Jessica Eggen and her daughter Kelsey demonstrate partner tricks on the silks at Silk & Steel, 119 W. Milwaukee St., in ...

Donna DeVerniero celebrated her 62nd birthday earlier this month hanging upside down from a 20-foot silk cloth suspended from the ceiling. It’s this baby boomer’s way of running off and joining the ...

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 ...

Iowa City-based aerialist Mimi Ke teaches and performs in the Corridor, encouraging everyday Iowans to look at life from a ...

No one at the nineteenth International Aerial Dance Festival seems to be afraid of heights. At Frequent Flyers, the Boulder studio where dancers dangle from an arm wrapped in swathes of fabric or hang ...

Aerial silk performances are only seen by most people at concerts or theater shows. Nick Erickson, associate professor in the Theater department at LSU, is changing that for the Baton Rouge community.

It’s common for dance companies to collaborate. What’s fantastically uncommon is for two companies to train together so methodically for six months that discerning which dancers originated with which ...

A new dance and fitness studio has opened on the Isle of Wight. Jaydene Lee Paddock, 29, from Newport, officially opened the studio in October, at 52 Dodnor Lane. Friends, family, and both current and ...

Playing acrobat, doing the trapeze and being flexible on a pole, are getting city folks to stay fit in a fun way. Aerial workouts are providing a fin, new fitness challenge. Aditi Deshpande (seen here ...