Location: Aerial Area

Description:

In this workshop, Kerri presents tools and exercises that help the aerialist discover new ways to move on their apparatus outside of technical skills. We will explore movement pathways, moving from different parts of the body, movement qualities, transitions, theatrical elements, musicality, dynamic movement, and connecting with yourself as an artist as well as your audience. This workshop is open to students on any apparatus.

Available: 7/8

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: Students must have at least 3-5 skills on their chosen apparatus that they can execute safely and easefully throughout the workshop. They don’t have to be high level skills - beginner skills are completely acceptable! Students must have the willingness and curiosity to step outside their comfort zone, look weird or awkward, experience vulnerability and try new things.

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