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 ...

Tucked away in a back room of the Arrillaga Family Sports Center, the rock climbing wall exists, unbeknownst to many students. But for students in the aerial fabrics class, this rock wall is their ...

Fifteen minutes into my trial aerial silks lesson at Bumbershoot Aerial Arts, I am close to tears. Despite clear instructions from two compassionate teachers, I cannot get the hang of the first move: ...

I left Stanford last year to join a circus in Brazil. For ten hours a day I trained in a professional program and taught aerial fabrics to low-income youth in Rio’s favelas. I owe that year, in large ...

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 ...

A Baltimore gym is using aerial yoga to promote community wellness and fitness in the new year. Aerial yoga is a practice ...

It was back in 1994 on a family trip to Disney World when I saw my first Cirque du Soleil show. I was no more than 6 years old, and I was mesmerized by the acrobatic magic before me. With wide eyes, I ...

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 ...

Go ahead. Live out your fantasies and fly your way into strengthening and toning your body. The art of performing aerial acrobatics is no longer exclusive to the elite breed of circus performers.