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What do you love about aerial arts?
I started aerials at a time in my life when I wanted and needed change. What I love most about aerial arts is my relationship with the creative expression and the ability to change it depending on what is happening in my life. I find it very appealing that aerial arts can coexist and relate with everything else that I do day to day. The first photo in this post is from my first aerial performance. This performance really emulated my life and helped me to harness and conquer positives and negatives I was facing. Compare that to the second photo taken last month. I can literally feel the emotions coming through in each photo and feel what I felt at those exact moments. To me aerials is so potent and truthful, it has become a part of who I am and I can’t imagine not having it in my life.

What are you currently working on?
I’m about to start working on specialized strength training to improve aerial performance. I feel I’m at a point where I want to really clean up my movements and go through the air as if gravity didn’t exist. A girl can dream and I’m ready to work for those dreams!

How did you get interested in aerial arts?
How I became interested was seeing a troupe from NYC perform both silks and lyra at Burning Man in 2008, hanging form a 60 ft dome. I especially was mesmerized by the red silks, there were 5 performers in sync, and I immediately knew that I wanted to do that! This actually led to the beginnings of AAofU, because when Annie and I came back to SLC we took lessons for a year with Julianna Hane at Revolve Aerial Dance, and then agreed to take over the business when she moved away after a year.

What do you love about aerial arts?
Its beautiful, athletic, skillful, creative, liberating and FUN!

How did you get interested in aerial arts?
In 5th-grade Aerial Arts of Utah came and performed at my school and I thought it looked super cool and fun which is how I learned about it.

What do you love about aerial arts?
What I love about aerial arts is how unique and interesting it is, and how you can learn to move and dance in super creative ways.

What do you love about aerial arts?
The thing I love about aerial arts is all the variety of shapes and moves and how everything is a little different. You can really make any move look as graceful or as edgy as you want. It’s just really dancey and cool.

What are you currently working on?
I just started working on a piece to enter in the Reflections contest which is a national, PTA-run arts competition, the theme this year is “Within Reach”. Also I’m always working on new things with the student performing company.

What do you love about aerial arts?
I don’t remember when aerial arts was first brought to my attention, but I’d been interested in it for years before I ended up trying it. I had taken a few single classes at different places, but a few years ago I was given a gift card to the studio. I took the intro class, and have been taking trapeze every session since.

What are you currently working on?
I have a background in dance, and played with rock climbing in college. Aerials feels like it is a perfect merger of the two, bringing strength and grace into one art form.

What do you love about aerial arts?
Learning new stuff. I just like to learn all of the things that they teach.

What are you currently working on?
I’m trying just to work on one apparatus: the hammock. I’ve never done it before so I want to work on it. It’s kinda fun because Nancy Carter and Diana Madrian teach me. I like doing the fairy move.

What do you love about aerial arts?
I saw Adriane Colvin, an instructor at Aerial Arts of Utah doing a performance at a festival and was inspired to try aerials immediately!

What are you currently working on?
There’s so much I get from aerials but a few

What do you love about aerial arts?
When I was very young I wanted to be a flying trapeze artist, although that calling eluded me later in life I found fire dancing and Aerial Arts. In 2009 one of best friends, who just happens to be my cousin and current Co-Owner of Aerial Arts of Utah, asked me if I wanted to take a class with her and two other friends. I hardly let her finish her sentence and agreed! Not long after that Julianna Hane sold Revolve Aerial Dance to Annie and Debbie and inside of a year I was teaching beginning silks with the newly formed Aerial Arts of Utah!

I am drawn to the relationship between grace and strength. I am inspired by the way the human body takes on a unique signature because of the absence of gravity in the way we usually experience movement. I love the flow that is created, especially on hammock as the perfect circle guides and supports me.

What are you currently working on?
I am working on a solo silks act, as well as an acro yoga duet for the Fringe Festival in August and a Duo Silks act for Aerial Arts of Utah’s annual show, “Flight of Fancy.”

How did you get interested in aerial arts?
I got interested in aerial in 2006. I saw a posting for a class with lovely evocative and vague language about flying and such. As a budding professional dancer and climbing gym manager (at that time), I thought that whatever aerial dance turned out to be, I wanted in! That class turned out to be fabrics, which is as good a place to start as any.

What do you love about aerial arts?
I love sussing out how things that appear to defy physics actually work. And I love being able to do things that not everyone can do. (Excuse a little vanity) I do like to be impressive.

What are you currently working on?
Currently I’m working on planning for AAUs summer programs, gathering games for the kids, coordinating instructors, sparking excitement for participants. Other current projects include Directing Student Performing Company’s first Fringe Fest show and reviving a single point trapeze piece for Body Logic Dance Festival in August.