make-up classes, wings, or account credits for cancellations

If you pay by check or money order, your refund will be made after the Festival finishes.

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  • Save the Date: Virtual ADF 2020

     

    We are thrilled to announce the dates for Virtual Aerial Dance Festival 2020!

    Workshops & Performance:

    August 2-7, 2020

    Please join us for the 22nd year of skill building, idea sharing, and inspiration in our craft – this time from our homes.

    Stay tuned for workshop descriptions and registration coming the 1st week of July!

    We will continue to keep you updated via Email, ADF 2020 Facebook event, and our Website.