1988 – First aerial dance classes taught by Nancy Smith in Boulder.
1989 – Primordial Urge: Parts I & II
2 site-specific performances: Boulder Public Library Park and Holiday Drive-In Theatre with multiple collaborators (musicians, heavy equipment operators, climbers, dancers and film).
1990 – Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc. received non-profit 501(c)3 designation.
1st performance of Theatre of the Vampires at Boulder Theatre with 3 shows selling out.
1991 – Concerto for Piano & Trapeze with world-renowned Jazz icon, Art Lande.
1992 – Frequent Flyers performs excerpts from Theatre of the Vampires in Boston for the Boston Aerial Dance Festival.
Private Acts in Public Places – A collaboration with CU’s Siebel Wolle Art Gallery with Paul Klite (composer) & photographer Dona Laurita is installed for 3 months at the Gallery.
1995 – Bytes in Flight – 1st project using new computer technology to create choreography, “Lifeforms,” with projected animated dancers and film.
1997 – Swing, Swing, Swing. Performance included excerpts of interviews with 15 WWII survivors (currently archived at Carnegie Library in Boulder) with performances at Macky Auditorium, including big band and singer. Award-winning show. Performed again in May, 1999.
1999 – 1st Aerial Dance Festival and gathering of the “lost-tribe”. Also, Theatre of the Vampires and Swing, Swing, Swing at Macky Auditorium. Birth of Aerial Sci-Arts: physics with the low-flying trapeze for kids program.
2001 – Kids Who Fly for at-risk youth is born. Also, Zero G and Counting, Aerial Dance Festival and Theatre of the Vampires produced by CU Presents.
2002 – Ratcracker comes to life: the zany spoof on the Nutcracker where the Rat King wins the battle and Clara goes to Rat World. Story by Kit Marcy. Also, performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Performing Arts Festival, Swing, Swang, Swung all new work at the Dairy and Aerial Dance Festival.
2005 – 1st performance for Cirque du Soleil on the side of their headquarters in Montreal. Also, two new shows: Dairy Air, Holiday Air Fare, plus Aerial Dance Festival 2005.
2006 – Carmina Burana performance in collaboration with 100 singers from Ars Nova at Macky Auditorium. Also, performance at Bahamas’ Paradise Resort and new show: SomeThings in the Air at the Dairy.
2008 – Tribute to Terry Sendgraff at the 10th anniversary of the Aerial Dance Festival and FFP’s 20th anniversary. Also, Comic Book Heroes with artist Scorpio Steel at the Dairy wows audiences, company tours to Eccles Center in Utah, and the publishing of the only history book on the art form: Aerial Dance by Jayne Bernasconi and Nancy Smith.
2010 – Opening of Frequent Flyers’ Aerial Dance Studio. Birth of the Student Company and Professional Training Program. Also, Aerial Dance Festival, Ratcracker with Student Company, and performance at CU’s NEXUS of Delicate Balance.
2013 – “Appalachian Spring” commissioned by Boulder Philharmonic and performed at Macky Auditorium with Boulder Ballet. Also, 15th Aerial Dance Festival and collaboration with David Clarkson / Stalker Theatre on Mapping, Scrooge’s Holiday Flight by Student Company, and new show by the Pro Co: Metamorphosis with Boulder Chorale and Kutandara.
2015 – Opening of Frequent Flyers’ 2nd Aerial Dance Studio. Performance of “Appalachian Spring” in Shreveport, Louisiana. 2nd performance for Cirque du Soleil on a 33-story building in Montreal, and new show: Star Sailors in collaboration with Fiske Planetarium.
2017 – Performance of “Appalachian Spring” with the Boulder Philharmonic at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., plus 2 shows in Boulder at Macky Auditorium with multiple curtain calls and standing ovation at all 3 shows. Plus, residency at Sweet Briar College, Aerial Dance Festival and new show: Aerial Street View with Block 1750 and Chimney Choir.
2018 – Frequent Flyers’ 30th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the Aerial Dance Festival. Plus, new show: Flight Path with Spinphony.
