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 ...

When my sons were toddlers, they loved to tumble on mats, flip over parallel bars and balance on beams at our local gymnastics studio. But by the time they went to elementary school, they didn’t know ...

“That is where we come from. We have opposable thumbs,” said Hilary McDaniel-Douglas, the artistic director of Project in Motion Aerial Dance Company. “Once we become adults, we really limit where we ...

TWIN FALLS • Autumn Robinson hung suspended in the air by her feet, only two swaths of black silk wrapped around her ankles keeping her from a long fall. Robinson lifted herself up, maneuvering ...

ONE month after Maricruz Hidalgo began hoisting herself up the two silk strands hanging from a steel rafter in an empty room behind the Budapest Café in San José, she now wraps her limbs in the cloths ...

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 ...

Have you ever wanted to join the circus? At ten years old, I found myself obsessed with aerial artists, circus clowns and acrobatics. One day, I was hanging out in my dad’s garage and in the corner I ...

FARGO — Alone in the studio at FM Aerial & Movement Arts, Yvette Reyes’ body takes shape in swirling movements up and down a polished pole. She has a funny way of making every wicked move seem easy.