Ana Prada’s career has been up in the air for nearly two decades, and that’s just the way she wants it. She began studying ballet at age 11 in her native Colombia before moving to New York City at age ...

Instructor: Gala Orba, of Boulder, who has been doing aerial silk dancing since 2009. She was trained at the Boulder Circus Center’s AirCat Aerial Arts program, and she has attended the Frequent ...

LITTLE ROCK — In the monochromatic, warehouse gym setting of west Little Rock’s Absolute Athlete - surrounded by black mats, dark dumbbells and gunmetal weight plates - the 30-foot-long, floor ...

The Greek dancer Katerina Soldatou spreads out a 16-meter-long silk in front of spectacular sights such as the Canal of Corinth to perform her choreographies at breathtaking heights.

Aditi Deshpande, a national champion in rope mallakhamb who is also trained in aerial silk, tells Rinky Kumar about the health benefits of swinging from a cloth and reveals why this form of acrobatics ...

It’s common for dance companies to collaborate. What’s fantastically uncommon is for two companies to train together so methodically for six months that discerning which dancers originated with which ...

No one at the nineteenth International Aerial Dance Festival seems to be afraid of heights. At Frequent Flyers’ Boulder studio, dancers dangle from an arm wrapped in swaths of fabric or hang upside ...

Anna Belle is a ragamuffin wanderlust pixie who left the “real world” at the tender age of 20 to join the circus as a storyteller and street performer. She took her first silks class in exchange for ...

SINGAPORE: When physicist Isaac Newton discovered gravity, his eureka moment came as he was sitting in a garden, observing an apple fall. In the case of National University of Singapore scientist ...

For aerial arts enthusiasts — spectators and practitioners alike — the local scene is soaring, from a festival this month to classes for all skill levels. ”There’s a rush — and a fear,” says aerial ...