Aerial Dance Festival

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Aerial Dance Festival 2018 – Celebrating our 20th anniversary Festival!

Join us in beautiful Boulder, CO – July 29-August 11, 2018

Sunday, July 29th – Opening reception

Monday, July 30th – Friday, August 3rd – Week A classes

Monday, July 30th – Intimate Encounters

August 3rd-5th – Showcase Performances

Monday, August 6th – Friday, August 10th – Week B classes

Saturday, August 11 – Reception honoring Bob Davidson and special performance

Come celebrate the 20th anniversary of bringing aerialists from around the globe to beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Skill building, idea sharing, inspiring, mind blowing gathering.

The faculty / artists have tremendous depth of knowledge in their craft.
Join the movement. Find your tribe.

The Aerial Dance Festival (ADF) is an opportunity for people from all walks of life to experience the joy of dancing in the air, for beginners through advanced aerial dancers. This 2-week immersion provides classes, lectures/demonstrations, informal discussions, networking, and performances.

“At ADF passionate people from around the world come to share and learn at the highest levels of our craft. As a teacher I’ve never had a better experience and as a student I treasured every class. Put it on your calendar, you’ll never take it off.” – Teo Spencer

Festival format:

3-hour morning immersions Monday – Friday each week. Plus afternoon / early evening “a la carte” 90-minute classes in a variety of aerial apparatus and approaches to working with apparatus taught by nationally recognized faculty. Students may attend one week or both.

2018 Festival Faculty:

Learn more about the ADF 2018 faculty

Alex Allan – Immersion: Connecting with the Floor & Air (Rope & Fabric); Dynamic Vocabulary on Rope & Fabric – Int/Adv; Rope Choreography – Int/Adv

Jayne Bernasconi – Aerial Choreography on Mixed Apparatus; Aerial Yoga; Low-Flying Trapeze Sequencing – Intermediate; Softly Swaying – Restorative Aerial Yoga. All Levels.

Megan Cattau – Immersion: Partnering on Dance Trapeze – Intermediate

Danielle Garrison – Sling: Sensation/Suspension/Falling/Making – Intermediate

Molly Graves – Immersion: Aerial Orienteering on Fabric: All who wander are not lost; Conditioning & Injury Prevention for Aerialists and Acrobats: Tools of the Trade; Fabric: Roll Reversal. Back Dives and Beyond – Advanced; Partnering in the Air

Mandy Hackman – Fabric Choreography for Mad Scientists – Int/ Adv

Danielle Hendricks – Immersion: Bungee Dance & Build

Valerie Morris – Rope and Harness – Tethered Dancing – All Levels

Susan Murphy – Immersion: The Body Poetic: Wedding Technique and Emotion in Aerial Dance; Utilizing Laban Movement Analysis in Aerial Choreography

Elsie Smith – Immersion: Aerial Orienteering on Fabric: All who wander are not lost; Lyra/Hoop: Exploring the Circle – Intermediate; Lyra/Hoop: Up, down and All Around – Int/Adv; Partnering in the Air; Sling: Technique and Artistry – Intermediate

Nancy Smith – Immersion: A.R.T. (Aerial Release Technique). Skinner Releasing Technique and Aerial Improvisation

Yuki Tsuji – Handstand intensive – all levels

Aerial Dance Festival 2018 Information

More Information on Faculty, Classes & Workshops
ADF 2018 Schedule at a Glance
More Information on Performances
Questions? Call 303-245-8272.

Festival Locations

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

Elite Dance Academy – 3005 Sterling Cir., Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301 (Across the street from Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance)

Week A only classes and Performance Showcase:

Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theatre: 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302 (“Dairy Arts Center – Gordon”)

Week B only classes:

University of Colorado, Boulder campus, Theatre & Dance Building. (“CU 150” – ground level and “CU 350” – 3rd floor)

Glenn P. Davis Scholarship

This scholarship will be awarded to one student for the Aerial Dance Festival 2018. It will cover up to $1,000 in class tuition during the two weeks, July 30 to August 10.

The scholarship application deadline has passed for 2018.

“We are proud to support the Festival and are so grateful for this opportunity to honor Glenn’s memory. We know that he is ‘forever soaring’ and would be thrilled by the success and excellence of the festival as we are.”

– The Davis Family

Saturday, August 11 Alumni Performance Application

Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance is producing an “adjudicated alumni performance” in conjunction with the Aerial Dance Festival 2018. The informal performance will be held August 11 at 2pm at Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Studios and will immediately follow a reception celebrating Bob Davidson, a pioneer of Aerial Dance.

Who is Eligible to Apply: Former Frequent Flyers’ professional company members, graduates of Frequent Flyers’ Professional Training Program, and graduates of the National Theatre Conservatory program who studied with Bob.

Deadline to apply: March 30, 2018. Decision for acceptance: April 15, 2018.

For more information on presentation guidelines and to submit an application, go here.