Aerial Flexibility and Beginner Contortion
Sunday, June 26, 1-3pm
$55
no experience necessary and open to VERY beginners as well as the advanced student
Pulling from the traditional Mongolian and Russian active stretching techniques, this workshop intensive will focus on leg flexibility; upper, mid and lower back flexibility; and inversions (head stands, elbow stands and/or handstands.) Along with flexibility, this class equally enforces the extreme importance of strength and stability, both physically and mentally, as a necessity to push past your flexibility limits.
with Guest Instructor Natalie Rhae:
After 17 years of competitive gymnastics, Natalie Rhae turned to the circus arts. With specialties in aerial, hand-to-hand/adagio and contortion, Natalie has performed on tours and with many circus troupes around the United States and Internationally. She studied under the famous Mongolian contortionist Serchmaa Byamba and currently studies the art of contortion and hand-balancing with Guinness World Record Breaker Leslie Tipton. Natalie has been coaching flexibility, contortion, gymnastics, tumbling, yoga, and pole for over 10 years.
No need to be an aerialist or pole student! This workshop will help everyone increase flexibility for dance, yoga, and life in general. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with one of the world’s best! You will leave this workshop feeling strong, stretched, and powerful.
Sunday, June 26, 1-3pm
$55 plus tax
Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility. Contortion acts often accompany acrobatics, circus acts, street performers and other live performing arts. Contortion acts are typically performed in front of a live audience. An act will showcase one or more artists performing a choreographed set of moves or poses, often to music, which require extremeflexibility. The physical flexibility required to perform such acts greatly exceeds that of the general population. It is the dramatic feats of seemingly inhuman flexibility that captivate audiences. In some countries such as Russia and Mongolia contortion holds special cultural significance.