Location: Aerial Area

Description:

This workshop will help students understand the foundations of vertical theory starting with the 4 foundational wraps on vertical apparatus, how they connect with each other, how one wrap becomes another wrap, and how to use wrap theory in creative sequencing.  Although the takeaways from this workshop are about silks theory, rope students will leave with a new understanding of the embodiment of the wraps/theory as well.

Available: 4/8

Price: $65.00 Taxes waived

Required age: 15+ on the day of the activity

Notes: About the instructor: Kerri Kresinski, founder, director, and head coach at Sweet Retreats Mexico, is an aerialist, dancer, choreographer, and coach. She has been performing and teaching acrobatics, dance, and aerial arts for over 25 years. Her life’s work, as an artist and teacher, has been to develop and deepen her study of the body—physically, emotionally and spiritually. She is truly a unique performer, coach and mentor and her students’ biggest cheerleader. Kerri has always been the most passionate about movement. She has dedicated her life (since age 3) to studying movement arts including dance, theater, acting, music, circus acrobatics, flexibility, fitness science, personal training, and of course aerial arts. She has studied extensively and now teaches functional movement, aerial skills, acrobatics, dance, flexibility, and creative development as well as functional anatomy for aerialists and movers, and is passionate about helping people understand how their bodies work. She has also studied holistic health, herbalism, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, massage, and nutrition. Her professional career as a multi-disciplinary performer has brought her to shows and festivals all over the world. Kerri teaches her students how to own their practice going beyond teaching skills and sequences. Through encouraging a strong and committed movement Practice, she teaches how to identify, alter, link, and create skills and sequences, and how to fully embody the movement of each skill in a satisfying way. Kerri’s technical expertise comes from working with students of all kinds to figure out the best training for each individual.

Prerequisites: This workshop is for vertical aerial students at the intermediate and above level. Students should be able to execute the following skills in the air: hip key, thigh hitch (aka same side hip key), and catcher's lock. Students should have the ability to climb to the top throughout class, invert in the air throughout class, and have the endurance to do multiple skills in a row throughout class.

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