You could say Emily Jesse fell for aerial dance as soon as she tried it. “I kind of stumbled into it,” she laughs. “At the end of my first class, I was like, ‘How often can I be in here?’” Eight years ...

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 ...

CHELSEA (WABC) -- There's a new sport that involves aerial dancing through hoops dangling on ceilings. "I am pretty fearless," says Avaleen Blake, a newcomer to the workout. "I'll try anything." ...

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 ...

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 ...

STEVENS POINT - Not looking forward to putting in another hour on the treadmill? Another workout on the exercise machines not getting you excited to head to the gym? Sometimes a new way to stay fit, ...

Nancy Smith launched Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance in 1988, never knowing whether or not she’d one day be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. But here and now in 2018, Smith’s bright idea has become ...

The pandemic has motivated many folks to reevaluate the direction of their lives. While some have switched career paths entirely, others have taken on new hobbies or revisited subjects they once loved ...

Nancy Smith started the international Aerial Dance Festival in 1999 because she was “a little lonely.” She had founded Boulder’s Frequent Flyers aerial dance company about a decade prior. Back then, ...

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 ...

AscenDance is Gainesville’s professional performing company of aerial dance and circus acrobatics. The company, which is directed by founder Corey Souza, gives three performances this month. First, ...

The second week of Aerial Dance Festival classes run Monday through Friday and will meet at Frequent Flyers Studio or the University of Colorado. For more information ...