Asking a woman how much she weighs is generally considered bad manners, but for an adult aerialist, even a woman weighing somewhere around 440 lb (200 kg) is probably well within the normal range. Of course, this is how you measure body weight: 1. Drop onto a scale from a…
When it comes to aerial competitions, there is value in simply taking part rather than in the result, and there is also value in the growth that comes through competing itself, including all the training leading up to the event. I am almost entirely of that view myself, and in the first place…
Watching the remarkably clear flow of an aerialist I respect, without a trace of physical noise in her movement, I began to notice something: the better someone is at aerial silks, the less often you can see them trying to control the fabric by force.…
Thinking through and building an aerial silks routine of your own is genuinely fun. It is a kind of creative play open only to those whose repertoire of tricks and expression has grown, and at the same time…
I wrote before about setting myself a quota not of successes or prize finishes, but of failures and eliminations. In reality, though, challenging something and being defeated hurts in a way that is no joke, and immediately afterward you may regret it enough to curse yourself for ever having…
I think some of the most important moments in your life, the ones that shaped who you are as a person, were moments when you did something for the first time.…
One of the well-known aerial studios in Los Angeles is Womack and Bowman — The Loft. The studio was founded by Brett Womack and Rachel Bowman, both of whom have performed professionally on stages around the world, including television, film, and large-scale live events.…
In A Study in Spin, I wrote about what spin in aerial silks is in the first place, and how it is created. In A Study in Spin 2, I wrote about what kinds of spin to choose in terms of composition and staging. When it comes to actually learning the technique, I would also recommend…